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Ringcentral Vs. Grasshopper Vs. Phone.com

Ken — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:37:43 +0000

Lately we have been asked a lot to compare Ringcentral and Grasshopper. And to be honest, I don’t want to spend hours comparing features etc… And I have to include a third competitor (who we currently use) in the mix Phone.com so I’m just going to list some of our personal experiences with each service.

RingCentral.

We used to be huge Ringcentral fans. Even to the point of evangelism. We have recommended Ringcentral to countless businesses as a way to cut costs. Our loyalty was strong, and for good reason. In the early days Ringcental customer service were happy to help is out, they were willing to do what it took to keep longtime, loyal customers happy. Well, it appears those days are gone. There does not appear to be any loyalty in the other direction. When we needed to make changes to our services we knew we could get what we needed elsewhere with more features included and get it all cheaper! But that wasn’t enough to make us jump ship alone. All we needed was 5 more extensions. That’s all… We gave them plenty of opportunity to make a small concession to keep us. But sadly, they stood fast in there position not to work with us…. So, we jumped ship.

On to Grasshopper.

Grasshopper seems to be a great company with even greater potential. All of our dealings with their support and sales reps were fantastic. The only thing that kept us from staying with grasshopper was a lack of some features, or more specifically a limitation of the flexibility of those features. We were coming from Ringcental, with many phone numbers and extensions. The problem lied with our extension numbers. There was no way to Create extensions that matched our Ringcentral ones. That would mean new business cards as well as annoying the people that call us on our current extensions. For this reason we set out once again to find the perfect replacement for Ringcentral. If you are setting up your phone system for the first. Time go ahead and give Grasshoppeer a try… but for us…

On to phone.com

When we got to phone.com we felt like there was a party going on but we weren’t invited. How was it that we didn’t know about phone.com before… That question still haunts us. But what doesn’t haunt us is the decision to switch to phone.com. They have every feature you want and need plus more. They have amazing call routing and automated response system. You can even route calls based on their caller ID so when joe’s client calls it is routed straight to Joe. No prompts, no extension. Awesome. They have so many features we have only begin to scratch the surface. I’m looking forward to giving the conference call feature a try when I get a chance. We wanted flexibility and we got it. Wow. You can do anything you want with this system.
Phone.com gets our vote for sure. Give them a try, here is a link: Business Phone Service – Increase Productivity Reduce Cost

Ringcentral Killer? Stupid Name, Awesome Price!

Ringcentral Killer? Stupid Name, Awesome Price!

Anthony — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:36:44 +0000

Grasshopper is an incredibly stupid name, but by now, as we all know, most ‘great names’ on the Internet have been taken. Ringcentral has been great to us over the years but the pricing for grasshopper.com can’t be beat. Plans start at just under $10 /mo and give you one number (local or toll-free) and UNLIMITED EXTENSIONS! You heard me right kids, unlimited extensions. Ringcentral gives you one number and 10 extensions for $25 /mo. See where this is headed?

For all of you who are wondering what Ringcentral and Grasshopper are, I’ll tell you. They are virtual phone systems. No hardware required… except your existing phone and service (cell, land line, or VoIP). Did you ever want to sound like a huge company with automated attendants, extensions, and voicemail? This is the type of service you need to sound like the big guys.c

Click below and check it out, sign up for the 30 day trial.

Ringcentral Vs. Grasshopper Vs. Phone.com

Your complete business phone system, Online!

Ken — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:27:27 +0000

There are many services available to meet your business telecommunications needs, but today I am going to discuss the one that I use every day: RingCentral.com

You can go online and find a service to send and receive faxes, a VoIP for phone service, a unified messaging service, a Virtual PBX service… Or you can get multiple land lines from the phone company, buy phones, buy a fax machine, buy a PBX system, and of course pay someone to get it all working…. And that’s why we are bringing this up, Money. It’s all about getting the most bang for your buck… believe me, if you are using traditional land lines, and fax machines you are pouring money right down the phone line. If your using some frankenstien like combination of land lines and online services you are probably wasting money on overlapping services that don’t really meet your needs.

If your looking for a reliable and cost effective alternative you can use RingCentral. We use RingCentral for multiple companies, and doing so is easy. We have a phone number for each business and each number can go to it’s own extension, it can be set to forward that call to one or more people so you can always have someone answer the phone.

We are even able to have a support line that lets the caller choose from a list of options and routes that call to the appropriate extension.

My favorite feature is the ability to use VoIP lines to expand the system to connect Satilite offices and home offices. And having a button on your website that says “call me” a visitor clicks it, enters their phone number and the system automatically calls the visitor then calls you… that’s pretty cool.

We started with RingCentral with one phone number and the basic plan…. Now we have 6 numbers and utilize soft phones and are planning on stepping up to the RingCentral Office Plan soon. This will act as a complete, fully functional VoIP and PBX system. all taken care of by RingCentral so I don’t have to worry about it. Beautiful.

Head over to RingCentral and get a Free Trial plus 10% Off !

How to make your own huge Whiteboard

Ken — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:12:44 +0000

Whiteboards are cool, and the bigger the better…
Well, how about a whiteboard that’s four by eight feet for about $10?

There is a paneling product, usually called tileboard used for showers, bathrooms etc… it is white, smooth and it is sold in 4′x8′ sheets for about $10.

I have taken the sheet and a tube of liquid nails and glued the sheet to the wall. Huge whiteboard in 10 minutes. I have also coverd the walls of an entire room with the material…. makes an awesome conference room.

Or get crafty and build a frame around it and it looks like the ones that cost hundreds!

I searched for a picture I could use to show you the product and found this one

White Tileboard $10 at home depo

I found that picture here where it was being used in a photography setup…. Cool!

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