Monthly Archives: July 2009
More happy customers
Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 6:54 PM EST
We always like to hear from our customers and we love it when they love our service. You can read what customers are saying about Phone.com here. Today I want to point out three new reviews we noticed on an independant review site. Here is what they said: Brent Ferris July 31, 2009 – 15:37 [...]
Toll Free Tips: How to use your cell phone for business but not be bothered when you want private time?
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 10:56 AM EST
So many of us use the same cell phone for business and also for private use. However we dont want to always be bothered with business related calls when we are not working (evenings and weekends may be obvious but also vacation time, day off etc). Yes we have caller ID but the phone still [...]
My Friend’s First Baseball Game!
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 at 10:09 PM EST
So a friend of mine (from overseas) went to the Yankees game this afternoon against the Orioles – first time at a ball-park (actually its a Stadium). Here is how he summarized the game (word for word from the email he just sent me): “at the last inning the Y lead by 4 points I [...]
Toll Free Tips: How do your overseas customers or clients call you?
Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 12:41 PM EST
If you are a small business with customers, clients, partners or vendors in other countries how easy do you make it for them to reach you by phone? Do they have to dial those confusing international numbers? is it 011 or 001 or something else? perhaps they were told to use the plus ( + [...]
Toll Free Tips: I have 4 sales associates how can I have them all get calls from our main company number?
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 2:19 PM EST
Are you a small business with say 3-4 sales associates that are on the road a lot? Most likely each associate has a cell phone where they get business calls as well as personal calls. What happens when a prospect client calls your main office number? (perhaps the “office” is your home or your cell [...]
Virtual Phone Service: The Benefits of Having Multiple Lines Ring to One Virtual Phone Number
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 at 5:05 PM EST
Are you moving, changing offices or relocating to a new city? Phone.com has the answer to unify all your phone numbers: a virtual number. No longer will you have to miss a call that rings to your office number when you’re at home. Say “goodbye” to sending emails to your staff letting them know what [...]
Twitter for small business
Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 12:39 PM EST
The Wall Street Journal has its Small Business supplement today. Good read anytime they have it. You can also follow them online. I just want to point out to the story Raymund Flandez had about twitter today and some new Twitter applications that can be useful for small business. Phone.com started using Twitter not so [...]
Toll Free Tips: Call Blasts (we call them chatcalls)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 at 10:46 AM EST
Here is a real life example I came across last week. This one is a personal (as opposed to a business scenario but you will see what i mean). One of our customers was expecting a baby. As so many of us have done he got a list of phone numbers so that he can [...]
Why do I need a Phone.com Virtual Number? Protecting your privacy is one thing you might want to consider.
Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 7:38 PM EST
By: Alon Most people use Phone.com Virtual Number because it is a simple way to add useful and cool features to any phone number. Some of us use them for the basic ability to setup call forwarding to other number, others like to receive voicemails from all their numbers at one voicemail box. Many people [...]
Toll Free Tips: How to call anyone, anywhere and from any phone but appear to them as if you called from your “regular” phone number?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 PM EST
Say your phone number is 222-333-4444 and all your contacts know that is your phone number. But what if you are not next to your phone? Or, worse what if you are at the beach but need to call your important client who thinks you are in your office working on his/her project? With a [...]