With a little forethought and a time investment (hours not days), you can virtually eliminate an expensive and confusing phone system when you struggle or expose yourself to financial constraints due to the purchase of a smb.
If you’re paying Ma-bell for a traditional phone line, or confusing your pbx switch at a location, you’re not making the most of today’s phone technology. In fact, you’re wasting valuable time and money on a system that doesn’t meet your needs and takes away revenue.
Maybe you’re paying a full-time employee for nothing more than a “phone system”, or worse, hoarding. The responsibility is based on an additional part-time job for an employee who could otherwise focus on their job.
You can now join the quarter of a million other home subscribers of the Magic Jack community. Now it’s time to see how this can be applied to your small or medium business.
There are links to Magic Jack reviews included in this article, but in summary:
Features:
- Cheap, costs include $40 for device and first year of phone service, $19.95/yr after that
- A USB device (as in a thumb drive-storage) carries its own installed programs and installations in the USB slot
- You can either make calls using a headset/mic or a traditional phone (cordless phones & mobile devices
- It happens when you want to send a “voicemail” to some email
- email notifications to you when new VMs arrive
- Although it is not traditional phone with 911 911 where you control the email, so you can set 911 for anyone instead of in the US (got a sick mother?
- Nationwide tax is included and international can be had for the price or…
- Send Magic Jack to whoever you want to call and whoever you want to call YOU and free the WORLD!
- You can change your current landline phone number, maybe not your cell phone number, or a new phone number*
- This all depends on the broadband connection (I always recommend Cable, NOT DSL), and the computer/laptop.
UNFEATURES
- Call quality (QoS) is similar to cell phone, in terms of both sound quality and dropped calls.< / li>
- Customer service is basically their FAQ online and this is about it.
- The device is larger than other USB devices, but it has a dongle to get the way from other USB plugs
- One yank on the phone cord and “POP”! It comes from MJ
- A limited area phone number means a long distance number in some areas
- Using the MJ program online or over the phone can be confusing
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* “Local” phone numbers are not always called local for your city, e.g. in Montana the only number they have are local to Helena, great if you live in the city, not so much in the rest of the state.
A savvy entrepreneur has already seen some openings with the above list of cutting costs. Let’s take a look at a few ways you can make the most of this new technology for your business.
We’ve just seen the tip of the iceberg, but here are some cost-effective uses;
HARDWARE
- Connect your home & Employment services
- Virtual Office employee(s) and VAs
- Key Customer and teleconference training
- Anyone travel to your company
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EXPLANATION
- Fax
- Small pbx like features
- Integration with other virtual PBX systems
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First, Hardware solutions.
Just getting a Magic Jack machine for $40. you can save tons on the most common phone bill.1 – Join the house & amp; work services, buy an MJ machine for home and work, for any commuter. After the initial $40 you have 1 year of continuous calling from work to home etc. try sending a call thru a virtual pbx
2 – By virtue of the employment contract or VAs you contract with you can now make voice contact with anyone . cost them if you simply buy the device from MJ, to you if you ask for it at the end of the contract or pay them back for a job well done.
3 – Key customer care and teleconferencing or training Covers many areas but is essentially a repeat of the above, for a nominal $40 charge, you can ensure key customers and business partners remain connected yet at no cost. them It’s so easy to use you won’t actually have to go through the technical manual to start calling you. If you host training via phone/online via .rdp links etc. Especially if you will have ongoing training with this client. Again, you can choose to give them a gift. $40 isn’t much when you consider the price of other training materials.
4 – Friendly Road Warriors Having spent half my life on the road, I can tell you that if I were doing this type of work right now, I wouldn’t even buy MJ. thinking I can call “Local” to my home or US State when I’m on the board for over a year for a $20 deposit. Just imagine, getting into the hotel, late night, and you just want to touch base with your home or office, now in You plug MJ into your laptop and before you can roll out the baby smegma bar, you’re ready to make house calls or receive a FREE quote minus the $20 initial fee 😉
If you are already paying for cell phones travelers, you may be able to drop some of the first moments. by simply buying MJ, or better yet, give MJ to them for personal calls and encourage strict business only calls on the cell phone wiht no excuses for wasted minutes chatting with family etc.Now this is the only thing you can do from pretty much buying MJ devices for everyone, now let’s explain some of the cool things that can be done on the home use/performance side:
1 – FAX Although it is not officially supported, however, with the key word “YET”, faxing can be done from anywhere again so that a local call does not have to be special, just plug and send. Again, you should consider integrating a virtual pbx system for a smoother operation especially if you want to offer fax back capability.
2 – Private Branch Exchange (private phone) although far from the PBX or virtual PBX system, the magic branch will allow 3-way calling and receiving voice mails. When you have an MJ phone number you can marry it with a virtual pbx and use the full-featured pbx with commands or large calls coming to your MJ phone.
If you’ve set your business to be on autopilot, send MJ to your order bookers and custom VAs and have the calls come in with no per-minute charges coming to you.
3 – Integrate The most effective use of technology tools to marry or integrate several solutions to create a complete robust solution.If you are not familiar with virtual-PBXs look into using one like onebox, for services starting at around $10/m., prices go up depending on usage, you get 1-800 access and the same basic forms that a geeky full age phone switch programmer can create for your company. less cost and hassle.
– Call within the PBX to various voicemail addresses, but rather following the Tim Ferris way of doing things, you can have them follow YOU or any of your employees and VAs, no matter what phone or time of day they are on. phone number, giving the appearance of 24/7 staff.
Fuso can also include having really important calls to the MJ device/voicemail number so that only the most urgent calls are received, again from anywhere in the world (with access to the newsletter).Well, this is again only the surface of what the VoIP world and devices like MagicJack can capture for the SMB world, for more info please visit http://squatchtech.ning.com and follow the articles at small business use of technology.
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