Voice Mail - What to Look For In A Good Business Voice Mail System

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A good voice mail system will have enough ports to handle incoming calls without delay. If allrepparttar ports are full, then any new callers will be delayed inrepparttar 147330 system until a port becomes available. If a voice mail system has too many ports then its capacity is wasted. The trick is to balancerepparttar 147331 number of ports withrepparttar 147332 estimated number of potential customers.

The capacity of a voice mail system depends onrepparttar 147333 hours of memory it has available. A system with a large number of ports and traffic may need a large number of hours, where as a system with low traffic will need fewer hours. The term hours of memory refers to capacity of a voice mail system to store any messages.



Jason Morris is co-author, search engine optimization and marketing consultant of Business Phone Systems Direct. Specialists in the supply and installation of business phone systems and accessories


Business Phone Systems - Types Of Systems Available

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Private Branch Exchange (PBX) systems

If your business typically requires more than forty extensions, or your needs dictate you need advanced functions from your business phone system, then PBX systems are oftenrepparttar solution. PBX systems used to be extremely expensive and only affordable by huge corporations with hundreds of extensions. Though this is stillrepparttar 147329 case for larger installations,repparttar 147330 development ofrepparttar 147331 technology required has progressed torepparttar 147332 point where a powerful, fully functional PBX office phone system for a small business is able to fit onrepparttar 147333 top of a desk.

Nearly all these compact PBX phone systems come with allrepparttar 147334 features you might want as standard. You pay a premium forrepparttar 147335 programmability and flexibility that a PBX offers, but in most casesrepparttar 147336 price difference is not as much as you may imagine between that of a less flexible phone system.

Key Systems

Key phone systems are more typical in businesses that require five to forty extensions. This type of phone system uses a central control unit calledrepparttar 147337 Key System Unit (KSU) to provide features and functions that are not available using ordinary phones. An example of this is: key systems using a KSU allow one extension to call another in house extension, and prevents any other users from picking up a line that is already in use. Key systems usually come as standard with most features any business would expect, but in some cases they are often less flexible than a PBX phone system.

PBX & Key Systems (hybrids)

Though Key and PBX systems have some different technical features, these differences have become somewhat blurred overrepparttar 147338 past couple of years. Many Key systems now offer features that were once only available to those who chose to install a full PBX phone system. Some systems also operate internally as either a PBX or Key system depending onrepparttar 147339 software installed. Sometime these systems are often referred to as “Hybrid” phone systems.

Thanks for reading.

Jason



Jason Morris is co-author, search engine optimization and marketing consultant of Business Phone Systems Direct. Specialists in the supply and installation of business phone systems and accessories


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