Relevant to: Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, Productivity Freaks, One Man Businesses.
Read Time: 9 minutes.
Recent reader Zachary came to me looking for help and advice on how he could better adapt Google Voice for his business. Let’s look over how to use Google Voice, the pro’s and con’s for business and how to assess if it will work for you.
This is a very interesting point of view. Your blog is refreshing, but I wish one could find more content, though. I am looking forward to reading more from you. Keep up the good work. thanks.
Regarding the property manager in #3, what about just having your already established phone number forwarded to a google number?
Great idea John, a lot of people forget that it’s free to forward a landline or cell phone to another number most of the time.
Thanks for stopping by John, if you ever need some support, feel free to me a line.
I’m considering Google Voice to help me with my business. I’m looking for advice/assurance that this setup will work for me.
Right now I have a cell phone and a gmail account for personal use. I don’t have need to have anyone else call that number.
However, I pay about $22/mo to Bellsouth for a business phone number (not a line, just a local number that gets forwarded to voicemail service). I also have to pay about $20/mo to the voicemail service. I would like to eliminate that $40+/month if possible. Although it would be nice to keep the existing business number, it wouldn’t be a big deal to change it if necessary. It would be nice to make calls from my cell phone as if they came from the business number.
If all of the above is possible, then (for extra credit) help me consider if I could run a 2nd business (with a new number) in the same manner and keep them from all getting mixed up.
Thanks in advance!!!
Thanks Chad, from the sound of it, this seems completely doable! You’ll need to change that business number to do it for free though. Send me an e-mail and I’ll be glad to follow up.
I’m considering Google Voice to help me with my business. I’m looking for advice/assurance that this setup will work for me.
Right now I have a cell phone and a gmail account for personal use. I don’t have need to have anyone else call that number.
However, I pay about $22/mo to Bellsouth for a business phone number (not a line, just a local number that gets forwarded to voicemail service). I also have to pay about $20/mo to the voicemail service. I would like to eliminate that $40+/month if possible. Although it would be nice to keep the existing business number, it wouldn’t be a big deal to change it if necessary. It would be nice to make calls from my cell phone as if they came from the business number.
If all of the above is possible, then (for extra credit) help me consider if I could run a 2nd business (with a new number) in the same manner and keep them from all getting mixed up.
Thanks in advance!!!
Thanks Chad, from the sound of it, this seems completely doable! You’ll need to change that business number to do it for free though. Send me an e-mail and I’ll be glad to follow up.