I am so impressed with Google Voice (Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, Siemens, Shoretel…pay attention to Google…nevermind…I forget you’re trying to make a profit!)…especially the single number reach, simultaneous ring capability. Then there’s free voicemail with speech to text (email and SMS notifications)…whoa! Free? Nothing’s free. Really?
And with their purchase of Gizmo5 with whom I was in the process of getting a free SIP trunk for inbound and outbound calling (after MagicJack flipped the script on the birdies that told us our MagicJack SIP credentials; oh the joys of Xlite softphones making calls from Macs and PC’s ), I look forward to what Google plans with this acquisition (free SIP trunks, please).
And to think I design and sell VoIP solutions (well among an exponential list of presales solution engineering responsibilities of which Cisco-based MPLS solutions was my forte according to some).
I used to bite my lips not to mention Asterisk to our customers, although I love sharing the story of how Bluepeach Communications (my former life) saved a small business customer thousands of dollars on a manageable phone system (that’s right, folks, you don’t need a PBX administrator for this one after an hour or so of training) with SIP trunks from Cbeyond.
They are reaping the benefits to this day. Hmmm…I wonder if there is an opportunity for me to introduce Google Voice integration with their highly successful e-Commerce business (ask me how I turned a negligible ~$300/on a good month in online sales business to $30k consistently after I redesigned and hosted their website, re-engineering their e-commerce backend, and deploying marketing strategies that included among others offering promos in exchange for emails to grow a small email list from a couple of hundred to tens of thousands in a matter of months used in ‘email marketing campaigns.’ Can you say chuh-ching…and no it wasn’t spam as this folks gave us their email!). Now the company is listed in the Inc. 500 2009 as a successful, growing Atlanta-based business with $2M in revenue selling jeans.
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