Virtual Phone Systems

Google Voice – An Opportunity for Small Business Owners

June 25, 2009
Google Voice Logo

If you have an offline business, the primary goal of your website is probably to attract new local customers to your door. But how do you track the effectiveness of your website? Sure you can track the number of visitors to your website with free tools like Google Analytics and the new Google LBC Reporting [...]

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Building Small Business Websites With Thesis and WordPress

March 3, 2009
How to use Thesis for Small Business Websites

WordPress and Thesis are a powerful combination for building great websites. Some of the hottest blogs today are using Thesis, with new ones converting over every day. But did you know that you can use Thesis and WordPress to create highly effective small business websites that get great local search results too?

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RingCentral on the iPhone

November 7, 2008

RingCentral just released an iPhone application that gives you access to some of their services. The app is free, and you need to have a RingCentral account to use it. It allows you to use your iPhone to make calls, and to make your business phone number (i.e. RingCentral phone number) show in the caller [...]

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RingCentral Podcast Interview – RingMe And Call Tracking

October 15, 2008

Last week I was able to get Jay Blazensky, VP of Business Development at Ring Central on the phone for an interview. In the interview, Jay addresses common questions that I hear from small business owners like: What is a virtual phone system? What is a RingMe or Click-To-Call button, and how can it provide [...]

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Video Interview With RingCentral VP

October 11, 2008

I recently discovered a great new web site called TalkTech.tv. In a recent video on the site, Kristin White interviewed RingCentral’s VP Strategy, Praful Shah. The interview did a nice job of summarizing what a “virtual phone system” is, what RingCentral does, and how small business owners are using the service as a more flexible, [...]

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How To Get Your Website Visitors to Call You

September 21, 2008

How many visitors come to your small business website? Of those, how many take action and contact you, and how many simply leave? For small business owners who have a physical store front, usually the primary purpose of your website is to get potential customers to call or stop by your place of business. Many [...]

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An Introduction To Virtual Phone Systems

September 15, 2008

Small business owners, mobile professionals and people who work from home have more options than ever for communicating with customers and partners. New virtual phone systems like RingCentral and Phone.com provide some exciting new ways to project a professional image for small business owners like realtors, contractors and independent consultants. Buying a PBX is Old [...]

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