The best tool you can possibly want by (of all people).... GOOGLE!!!!
I'm sure many of you know of this but I'll post it anyway...
Let's say your an SEO 1 man shop and you're calling on companies and leaving messages and you're leaving your cell phone on their VM. Well when you get a call, if you're using your cell, you're not sure who the heck is calling you! Whether is a biz call or a personal call! ???
You will want to ALWAYS come across as a professional but its hard to when you answer your phone and you think its ya budd, only to find out its a potential client! Also, what about actually having a professional VM that your prospects can leave a msg on?!?! Do you really want music in the background or some unpolished vm like u might currently have?!? Heckie naaah!
The Big Bad Google empire has actually hooked us up with a SOLUTION (rejoicing)
It's called Google Voice...
You can sign up and get your very own phone number from Google... you can have this number forwarded to your cell and when a potential client calls, your GOOGLE number will show up! Then you know its a prospect! It's got a gazillion features as well!
Also with google voice, you can have it set up to where you can make phone calls using your computer and your gmail account! I start making my phone calls next Monday and that's EXACTLY how I'll be doing it! I have a headset that came with my webcam. I plug in my headset and make calls right from my computer! :-) This is better than calling from your cell so you don't have to worry about your battery or using "minutes".
Hope this helps some of you out... :-)
PS: For more info you obviously wanna google "Google Voice" ;-)
Let's say your an SEO 1 man shop and you're calling on companies and leaving messages and you're leaving your cell phone on their VM. Well when you get a call, if you're using your cell, you're not sure who the heck is calling you! Whether is a biz call or a personal call! ???
You will want to ALWAYS come across as a professional but its hard to when you answer your phone and you think its ya budd, only to find out its a potential client! Also, what about actually having a professional VM that your prospects can leave a msg on?!?! Do you really want music in the background or some unpolished vm like u might currently have?!? Heckie naaah!
The Big Bad Google empire has actually hooked us up with a SOLUTION (rejoicing)
It's called Google Voice...
You can sign up and get your very own phone number from Google... you can have this number forwarded to your cell and when a potential client calls, your GOOGLE number will show up! Then you know its a prospect! It's got a gazillion features as well!
Also with google voice, you can have it set up to where you can make phone calls using your computer and your gmail account! I start making my phone calls next Monday and that's EXACTLY how I'll be doing it! I have a headset that came with my webcam. I plug in my headset and make calls right from my computer! :-) This is better than calling from your cell so you don't have to worry about your battery or using "minutes".
Hope this helps some of you out... :-)
PS: For more info you obviously wanna google "Google Voice" ;-)
Just here to see the shenanigans.