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Change your Business Perception with a Vanity Toll Free 800 Number
Monday, February 11th, 2013 at 2:59 PM EST
Perception is everything in business, but have you ever stopped to think how your phone number may be impacting your quality of service? A good example of what I mean is our friend Chris. Chris is a photographer… He has gigs across the U.S. but his local telephone number tells another story…It says, “I’m limited.” [...]
Getting Ready For NEMO Just Another North East Blizzard
Friday, February 8th, 2013 at 5:16 PM EST
I guess we need to get used to these blizzards now. In late October we were getting ready for Superstorm Sandy. Luckily Nemo is nothing like it. We at Phone.com just wanted to let all our customers that we are ready and to remind you that if your local phone service is disrupted you can [...]
America Calling
Friday, February 8th, 2013 at 4:48 PM EST
By Stuart Zipper Most Americans have, by now, gotten pretty used to unlimited domestic long distance. Most cellular users have likewise seen the dreaded “roaming” charges disappear, as long as you don’t leave the borders of the U.S.A. But there are some of us who have family, particularly kids or parents, who do live [...]
Small Business News
Your Virtual Office: its anywhere you want it to be!
Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 2:21 PM EST
Laura Petrecca at USAToday had a great story today about how many small businesses can set up their office anywhere they want. Much depends on what your business is but the idea is all the same: with todays technology entrepreneurs, sole proprietors and other small business owners can work from home or from where ever [...]
The Bright Side of Entrepreneurship
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 at 10:23 PM EST
I just read this blog post by Jay Goltz in the NYT online small business section. This is a simple write-up about such a basic principal in business (perhaps especially small business): how important it is to hire good people, and more important, to take care of them! the conclusion is in the header of [...]
It Could Not Be Done (or: Just Do It!)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 5:36 PM EST
It Couldn’t Be Done Edgar Guest Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But, he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. [...]
Services/Features
Caller Analytics- Break down and analyze calls to your Phone.com numbers
Friday, December 14th, 2012 at 8:48 AM EST
Recently Phone.com added Caller Analytics as a feature for our customers. This is an entirely new way of looking at data with insight into your customers age, gender, education and income level. This data can be broken down by time or date range and you can view the traffic in terms of technology used, landline [...]
Employees Can Use Their Cell Phones For Work But Let Them Go Off The Clock
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 at 2:56 PM EST
One of the great features of Phone.com is their Call Forwarding but almost as important is the Scheduling of when calls can and can not be received on a cell phone. It’s more or less expected these days, at least in the circles I hang out in that an employee uses their cell phone to [...]
Phone.com Announces New Service Enhancements for Business Entrepreneurs
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 at 12:42 PM EST
Call Recording and group text messaging help small businesses compete with larger organizations. Livingston, NJ (PRWEB) November 17, 2011, Phone.com, a provider of cloud-based phone services, today announced the addition of two new features to its already robust suite of functionality – call recording and group text messaging. Phone.com has excelled at providing Voice over [...]
News
VoIP Follies At The Consumer Electronics Show
Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 7:15 AM EST
It’s hard for the average person to make much sense of the flood of news and pseudo-news flowing from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas each January, and this year has proven to be no exception. For those interested in VoIP phone service there’s the usual flock of new IP phones, a [...]
Win A Fran Tarkenton Signed Football
Monday, January 2nd, 2012 at 2:21 PM EST
For anybody who’s not a Phone.com customer yet, this is your time to take the leap especially if you’re a fan of football. Fran Tarkenton, legendary football star and also a spokesperson for us has signed a few dozen footballs to be given away to 1 new person/company per week that signs up for service. [...]
The best of …
Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 10:46 AM EST
So many predictions for 2012 and so many summaries of 2011 – so here is another summary of the summaries: TheStreet: The Best Tech Stories of 2011 The Wondrous: Top 20 Anticipated Tech Products Concepts 2012 CNN: The Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012 Engadget: Tech’s biggest misfires of 2011 Techcrunch: The top [...]
General
Speaking Next Week in a VoIP seminar In Austin during ITEXPO
Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 1:14 PM EST
Next week Phone.com is sponsoring as well as participating in the SIP Trunking-Unified Communications Seminar held in Austin, Texas in conjunction with the ITEXPO. 2 of my esteemed colleagues will be speaking at the seminar. Joel Maloff our VP of Channel Development and he is currently an Adjunct Faculty Member at Colorado Technical University along [...]
Voicemail Doesn’t Have To Be Lost To The Ages
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 at 6:29 PM EST
By: Jeb I was emailed a link to an article titled “Voice mail in decline with rise of text, loss of patience”. Here’s my comment… AND? Is this news? No way, most everyone I know tends not to leave voicemail any more. I can’t remember the last time I left a VM for somebody. Some [...]
International Long Distance and VoIP
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012 at 7:39 AM EST
By: Ari I just read a post by Gary Kim siting Skype CEO and stating that Skype accounts for 33% of all International Long Distance phone call traffic. !45 billion minutes out of 438 billion in 2011. Skype of course is a VoIP (voice over IP or internet telephony) provider. I have been following [...]
Toll Free Tips
Business Phone Tips: Take the Hassle out of Conferencing
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at 11:37 PM EST
Have you ever been late for a conference call because you couldn’t figure out how to get the conferencing feature on your phone to work? Have you ever been in the middle of an important conference call and lost the connection? Conference calls can be a nightmare without the proper equipment. Any professional who spends [...]
10 Ways Your Phone System can Change Your Business
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 5:14 PM EST
You’re famous among the people you know for making the best peanut butter cookies in the tri-state area. “You should sell these,” someone suggests and you decide they’re right. Your baking operation starts out small in your home, so you don’t have the advantage the bigger cookie-making companies have. You create and maintain your own [...]
Using Your Home Phone as Your Business Phone
Friday, November 27th, 2009 at 4:09 PM EST
There are many benefits to running a business from home – you don’t have to battle early morning traffic, your wardrobe is not a focal point, you have 24/7 access to your office materials and resources in the comfort of your home, and you can save a ton of money by not paying to rent [...]