Business Telephone Systems-Adding Additional Lines

 One of the biggest problems when setting up a home business is developing a business telephone system for your home.  You want to present yourself as a legitimate business but at the same time you don't want to spend too much money.

For many years I faced this problem since I've had several home businesses for decades.  The good old phone company was always happy to add an additional line in my home.  If my memory serves me correctly, it used to cost in the area of $30 monthly, just for the service of an additional line.

Of course you then needed to purchase all the "Bells and Whistles" that we've come to use such as call waiting, call forwarding and so forth.  Needless to say, it wasn't unusual at all to have a $200 to $300 monthly telephone bill when you added in long distance calling.

Eventually the phone company did start providing practical benefits like distinctive ringing so you could at least set up 2 phone numbers on one line.  Of course the problem here was you still only had the one line for outgoing calls and you needed additional equipment to separate answering machines.  But again, the additional charges kept mounting up.

Finally I've found a solution to the home business telephone system problem.  There are several companies who have entered the field of 'voice over IP' (VOIP for short).  If you are not familiar with this term, this enables you to have all the benefits of your old local phone line only provides the service over your broadband internet connection.

The only negative I have found is there is a controversy concerning the effectiveness of any 911 service due to your connection being via the internet.  But if you have a cell phone as the over whelming majority of Americans do today, this isn't really an issue.  Of course the other requirement which might be considered a negative is the fact that you need a broadband connection.  But most home businesses already have this in place.

 I've had VOIP service for a couple years now and have been very happy with it.  The best deal for a home business offered unlimited calling within the USA and Canada for under $25 per month.  Needless to say, this was a sweet improvement over the $250 phone bills I had been paying for years for my original business telephone system with multiple lines.

This year I found an even better deal which led me to dropping my original VOIP service.  The original VOIP service required me to pay around $50 per month for two telephone lines.  Now with the MagicJack system shown here, I paid $50 for the first YEAR and only $20 per year after that. 

Plus, even at paying $20 per year, you still get all the benefits that have become a necessity to the small business owner.  So all you need is a later model PC with a couple of USB connections and you are good to go.

You also can select the telephone number from just about any zip code around the country.  If your main market area is in California and you live in New Jersey, no problem.  Select a phone number from California and your customer base will assume you are in their local area. 

The other benefit of this VOIP system is you can easily take your USB card with you on business trips.  With a simple head set your laptop becomes your business phone from anywhere you can connect to the internet broadband hook up.

Believe me when I say, this is a no brainer for any small business owner.  I've got one for each of my main businesses and no one calling would have a clue that they are speaking over the internet.  I highly recommend this as a solution to your home business telephone system needs.