Friday Five: 5 Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs

One hundred and thirty-seven years ago yesterday, the first telephone call took place. Any guess as to who placed the call and what was said? (The answers are at the end of this post.) In honor of this most auspicious of audio anniversaries, we polled nearly 2,000 people to determine how our collective phone habits [...]

Recently there’s been a lot of chatter on the subject of remote working. Just last month Yahoo! CEO, Marissa Mayer sparked a firestorm of conversation around whether businesses should allow employees to work remotely. Since then, Best Buy has announced its elimination of its flexible work program, while others insist their employees are more productive [...]

Exciting news: Our senior director of channel and franchise sales, Bonnie Lam, appeared today on BlogTalkRadio‘s Franchise Interviews radio show. Franchise Interviews has been discussing the business of franchises for more than 40 years. Some of the nation’s best-known companies are franchised – including Subway, Jiffy Lube, Quizno’s and H&R Block – so even if [...]

Great news! RingCentral Office has just been named a PC Magazine Editors’ Choice. PC Magazine, in awarding RingCentral Office an “Excellent” rating (four stars out of five), called Office “extremely versatile. “It can be configured to fit practically any kind of business, whether it’s a multi-branch organization, a small business with a high number of [...]

Wouldn’t it be great to be able to determine whether it’s a personal or a business call that’s coming in to your phone? Not to worry – there is a feature on your account that lets you display the called number (i.e., your RingCentral number) instead of the caller’s number. This feature, called the “Called [...]

Our Silicon Valley neighbor and my ex-employer Yahoo! made waves this week when it announced plans to disallow remote work. Many corporate leaders like Virgin’s Richard Branson and oDesk CEO Gary Swart were quick to criticize Yahoo’s move, arguing that their employees are more productive when working from home (in contrast to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who [...]

We’ve made a lot of changes to the RingCentral platform in the past few months. Since late 2012, we’ve added conferencing, automatic call recording, Salesforce.com integration, Business SMS and lots more. At the same time we introduced these innovations, we also debuted a revised version of the RingCentral online interface. The new interface is faster to [...]

Maureen Jackson, the controller for Applebee’s franchisor Gator Apple, was having a tough time reconciling all the phone bills she received each month. Gator Apple operates 41 Applebee’s restaurants in Georgia and Florida, and it had a unique phone system at each location. That meant 41 different phone bills, in different amounts, with due dates [...]

Bill Horton isn’t your average insurance broker. He was an amateur drag racer for more than two decades – and he turned that passion into a successful line of business. Bill was working for a large insurance brokerage when he began selling race-car insurance. Bill met enough interested people at drag events to start offering [...]

RingCentral exhibited at ITEXPO East in Miami Beach, FL last week. We introduced our new booth, and brought along especially bright booth staff (check out our orange pants!). Fashion do or don’t aside, the show wasn’t all about making a fashion statement; RingCentral showcased  Business SMS, participated on two panel discussions, interviewed with TMC, met with current and [...]