This is the second part of our blog series on choosing the best office space for your small business. For many small business owners, finding a workspace can be a confusing ordeal. Balancing the need for professionalism and productivity with budget constraints can leave many working from a matrix of locations including home, coffee shops, [...]

In this first post of a two part blog series about selecting the best office space for your small business, we’ll be sharing the signs of when it might be time to venture beyond a home office. On Monday, we’ll be providing you with creative and cost-effective solutions when you  need outside office space – all on [...]

In today’s RingCentral Voices, we feature family-owned business and bring you two interesting family businesses using RingCentral to help them achieve their entrepreneurial goals. Both stories highlight community, commitment to good customer service, and true dedication to keeping business a family affair. With nearly 90% of all businesses in the United States owned or controlled by families, [...]

Your car is buried. The roads are impassable. Heck, you can’t even open your front door with the all of the snow piling up on your porch. It’s definitely a “snow day.” But, what is an unexpected and fun break from school for the kids can be downright costly and disruptive for business owners. Before [...]

Bonjour, hola, konnichiwa! Want to make or forward calls to other countries? Just adjust your settings in your RingCentral account, and you’ll be all set to go global. 1. In your online account, go to My Settings > Account Summary. 2. Look for the International Calling link. If your account is enabled, you should see the word [...]

That busy time between Thanksgiving and January 1st can be extremely hectic for business owners who are scrambling to spread the word about holiday promotions while also attending celebrations. Too often, little details get forgotten somewhere between purchasing customer gifts and decking the halls with boughs of holly. Keeping it business as usual during the [...]

Over the last several weeks, we have sponsored a fantastic series about non-traditional workspaces on the Internet news blog Mashable. If you missed these articles, we encourage you to check them out.  Each article offers a variety of interesting ideas, tips, and insights about increasingly mobile work environments. Here’s a rundown on what was featured [...]

Continuing our Non-Traditional Workspace series on Mashable  which highlights incredibly inspired and unique workspaces, we wanted to bring to you the story of a self-proclaimed “geek” who successfully manages his computer and network repair business while working onsite with customers. Spending much time on the road and in his clients’ server rooms, Erik Andre Herrera, one of three [...]

As part of a new series at RingCentral, we’re highlighting some of our most interesting customers and how RingCentral helps their employees, business and customers. This week we are featuring LifeGuardian Technologies, LLC, a distributor of life saving emergency medical alert devices who recently made the switch to RingCentral Office for their business needs. When [...]

We take a rather complex term and break it down into its feature components using the example of the Virtual Office. As we mentioned in a previous post on cloud computing, the term itself is hotly debated and its definitions are segmented. So let’s use the example of how Cloud Computing has allowed for the [...]

A fascinating survey conducted by RingCentral shows an emerging trend in the way America’s small businesses are operating. Here’s the scoop. When I first started writing for RingCentral, one of the ideas thrown around in our early brainstorming sessions was to open up the data that customers were supplying the company in order to help [...]