Marketing Outside the Square

When everyone around you is saying or selling the same thing, how do you make your message stand out?

We all know that we need to identify and promote our unique value proposition/unique selling features, and to explain to our potential customers why we’re better than everyone else out there … so what we need to say is covered.

It’s more a matter of how we say it. What types of things can we do to make our message stand out from the crowd and get more people to pay attention to what we’re saying?

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Virtual Office Services that Grow with your Business

The phone is an essential tool for small business. It’s the way many customers form their first impression of your company, and is often the main communications channel between you and your customers.

It’s important that everything about your telecommunications solution helps to present your business in a positive and professional manner.

It’s equally important to select a solution that not only meets all of your needs today, but adapts with you as your business grows and your needs increase.

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1300 Number Call Splaying Shares the Load

There are a number of situations in which it would be convenient if you could automatically split incoming calls evenly between your staff members.

The good news is that you don’t need to invest time or money into setting up a PBX system to do this. All you need is a 1300 number or 1800 number.

Because these are “virtual” numbers, you can route your incoming calls to one (or more) answer points including landlines, mobile phones, VoIP phones, and call answering services.

One of the routing options available for your 1300 numbers and 1800 numbers is Call Splaying, which allows you to distribute incoming calls across multiple answer points (based on a pre-set ratio).

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