2014-02-12



Wouldn’t it be great if you could take business calls no matter where you are — whether you’re in the office, or a thousand miles away? How would it change your life if you, or any of your employees, could have calls forwarded from their office phones to their mobile phones with minimum hassle and expense? Would you love to have your business faxes and voice mails emailed to you? Would you like to make international calls for a fraction of what you’re paying your traditional phone service provider?

With a Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, phone service, you can. A VoIP customer centered digital phone service can slash your business’s telecommunications costs while improving your efficiency and giving you unprecedented communications flexibility. Calls you make over a VoIP phone service travel as data on the Internet, just like your emails, making it cheaper and easier than ever to make and receive international calls, forward calls and more. Technological advances have made VoIP services just as reliable as traditional landline telephone systems, for a fraction of the cost.

Take Your Telephone System Anywhere

When you use a VoIP phone service for your business, you’re not tied down to one landline telephone system. Because your telephone calls, faxes and voice mail messages travel over the Internet, you can take your phone system wherever there’s an Internet connection. You’ll no longer have to worry about customers or employees being unable to reach you when you go out of town. They can just call your regular office phone number. You can place or receive calls from your laptop, tablet or other Web-capable device.

Make Call Forwarding Easy

What if you’re not online to receive the calls placed to your VoIP business phone line? That’s no problem — VoIP phone services let you forward your calls to any phone, even a mobile phone. That means employees and customers can reach you at your mobile number, but you don’t have to give out your private cell phone number.

Your employees can take advantage of this feature, too. VoIP makes it easy for anyone in the office to have calls to his or her extension forwarded to the number of his or her choice. VoIP phone services offer auto-attendant features that can direct incoming calls to the right departments and employees, eliminating the need to hire a receptionist.

Receive Faxes and Voice Mails in Your Email Inbox

Wouldn’t it be nice to have all your messages in one place? When you switch your business over to a VoIP service, you can have all your voice mails and faxes forwarded to your email inbox, where they’re easy to keep track of, archive and forward to others.

In fact, with VoIP, your business can do away with fax machines altogether. VoIP services allow you and your employees to send and receive faxes online, without the need for paper, toner or a fax machine.

Choose Your Own Phone Number

Traditional landline telephone services won’t let you use a California area code if your business is in, say, Vermont, but with VoIP, you can register virtual phone numbers in any area code you want. Why would you want to do that, you ask?  If you have or want a large customer base in another area code, having a business phone number in that area code would make it easier for your customers to get in touch with you.

Maybe you want to reach customers with a vanity phone number that’s easy to remember. VoIP phone service providers can give you a toll-free vanity number for a fraction of the price of traditional service providers.

Make More Affordable International Calls

International calls with traditional phone service providers are pricey. If your business makes a lot of international calls you need a VoIP service provider. International calls over VoIP cost a fraction of the price of international calls over traditional telephone lines.

Whether you work alone from your home office, run a small business with a small staff or a large company with many hundreds of employees, a VoIP phone system can work for you. You’ll be amazed at the amount of money you’ll save when you switch to a VoIP phone system, and at how much more control and flexibility you’ll have.

 

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