Telecommunications
Create a Free Business Phone Line with Google Voice and Gmail Chat
Submitted by jason on Wed, 2010-09-22 23:55I just wrote an article recently on how to use a software called VoxOx to create a free business phone line, and someone from Google must have read my article. Just recently, Google released a new feature within their Gmail Free E-mail service that allows you to make calls out, as well as receive them on your Google Voice phone number. I predicted that they were working on something like this since they had acquired the Gizmo5 service. It looks like I still have my market awareness and will continue to keep watching for cool things like this to report on. Learn how to set this up after the jump. It isn't really that difficult, but I figured I would let everyone in on this in case you didn't know. It is much easier to setup and obviously integrates much better with Google Voice than the VoxOx program.
Create a Free Business Phone Line on Your Computer with Google Voice and VoxOx
Submitted by jason on Tue, 2010-08-03 22:46So, I am still in the process of getting all my small business ducks in a row, and have yet to setup a dedicated business phone line. I know that a business phone line is a business expense that I can write off for my taxes, but I haven't seen the need for it quite yet and have been using my personal cell phone. The only problem with this method is that if I do end up on the phone for hours with clients, I end up burning up a ton of my minutes each month. Recently I have been feeling the burn off of these minutes as business has been picking up. Instead of having rollover minutes at the end of the month, I am burning through months of saved minutes. Luckily some cell phone companies allow you to rollover your minutes or I would probably be stuck with some menacing cell phone bills!
