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Messagecenters, also called a Virtual PBX, or sometimes referred to as Auto Attendants, are growing in popularity with Small Businesses today. The cost saving aspect of these services, usually starting as low as $9.99 per month, make web-based answering applications very appealing.

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An interesting research article in Journal USA, by Derek Leebaert called 'How Small Businesses Contribute to U.S. Economic Expansion" indicates small businesses, from as small as one person, make up 99.7% of all employers in the USA. Flip that coin over, and see that only .3% of employers have 500 or more employees. The Small Businesses competing with the Fortune 500 company or the company larger in presence, must implement affordable technology tools, and in fact, that's exactly what small businesses of today are doing. In that same article, research showed Firms of 100 to 1,000 workers spend about eight times faster on technology than larger corporations. Message centers, working as automated switchboards, give smaller business operations, even the one person operation, the all important professional image needed to compete with their larger corporate competitor.

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Message Centers Keep Home Businesses In The Race 

Message Centers Keep Home Businesses In The Race

Are you the owner of a small home-run business? Have you invested all of your personal savings in developing a new company? In either of these situations, it is easy to get left behind. Money can be tight, and the competition fierce. Though keeping up with the latest technology when running a home business can be difficult, it can also give the edge needed to stay ahead. Using a Message Center in the home, also known as an Auto Attendant, can help to keep your business in the race.

Keeping A Professional Front With Top Notch Features

When small businesses or home businesses use Home Message Centers, it enables them to become more like the larger businesses they are competing with. The features of a home message system are extensive. From voicemail, to internet fax, call forwarding, dial by name directory, call logs, outlook integration, call screening, and message alerts, home message centers provide small businesses all the options they need to keep up.

These features do more than just increase the efficiency of a home-owned company-they do so while giving a truly professional front. With a home message center, callers have no idea who they are talking to or where they are speaking from. This anonymity evens out the playing field for small businesses and home businesses that need a foot up in the corporate world.

A One Person Operation

Perhaps what is most revolutionary about home message centers is the concept that they allow a single person to control the entire network. Operating message centers from home means that they are operated as automatic switchboards. Because operating these switchboards is a one person job, small businesses can use the systems without wasting valuable manpower.

With one person in a small business operating a home message system, it is easy to delegate tasks to the remainder of the staff. While staff may be limited, the fact that only one employee is managing the business' communications through a home message system frees the rest of the employees to complete their tasks.

All About The Image

Regardless of the services a small business is able to provide, it will never be able to adequately compete with huge corporations until it obtains a big-business image. It is the image of any business that has the potential to set it apart from all the rest. A home message center might not achieve this image overnight-but it is a start.

Features of A Message Center/Auto Attendant 

This Message Center Service
provides an extensive list of features, as listed below, making it a popular choice today.

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Toll Free Numbers
You can select a toll free number that works for you.

Local Numbers
Live and work in one city, but can still get a local number in from another city. Select area codes that make sense for your business.

Voicemail
There are multiple delivery options and alerts and you can get set-up professional greetings. There are number of ways to get your messages. Pick up voicemail messges from email, your on-line account, and/or play them back through your PC's speakers. Lastely the standard fave, you can simply pick up your messages by phone.

Internet Fax
Send and receive faxes by email online. As well, you'll get free fax software to electronically sign and edit faxes.

Virtual PBX
With your subscription, depending upon the plan you select, you get a number of extensions included in the package. With those extensions you can ceate an actual business phone system by creating virtual department, specialized greetings on a per extension basis and more. If you have a satellite office, or workers in another city, you can also hook-up teams across the country,

Dial-by-name Directory
Auto-generate a Dial-by-Name Directory that outlines department and employee.

Call Forwarding
Let's say someone called your toll free or loca number --you can have the call routed to the phones of your choice, such as your Cell, Home, or Office. Best of all you can route calls to employees, or departments you have across the country.

Answering Rules
You can set re-direction rules for incoming calls for voicemail, extensions and alternate phone numbers based on time, date, date range, and caller ID including the number they dialed, if you infact, have more than one.

...MORE FEATURES included ARE:
Call Screening
Real-Time Call Control
Message Alerts
Music and Message on Hold
Click to Call Out
Click to Call Me
Outlook Integration
Call Logs
Calling Card & More

How it Works 

The sign up process lets you pick your number before you start. If you already have a toll free number, you can work with that too.

Calls are received to your toll free number and distributed it to the telephones you select, in the manner you configure through the easy online set up tools.

You can direct all calls to a single telephone, such as your home phone, all the time and do nothing else, or you can use the full Virtual PBX to create a phone answering and routing system impressionably equal to that of a big company.

However you set up your toll free number, you can keep track of all your calls in your Call Log that gives you real-time call management through your own Call Controller and through advanced call screening abilities.

Your toll free number is only one of many features included with this virtual phone system. You can begin by using only your toll free number and start using additional features as your business needs require. The richness of the business communication features gives you the competitive edge you need to grow your business.

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