Category: 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 significant time [...]

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 [...]

Call recording with Phone.com

Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 12:44 PM EST

Many times when you are on the phone you find the need to record your call. Perhaps it is an important conversation that you want to keep for future reference or perhaps you just can not write something down (because you are in the car, or just in a loud place) and ask the calling [...]

The Process for Transferring your Phone Number

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 2:19 AM EST

At Phone.com we deal a lot with phone number transfers (or Local Number Porting – LNP – as it is called). Many of our customers who want to keep their existing phone number (whether it is their home phone number or cell phone number) but want to enjoy all the benefits of the Phone.com service [...]

Caller ID Tips – from a customer

Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 1:42 PM EST

Below is a copy of post to the Phone.com Forum from one of our customers named Trey:
I just wanted to share some tips that I have found extremely useful:
One of our options when clients call our number is to press 9 for the emergency line. I have set up our system so that the emergency [...]

The Benefits of Transferring Your Existing Home Phone Number with Phone.com

Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 11:47 AM EST

To follow up on our earlier post. Once you’ve transferred your existing home phone number, you can customize your new system to meet your individual needs. Your home phone system can now:
- Allow you to effectively run your  business from home and provide an improved professional sound it may have been lacking
- Direct your calls [...]

What Getting an 800 Number Can Do for Your Small Business

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 4:27 PM EST

Small businesses that make the choice to purchase an 800 number receive countless benefits. Everyone in the business is able to continue using their existing mobile devices or land line phones, but they are now all connected by the same new number. In addition, an 800 number for your small business will allow you to [...]

Toll Free Tips: Handset barely stays on hook

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 10:37 AM EST

The Polycom business phones we sell with our virtual office service are some of the best IP phones in the market. One complaint we got from a cfew customers is simply that the “…handset barely stays on hook, falls off constantly, needs a deeper well to hold it in tight”.
Well: If you feel your [...]

With Phone.com Virtual Number Service You Can Keep Your Existing Phone Number!

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 10:50 PM EST

Phone.com Virtual Number is one of the simplest and no brain phone services in the market. Get a new phone number (any area code in the US) or keep your own number (cell phone or home phone) by transferring it to Phone.com. Now you can set up your phone service from your private online control [...]

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 get [...]

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 [...]

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 don’t 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 call [...]

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 Phone.com [...]

Toll Free Tips: How to keep a phone number without a phone line?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 5:08 PM EST

Do you have a phone number you really want to keep? Have you had it for a long time? Or, do quite a few people know your number but many of them don’t use it anymore?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, we have great news for you. There’s no need to [...]

Toll Free Tips: It is ok to start your small business by accident

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 11:15 PM EST

Just started a business “on the side” or as a hobby and not sure where it is heading or whether you should continue? Continue! Your passion is certainly there. It may just grow into your main source of income or your life long dream business!
Warrillow & Co. published interesting data in their latest newsletter. [...]

Toll Free Tips: hide your cell phone number but still have people reach you on it!

Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 12:08 PM EST

Did you ever have a situation where you wanted someone to call you on your cell but did not really want to give out your number so as not to be bothered in the evenings or over the weekends etc?
With a Phone.com Virtual Number you can keep your cell phone number private and still [...]

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