Karin Stewart, founder & president of Daily Mastery, is today’s featured guest blogger. The average American worker is interrupted eight to eleven times each hour. The majority of these interruptions come from phones and email. Although modern communications have made it easier to grow a business, they have also created new ways to get distracted [...]

First introduced in the late 1960s by AT&T, toll free numbers have become a ubiquitous communication tool for almost every large company and for a growing number of small businesses. Originally, all toll free numbers used the 800 prefix. Yet, because of growing demand, 888, 877, 866, and 855 were added, and AT&T is no [...]

We’re feeling the love this week and have another great story to share with you as part of our RingCentral Voices series. Today, we’re featuring Tasha and Andy Taylor of Taylor & Taylor Law Firm. As attorneys with a new practice, they are busy working on cases through the day while also juggling the demands [...]

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 [...]

Business travel can be grueling whether you’re heading out on the highway or flying half-way around the world to see clients. Here are some tips for staying connected on the days you’re out and about. Let Them Know When You’re Traveling While you’re getting ready to travel, changing your voicemail greeting may not be at [...]

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 [...]

Receiving comments from happy customers makes our day. We get lots of great feedback from business owners who consider RingCentral to be a key component of their success. So, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers and share just a few of their amazing messages that we’ve received recently. Do [...]

Have you ever wanted to share a voice or faxed message with a colleague? Thanks to RingCentral’s integration with MicroSoft Outlook, it’s as easy as sending an email. Just make sure you’ve installed RingCentral Call Controller™. Want to fax something to one of your Outlook contacts? Go to File > Print and select RingCentral Internet [...]

Never miss an important voicemail when you’re out of the office or away from a computer. Checking your messages by phone is a snap. Just follow these five easy steps: 1. Dial your RingCentral number. 2. Press * as soon as you hear the phone ring or the recorded message play. 3. Enter your password and [...]

As a small business owner, you know the importance of projecting professionalism on all fronts. It can literally make or break your chances for success in a competitive marketplace. While a smartly designed website, business card, and marketing materials are necessary tools for building credibility and presenting that polished image, you also need to take [...]

From the once highly innovative to the downright clunky, here’s a list of phone equipment that has disappeared or is on its way to extinction.        Rotary Dial Phones  Introduced nearly 100 years ago, rotary dial phones were ubiquitous in homes and businesses across the United States for decades. Hard on the fingers and [...]

Browsing through voicemail on an answering machine or on your cell phone is a clumsy process. First, you have to listen all your messages to get to the messages that count. Then, you have to replay an entire message if you’ve missed any details. And finally, you have to listen to each message to know [...]

1) Understanding taxes and surcharges on your bill make that calculus test you failed in 12th grade look easy. Sometimes, I look at my bills and sigh because I can’t figure out why I am being charged $1.36 for some fee I have never heard of. And the bills are usually 4 pages long. You [...]