Right Signature: Get Documents Signed Efficiently

Getting documents signed isn’t a sexy occupation, but Right Signature gives businesses the tools to get the task done quickly and easily. Get your contracts, NDAs, and really, any document you need, filled-out and signed much faster, with a legally binding e-signature. Take care of all your paperwork, “without the paper—or the work.” Getting Started You can start using Right Signature in about 60 seconds. Start with a free 14-day trial, and you don’t even have to provide a credit card for the trial. Try it out for a while and see how it works, but you will have a hard time finding any other provider that is as simple or user-friendly. Ease of Use FOR YOU: Compose any agreement, contract, release form, or otherwise, and store your documents in your account so that you can send them instantly and get them signed in minutes. Drag and drop fields to …

How to Port a Number from RingCentral to Talkroute

Looking to transfer your existing phone number out of RingCentral? Then you’ve come to the right place because this is the complete guide for porting your RingCentral number to Talkroute. The porting process can be lengthy and frustrating in some cases; however, it usually goes pretty smoothly as long as you complete the necessary steps, and RingCentral is one of the services that makes it relatively painless to port-out your number. Here is how to port your RingCentral number to Talkroute. 1. Prepare yourself beforehand by gathering your information. Before you get started, it’s good to put together all the information you have that is associated with your phone number. Start with your most recent phone bill, which you will need to send to your Talkroute porting agent for verification. (See #3 of this article) Then, call RingCentral, and ask them if they will send you a Customer Service Report …

Make Your Website Secure with Trust Guard

To make your website secure, there are three main problems to solve: Protecting your website against cyber attacks, making your customers comfortable enough to make an online purchase from your site, and complying with mandatory PCI standards. With 10 years of experience in web security, Trust Guard solves these problems for your site, and then some. Here’s what Trust Guard brings to the table: Cyber Attack Protection It’s estimated that roughly 37,000 websites are attacked every single day. This includes not only human hackers, but also automated hacking bots that are crawling the web 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, looking for weak points to gain entry into all kinds of sites. To fight back against cyber attacks, you need someone on your side who is equally relentless, which is why Trust Guard continually scans your website for malicious software, identifies them, and wipes them out. The result …

Pay Yourself While Growing Business

How to Pay Yourself While Growing Your Business

Business ownership is a hectic occupation. On top of all the expenses of daily operations, there is always something else that needs to be paid off or financed, such as a new business opportunity that, if you play your cards right, could end up bringing in more revenue, which you will use to fund your next venture, and so on… So what’s wrong with this picture? You’re bringing in money but not really keeping any of it, which kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? This doesn’t mean that you should stop putting money into your business; that’s not the point. The point is that it is possible to keep feeding your business while giving back to yourself. It just takes a conscious, deliberate effort to pull it off. This article offers a couple of suggestions that can not only promote the advancement of your business, but pay yourself at …

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How to Port a Number from Time Warner to Talkroute

If you’re porting your phone number to a new service provider, and your current provider happens to be Time Warner, then you’re in luck because they usually process port-outs in a timely manner. They also make it easy to access your phone bill on demand, which your Talkroute porting agent will need for verification. Here is how to successfully port your Time Warner number to Talkroute. 1. Prepare yourself beforehand by gathering your information. Before you get started, it’s good to put together all the information you have that is associated with your phone number. Start with your most recent phone bill, which you will need to send to your Talkroute porting agent for verification. (See #3 of this article) Then, call Time Warner, and ask them if they will send you a Customer Service Report (CSR), or a similar document that contains all the information they have on file …

Talkroute Blog Year in Review: Top Posts of 2016

We’ve laughed, we’ve cried… not really—this isn’t that kind of blog. We have covered a lot of ground though, exploring everything from market research, to optimizing your phone system. Over the past year, the goal was to focus our content on understanding how a virtual phone system works, what is involved with porting a phone number, and as always, providing support for startups and small businesses of all kinds. Here are the greatest hits of what we covered over the past year: The Market Research Process: A Fresh Perspective Your goal should be to uncover specific data that will truly help you establish whether your market is large enough to sustain your business, and the only way to do it is by learning as much as possible about the people who populate your market. Keep reading 4 Simple Steps to Reducing Your Carbon Footprint This is where “going green” moves …

Set the Perfect Ring Time for Your Office Phones

    One of the most common questions we get at Talkroute is, how long should we let our phones ring? And the real question behind this is, of course: How long will it take for our customers to hang up? The obvious answer is that the caller should have to wait for as few rings as possible before someone answers, but there are just a few factors to consider.   What should the caller hear while they are holding? Whatever your customer hears before you answer should keep them happy while they wait. You know when you call your phone company, you listen to the menu options, press “0” to speak to a person, and then you hear some elevator music and an occasional voice insisting that, “Your call is very important to us”–that whole thing? Then, all of a sudden, the elevator music stops and it starts to …

Promoting Your Business as Family Can Boost Sales

Many businesses could attract a great many more customers than they are, simply by telling their story. You may not think that your story matters much to customers, but in fact it can be just the element that causes them to choose you over your competitors. You can use points like how long your company has existed, positive things that other customers have said about you, and whether or not you are a family-run business, to sway new customers in your favor. What is considered a “family business”? Just as if you were building your résumé for a new employer, you can organize the facts in such a way that it portrays your business in a more attractive light, without ever telling untruths. Businesses have long understood that customers like to hear that they are a “family-owned & operated” company; and first of all, if your business is indeed exclusively …

3 Exceptional Stories of Small Business Success

There are thousands of new small businesses opening every day, and though it’s remarkable enough to start any new business, there are some that innovate beyond what is expected. The following are 3 outstanding stories of small businesses that adapted to the demands of the market, pushed through challenging economic times, and excelled despite their circumstances. Artistic Finishes, Inc. Our recent recession put strain on many industries, and the home construction industry was among those hit the hardest. One scrappy small business based out of Roseville, MN became a much larger business when they discovered that home builders had a need for pre-finished hardwood flooring. Builders were previously forced to go through two companies—one for the material, and one for the finish. Then the flooring fabricators were forced to retool and rethink their business when the housing bubble popped. Crippled by the crash, Artistic’s revenues were cut in half, from …

Shared Office Space

In a Shared Office Space, Get Your Own Phone Bill

    For most individuals and businesses, one thing you don’t usually worry about is getting the phone bill from your service provider. This is typically not an issue because they can furnish a bill for any phone number you own upon request, at any time. In most cases, you are the account holder, which means that the provider has no problem giving you a bill or CSR (Customer Service Report) for your number whenever you need it; however, there is an exception that makes obtaining your phone bill an unexpected challenge.   The Shared Office Space There is at least one case in which you will have a really hard time getting your phone bill, and that is when, though you are the one using your phone number, you are not the account holder for this number.   This happens when your business operates out of a shared office …