Monthly Archives: August 2009
It is conference season…
Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 5:28 PM EST
The summer is ending soon, kids will be going back to school after Labor Day but the conference season is starting sooner. This week we are in Los Angeles for ITEXPO, the industries largest gathering filled with exhibitors and 3 packed days of conference sessions and business networking. I will be speaking at the expo [...]
Toll Free Tips: Get your voicemails transcribed and read them from your email inbox
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 1:26 PM EST
Logging into to your voicemail inbox takes time and listening to voicemails take time. With Phone.com Voicemail service you can get your voicemails forwarded as an attachment to your email for easier reviewing but you can do better than that! With Phone.com Text Voicemail you can get your voicemails transcribed into text and then they [...]
Interview On Small Biz America radio
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 at 5:43 PM EST
Recently I was interviewed by David Wolf at Small Biz America. The interview is a nice summary of how the Voice over IP industry evolved and also about Phone.com, our business and how we got started. Worth a few minutes to check it out and also mark Small-Biz-America as a reference resource.
‘necessity’ entrepreneurship Vs. ‘opportunity’ entrepreneurship
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 PM EST
The New York Times Small Business section today had a very interesting story about entrepreneurship and how the economic downturn creates new entreprenuers. This is not new and in this blog we also addressed this in the past. The story, by Mickey Meece, quotes from the Kaufman Foundation: “Others among the unemployed are taking the [...]
Great customer testimonial
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 5:00 PM EST
At Phone.com we have a section on our website for customer testimonials (we call it: What People Are Saying). We get thank you emails from customers and some of them we ask permission to post. One of them came today from Mark Hanley and you can read it here. Thank you mark for your email [...]
Test your network VoIP performance
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 10:09 PM EST
If you want to add a VoIP phone to your service such as Phone.com Home Phone Plus or Phone.com Virtual Office but you are not sure if your home or small office broadband connection is strong enough to support good call quality you can now test your broadband (hi-speed internet) performance from our website by [...]
ITEXPO next month. The VoIP Industry is indeed growing!
Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 7:41 PM EST
Next month, between September 1 and 3, TMCNET will be hosting their annual ITEXPO West Conference & Expo. ITEXPO is most likely the largest conference dedicated to the developments in the VoIP industry. An industry that has grown from a small segment in the telecommunications space to a major contributer and an integral and essential [...]
New Case Studies Section
Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 11:42 AM EST
We updated our Case Studies section of our website – you can read about some of our customers and we will be adding more stories periodically. If you are a customer and think you have an interesting story to share please fill the “Send us your case study” page and we will consider posting it.
Toll Free Tips: How to speed dial your voicemail and call 3rd parties from your cell phone?
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 1:30 PM EST
All Phone.com customers can access their Inbox account from their phones. To do that you need to dial your Phone.com number (say it is 888.444.1212) and enter star [ * ] and then your extension number (say 122). You will then hear a prompt asking you to enter your password (say 12345) and then pound [...]
Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter – which one?
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 11:14 PM EST
This short post is intended for our customers who are still not so sure what to do with Facebook or Twitter and the rest of these social networks (or in our context, business networking and marketing tools). I read two interesting reports today, both on Techcrunch. The first indicated that Facebook actually grew twice as [...]