Business Toll Free

The Advantage of Business Toll Free Numbers from RingCentral

Many businesses are benefiting from the Web's celebrated ability to bring customers and commerce together using business toll free numbers. Eye-catching ads that used to cost thousands of dollars can now occupy a permanent place on your site instead, making your business toll free number available anytime a client wants information. Where most businesses lag behind, however, is in the realm of telecom. That's where RingCentral comes in.

Market your business toll free number, and business will come through it. Because phone numbers haven't become globally affordable like websites, many people forget how important these lines of communication can be. If all you have is a local number to which long distance charges apply, many customers may unthinkingly opt for a more established brand instead. Thankfully, there has never been a better time to level the playing field at little cost with business toll free numbers.

RingCentral believes the products it sells are only as good as the quality of the calls. In fact, you won't find better-sounding business toll free numbers for less anywhere on the Web than those offered by RingCentral.

These are robust business toll free lines. Many clients tell RingCentral they never dreamed their business could succeed on such a national scale until they tried this simple, essential approach to modern commerce with RingCentral's business toll free numbers.

Brian Solomon is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Brian Solomon's columnist page.

More Companies Move to Business Toll Free Numbers

In an effort to stay competitive, many companies are moving to a business toll free number. With a business toll free number, customers can call free of charge. This primary, basic feature of a business toll free number is especially vital when customers must otherwise dial long distance to reach the company. Retaining customers by making support access free is a very good reason to sign up for a business toll free number.

In fact, a company like RingCentral, which provides business toll free, is fast becoming a leader among next-generation telecom providers.

On a monthly subscription basis, RingCentral offers everything from toll-free and local area code select, to advanced call waiting, call screening, text-to-speech technology, online faxing, message management, and now click-to-call.

RingCentral provides on demand telecommunications services that enable small businesses and mobile executives to effectively manage communications and project a professional image to customers, partners and prospects.

And a business toll free number can make the number easier for customers to remember. Because phone keypads associate groups of letters with each number, companies can get a business toll free vanity number.

Customers can dial this business toll free number by matching the letters to numbers on their phone keypad, such as 1-800-CALL-ME .Often this type of business toll free number is referred to an 800-number.

Although a business toll free number provides free access to customer service, it does cost the company money for each call. Business toll free rates are w enough, however, to make such a number affordable. Rates for business toll free can be obtained for as low as 3.9 cents per minute.

RingCentral combines a toll-free and/or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax, enabling customers to automatically screen, forward and place calls; take voicemail; send and receive faxes; and receive message alerts. More than 20,000 customers use RingCentral's comprehensive and affordable hosted phone system to unify landline, wireless, VoIP and email communications.

Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Tim Gray's columnist page.

Business Toll Free: Beneficial for All Companies

In order to stay competitive, every company can benefit from a business toll free number. A business toll free number lets customers call free of charge. This primary, basic feature of a business toll free number is especially vital when customers must otherwise dial long distance to reach the company. Retaining customers by making support access free is a very good reason to sign up for a business toll free number.

An added benefit of a business toll free number is that it can make the number easier for customers to remember. Because phone keypads associate groups of letters with each number, companies can get a business toll free vanity number. For example, a business toll free vanity number might be 1-800-CALL-ME. Customers would dial this business toll free number by matching the letters to numbers on their phone keypad. Often this type of business toll free number is referred to an 800-number. Some toll free vanity numbers now start with the numbers 888, 877 or 866.

While a business toll free number provides free access to customer service, it does cost the company money for each call. Business toll free rates are now low enough, however, to make such a number affordable. Rates for business toll free can be obtained for as low as 3.9 cents per minute.

When picking a business toll free provider, it is important to check how minutes are billed. RingCentral, for example, offers a key business toll free advantage by not double-charging for both incoming call and answering time. The business toll free service from RingCentral does not charge for domestic forwarded calls.

Thanks to modern telephony, calls to a business toll free number now can be routed to any other number. This feature of a business toll free number lets calls be received on a mobile phone, a home phone, or a business phone. It is up to the company to decide how calls to the business toll free number are routed.

These advanced capabilities completely change the way in which faxes were once used and allows them to once again become a powerful tool in the business world.

Signing up for a business toll free number from a provider like RingCentral offers more benefits. RingCentral.s business toll free service is part of a broader suite of online communications tools. With RingCentral, a company can use a Web-based call manager to track calls to the business toll free number. Other features with a business toll free number include music on hold, dial-by-name directory and click-to-call on the company.s Web site.

It.s clear that a business toll free number is much more than just a way to give customers free access to support. In fact, a business toll free number is a highly useful asset for any company.

Mae Kowalke previously wrote for Cleveland Magazine in Ohio and The Burlington Free Press in Vermont. To see more of her articles, please visit Mae Kowalke.s columnist page