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As a business owner, you take important phone calls at the office. But you’re not always in the office. You’re meeting clients, attending events, and ducking out for lunch at school with the kids. So what do you do when an important call comes in on your business phone system but you’re not there to take it? Believe it or not, business owners have plenty of options in this situation. Most offices have a landline, and most business owners or managers have a smartphone. You can easily connect the two to create a simple system that keeps you reachable no matter where you are. Having a landline at home might seem outdated now. More than half of Americans have switched to wireless-only households, and that trend is still growing. As you might guess, most people who still have landlines at home are older and often empty-nesters. Interestingly, many boomerang kids …

Whether you’re running a non-profit reaching out to donors or a small business owner sharing a promotion, phone calls are still one of the best ways to connect. Emails and texts can be ignored, but a phone call helps you build a personal connection. However, that can only happen if your potential connection picks up the phone in the first place. If you notice that the donors you’re contacting aren’t answering, perhaps your phone number comes up as potential spam. This could explain why your calls are not going through. The situation has gotten worse over the past few years, and some phone providers are trying to help customers by flagging potential spam calls. Unfortunately, many innocent businesses get caught up in the spam warning system. What triggers a number to be flagged in the “scam likely” category? How can you avoid this? We’ll answer these questions and provide you …

Entrepreneurs have a lot of questions on their minds, especially when starting out or scaling up. How will I make payroll? How do I advertise my business? Is my product properly positioned in the market? Even, what’s the best phone system for my business? We’ve been entrepreneurs a long time, and we’d like to help answer some of those. Check out our blog for some great tips for new business owners to help solve the first three questions and others about getting started in business. And as far as phone systems go, well, that’s our business, so we can certainly get you started off on the right foot there, too. We think simple, fast, and easy solutions are the best solutions for entrepreneurs. So we believe that the best business phone system is not a particular make, model, or brand. The best one is the one that works consistently. On …