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How to Get a ‘Portable’ Virtual Phone Number

For a small business, virtual PBX services are a godsend. They provide a small business with all of the bells and whistles of a robust, business-class phone system for as … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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How Google Voice Stacks Up Against a Small Business Class Virtual PBX

Can Google Voice Work as My Business Phone System? In 2009 Google launched Google Voice, which provides free PC-to-PC voice and video calling to users worldwide, as well as free … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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How to Conduct a Successful International Conference Call

Conference calling has become essential to many businesses managing virtual offices and teams, many of which are now located abroad.  We talked to Subhi Khudairi, Vice President of the Khudairi … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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Should Your Office Go Virtual?

Earlier this month, Inc. Magazine published an article about its office’s experiment with going virtual for a month, meaning that for 30 days, the magazine’s employees went about their normal … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Fax Number / Set Up a Phone Number
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ChooseWhat’s Top 7 iPhone and Smartphone Apps for Small Business

Read about ChooseWhat’s favaorite desktop and iPhone applications that boost productivity and help small business owners effectively manage their businesses.  We at ChooseWhat have used all of these applications at … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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Should Your Business Go Totally Mobile?

Well-known IT research firm, Gartner Inc., predicted last month that by 2011, mobile phones will completely replace desktop phones for the majority of businesses in North America (Gartner.com). This suggests … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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Nokia and Skype: VoIP and Smartphones Together At Last

Earlier today, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Skype announced its partnership with the world’s largest cell-phone maker, Nokia. It’s a marriage made in business technology heaven—for … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number
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Ring, Ring, It’s Fring: VoIP on iPhone

Attention, iPhone users: Fring is now available for iPhone. What is Fring, you ask? According to their website, Fring is “a mobile internet service & community,” bringing PC-benefits to mobile … Continue Reading

Startup Step: Get a Business Phone System / Set Up a Phone Number