Category: Small Business News
Web Based Business Phone Systems
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 PM EST
Amazines.com published an article called: “Web Based Business Phone Systems: What Do They Provide Besides Call Forwarding and Voicemail?” Very nice write up about the value of virtual PBX services to small business. The article focuses on Phone.com and our Virtual Office phone system. One clarification about the articles title: Yes, a Virtual PBX is, in [...]
Small Business Events
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 4:41 PM EST
By: Ari On Monday we wrote about the New York Times Small Business Summit. Yesterday I attended the NY Expo for Small Business at the Javits Convention Center. There have always been many shows for small business owners and entrepreneurs to choose from, but, perhaps these days there is more interest than in “regular” years. [...]
Virtual Office – Virtual Phone and Virtual Address
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 11:36 PM EST
At Phone.com we understand the benefit of appearing professional and having a business quality phone services even for the smallest home based business. We see the growth of our own Virtual Office service and the need so many small businesses have for a business phone number, a toll free number, extension transfers between partners and [...]
Reflections from the New York Times – Small Business Summit
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 12:29 AM EST
By: Ari Today I attended the Small Business Summit hosted by the New York Times and American Express. IMHO, the event was a great success. A packed house, great speakers and panel discussions as well as many networking opportunities for any entrepreneur. The lunch keynote guest was Gary Hirshberg, Founder / CEO of Stonyfield Farm [...]
Free publicity for your small business
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 11:03 AM EST
By: Ari Last night I participated in a great event for small business owners in NYC. Ramon ray hosted this event at the “Samsung Experience”, Samsung’s great showcase store at the Time Warner Building in Manhattan. The event was moderated by Robert Levin, the Publisher of the New York Report and addressed some fundamental questions [...]
We all want fast computer boot time – we may be getting it!
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 at 8:38 PM EST
By: Ari We all know how frustrating it is to wait for our PCs to boot / reboot and sometimes reboot again and again… Well, according to a New York Times article published today this might be changing really soon. The article actually describes what we all suffer from: how we entertain ourselves in the 2-3-4-5-6 [...]
Bad times can be good for small business!
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 PM EST
By: Ari I came across an interesting ViewPoint in Business Week yesterday: titled “The Crisis May Be a Boon for Some Small Businesses”. The author Gene Marks has some straight forward comments and tips such as: 1) In bad financial times your bank will suddenly be more interested in you (the small business) so try [...]
Using Phone.com Virtual Office as a PBX Backup
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 AM EST
By: Alon Cohen, EVP Phone.com I was recently invited to join an interesting forum for Small – Medium Business IT professionals in NY called “NY SMB IT Professionals Meetup Group” the group is organized by an entrepreneur called Mor Sela, and is meeting once a month at the PC Magazine offices in NYC. The July [...]
PBX Distribution During A Down Economy
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 PM EST
A Traditional old school IT manager or small office manager that has bestowed the authority to define the office new phone system, will go to the standard distribution channels for Avaya, Nortel, Mitel or Siemens, looking for a PBX or a Key system to fit his/her current office needs. In fact an experienced IT manager [...]
Show Me the Money!
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 11:20 PM EST
Using Software as a Service (SaaS) as your office Phone solution “Software as a service” (SaaS, typically pronounced Sass) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customers own computer, SaaS [...]