Ring Central (800 numbers and e-faxing)

[txagt39]

Unless you're running child porn site I can't think of any reason to pay extra for a private domain registration.

I can give you some logical reasons why to pay for a private domain: If you change internet providers you would not have to notify past/present clients and/or prospects that you also now have a new email address. You won't lose out on communication you may not have been expecting. It also helps clients/prospects easily get to you, and it elevates your image of professionalism. Know what I think when I meet a professional who uses throwaway email addresses like [email protected] or [email protected], I think they are in it for the short haul or may intend to thow this address away and get another for some reason - they are called throw away email addresses and I have one for online purchases so I don't give out my business email address.
Oh, and by the way I'm an insurance agent, not into porn.

 

[rayholt]

I use Google Voice, it has been working great so far. I've noticed most people don't care too much about 1 800 numbers with the emergence of nationwide long distance from most all cell phone carriers. I'm looking around myself for an eFax number. Anything I can do to reduce the amount of paper I'm for. As for emails being secured, I integrated Google's Apps into my website to manage my corporate email accounts.

About having a private domain. I think it is imperative that you have one. @aol, yahoo, hotmail, or live is too shady nowadays. To set up a domain name, email, and simple website takes only an hour or two. This level of professionalism is a must in the insurance industry.

 

[txagt39]

I agree with your comments 100%. When I see an agent with a hotmail or yahoo account I automatically have the image of a snake oil salesman. For efax you might take a look at rapidfax, I've been using them for a while. Not for all my faxing solutions but for some applications it works really well. I use it when I order loss runs so once I type up the loss run request I just save it to my desktop then go to rapidfax and send it, I never have to leave my desk. So it's more about time efficiency than anything else. I don't use it for incoming faxes but might need to consider it, right now I use a Canon Imagerunner multi-function machine that has cut my cost per page down on printing to zilch and I never have to worry about replacing costly ink cartriges. Once your volume gets up there inkjet or desktop laser printers are not sufficient and get very costly due to the ink refill prices.

 

[rphillips]

I use Kall8 800 Numbers & Toll Free Number Services.

Runs about $2 per month for a toll-free number which can be used for either ring-through, voicemail or in-bound faxing.

I have a fax-phone handy for outbound faxing when needed.

 

[insureitnow]

Paketel is eliminating my fax number for efax so I have to find another carrier. I love inbound efax. So that got me looking at Ring Central

Is anyone using Ring Central for local phone service?

We have 2 agencies, 4 land lines and fax in one, 2 land lines and fax in the other. I figure if I went to ring central for $179.00 per month I would save about $400 per month.

Internet Phone Service, Toll Free Numbers, Voicemail, Virtual PBX, How RingCentral Works

Is voice quality good with this. Voip correct? This is very important. I have Vonage at my home office and I am not impressed with quality.

Can I move or "port" my existing numbers?

 

[insureitnow]

Anyone use RC for local numbers?

Packetel has notified me that they are eliminating my fax number. So that got me looking at Ring Central. I love efax.

So that got me looking at RC

Internet Phone Service, Toll Free Numbers, Voicemail, Virtual PBX, How RingCentral Works

We have 2 agencies. One has 4 land lines and 1 fax, another has 2 land lines and fax. If I switched to RC's $179.00 per month package I would save about $400 per month however, I may have to buy their digital phones.

But I understand this is Voip and I am concerned about quality. I have Vonage for my home office and quality is poor.

Any experience with local numbers and is quality good?

They say I can port my existing numbers from Embarq and At&T

 

[Third Joker]

Anyone use RC for local numbers?

Packetel has notified me that they are eliminating my fax number. So that got me looking at Ring Central. I love efax.

So that got me looking at RC

Internet Phone Service, Toll Free Numbers, Voicemail, Virtual PBX, How RingCentral Works

We have 2 agencies. One has 4 land lines and 1 fax, another has 2 land lines and fax. If I switched to RC's $179.00 per month package I would save about $400 per month however, I may have to buy their digital phones.

But I understand this is Voip and I am concerned about quality. I have Vonage for my home office and quality is poor.

Any experience with local numbers and is quality good?

They say I can port my existing numbers from Embarq and At&T

Here is my take...I have 8 lines with RingCentral operating over a Verizon 7mb DSL (they say you need about 100 kbs per line for bandwidth) and we can not be happier. The service is awesome and we haven't had a single problem, aside from the initial set up 8 months ago (which was really a non issue once I spoke with their tech support). The system is very flexible and you can configure it pretty much any way that you want. In a nutshell, highly recommended. Get in touch with me if you have questions, but suffice it to say that I am a big fan. The 8 line system that I have costs about $200 per month including taxes, etc. and I paid $80 per handset, so I had a $640 investment to get started, but I had to buy a phone system anyway, so $640 was cheap to me.

 

[Bill5]

Unless you're running child porn site I can't think of any reason to pay extra for a private domain registration.

That's true. Someone would say they were "designed for illegal content".

 

[JasonH]

I can give you some logical reasons why to pay for a private domain: If you change internet providers you would not have to notify past/present clients and/or prospects that you also now have a new email address. You won't lose out on communication you may not have been expecting. It also helps clients/prospects easily get to you, and it elevates your image of professionalism. Know what I think when I meet a professional who uses throwaway email addresses like [email protected] or [email protected], I think they are in it for the short haul or may intend to thow this address away and get another for some reason - they are called throw away email addresses and I have one for online purchases so I don't give out my business email address.
Oh, and by the way I'm an insurance agent, not into porn.

I agree. Here are some other reasons to have a private domain

• SPAM and Scams relative to your domain
• Internet identity theft
• Internet fraud
• Telemarketing
• Junk mail to your home or business
• Data mining
• Virus attacks
• Spying and stealing
• Phishing emails