Advantages Of Utilizing Virtual Numbers In Your Business

| Monday, September 17, 2012
By Derry M. Edim


Virtual numbers are an option for both residential and business purposes and are specifically valuable for small businesses that are on a tight budget. They are usually available with many convenient features that can be tailored to provide the best benefits for your specific type of business. Virtual numbers can be either toll-free numbers or local numbers and are not dependent on your particular geographical region. Instead, they are numbers that are not directly associated with a telephone line, but can be set to forward all incoming calls to a pre-determined telephone number of your choice.

Virtual numbers are very affordable, because you do not have to get any expensive hardware and can use any pre-existing phone to manage all calls to this number. In fact, it is possible to program these numbers to forward calls to different telephone numbers at different times and days of the week. Calls to your virtual number can be received at your office phone during office hours and directed to your cell phone or other phone during evenings and weekends. This system is akin to different email address aliases that are set to forward all inbound messages to your primary email address for your convenience.

You can choose the region where most your customers are located and procure a virtual number that is local to that area by having the same area code. This gives you the flexibility of receiving calls from your customers even if you are not in that same geographical area. Your customers will appreciate that ease of using a local call to contact you and you can also boost your presence in that locality by being perceived as a local business in that area. This feature is very helpful for web-based businesses that have customers in other regions, for employees who travel constantly and for enterprises that have branches in different locations.

Virtual numbers can also be toll-free numbers that allow your customers from all over the country reach you without incurring any long distance charges. Toll free numbers can used by corporations that conduct business with people living in other countries.

You can obtain a local virtual number for pretty much any state and city in the United States, or even for places in other countries. You can use these handy options as part of a virtual call system that operates via the internet with voice over IP (VoIP) technology.




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