[Hidden-tech] $10/month 800 numbers

[Paul Stallman]

They work great, but you have to make sure that you basically rethink the
way you work and take phone calls based on the service some.  For instance,
you can set them up to follow you, meaning it will ring your office phone,
then cell phone, then home phone etc.  But in the times you don't want that
and you want it to just go to voicemail then you have to remember that you
have to go in and set it that way. More over you have to train your clients
to understand how your phone system works so that they don't instantly think
you are too busy to answer their phone calls if a automated message picks
up.

 

It's more of a philosophy thing than anything else.  I can't say I've hard
anything bad about any of them as a whole.  We used GotVMail for a while,
but now we just use cell phones only and use a service called YouMail.com
that put the voicemail into and email and also transcribes it.  Best of all
it's FREE as of right now.  This feature will change the way you work.  The
transcription isn't perfect, but it let's you know who called and what they
called about.  You see that almost instantly and then you can make a
decision if it's really important to call them back now, or if later is
fine.  And if the transcription isn't good enough, just listen to the
attached MP3 of the voicemail.  It basically gives you the iPhone visual
voicemail functionality on your desktop, or in my case my blackberry.  I
only listen to the messages I want without wading through all of the others.
And did I mention it's FREE.  (no, I don't work for YouMail.com).

 

 

Paul Stallman

Managing Director

paul at alias-solutions.com

413.364.6147

alias|solutions

www.alias-solutions.com

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of andrew
bellak
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:43 PM
To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: [Hidden-tech] $10/month 800 numbers

 

Anyone have experience with these $10 / month 800 number services that can
then be set up to have recorded messages to say "press 1 for Andrew" and
then it forwards to whatever number you program it to?

I think it's also a nice feature when it sends you an e-mail alerting you
that you have a message (or had a call.)

Thanks,
Andrew

Andrew Bellak
Registered Investment Advisor - SRI specialist
andrew at StakeholdersCapital.com
(m) 646-552-5783

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