Google Voice – One Number to Rule Them All
Wouldn’t it be nice, if you could give out just one telephone number and then choose which of your phones rings based on who is calling? I for one think so! That’s the overall concept of Google Voice in a nutshell. The service has several other niffy features: voicemail transcripts, calling recording, conference calling, and more….
Side note: I am a huge advocate of Google’s services. I use Gmail, Gdocs, Gcal, Reader, G1 phone, Analytics, Talk, Feedburner, Alerts, and Maps. I am also on the waiting list for Voice and Wave. These services are free and web-based. I shaved almost 2 hours off my work day by migrating from Outlook into Gmail. Folder structures always felt inefficient to me, and then I found Gmail’s archiving systems. It took me a couple of weeks to adjust to archiving emails. However, once you get used to relying on Google’s search algorithm to find things, the desire to create those annoying folders and sub-folders goes away. Think about it for a second, a prerequisite to finding something is remembering a characteristic about it. Type that info into the top of Gmail and in less than a second you will be presented with the information you need.
Here is a short video overview of Google Voice:
Get an invite to Google Voice.
About the Author:
Will Franco is the CEO/Founder of jiveSYSTEMS (a video email marketing software and training company). He also runs an online community / membership group called AskFlywheel, in which he teaches cutting-edge online marketing strategies. His mantra at work is "Think-Automate: Do it, Automate it, Delegate it, or Ditch it"
