Category: Toll Free Tips
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 that you really want to keep? Had it for a long time? Many people know it but not to many use it anymore? Or perhaps just your childhood area code (or parents number) but your parents moving near you and leaving the phone number area code? Well, no need [...]
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 [...]