Comments on: Google Voice – An Opportunity for Small Business Owners

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:28:17 +0000

John – yes, you’re on the right track. It’s a good idea to use an area code for the city you want your listing in. Merry Christmas to you too!

By: Dolphin Swim Man

Dolphin Swim Man — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:26:18 +0000

Hi Don, I have a business in Fort Lauderdale, FL (954 area code) and want to have presence in Miami FL (305 area code). My plan was to get an UPS mail address in Miami and use Google Voice Number (305 area code) for a local number. Do you know if I create a Google Local Search account for Miami, will Google accept the 305 google voice number? Any suggestions?
Merry Christmas! John

By: Sam Aparicio

Sam Aparicio — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:52:26 +0000

Hi Don, there are a couple of core issues with using Google Voice for business. One is that it's hard to route a call to multiple people. Two is that it's hard to get more than one call at a time. It's for people like that that we developed Ringio.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:42:48 +0000

Hi Don – thanks for looking around. I did make the suggestion to GoogleVoice to accomodate phones with extensions and will hope for something in the future:)

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:25:41 +0000

Hi Jennifer,
I took a look around and it seems that Google voice does not support routing calls to a phone number + extension: http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115101
Sorry!

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:06:18 +0000

Hi Don
I am a high school secretary. I am trying to set up Google Voice to work with the digital phone at my workplace desk. I’d like to use Google Voice for making long distance calls and to text message staff and administrators (I dont use a mobile phone). I got stuck in the Set up process: I’ve selected a Google Voice phone number, but I don’t know how to specify the phone I want to ring (my phone extension) for the calls I make. I need to use our primary school phone number, but also my own 4 digit phone extension at my desk. Can you provide some guidance?

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By: Noel Mendes

Noel Mendes — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:56:57 +0000

I am just starting a new small service business with a partner. I was about to print out postcards for advertisement when i received the long awaited and nearly forgotten about invite from Google. This changes everything. Now instead of my partners cell phone number on an ad in thousands of homes, we will have the G.V. number instead. Were setting up a professional voice-mail greeting, both our phones get rung, can setup times the phone wont ring, and have it setup so when a customer calls, our caller Id. will display our G.V. number saved as our company name on our cell’s that way we know to answer the call with a professional greeting. The best part of all, it is totally free! What perfect timing. Hopefully our business will have success, and if it does, I will credit Google.

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:15:11 +0000

Hi Romilda,
Why don’t you just have your Google Voice number routed to your cell phone or landline, and turn off the “call presentation” option. Then when you forward your other phones it will ring your cell phone and you can enter the code?