Hey Bill,
I have a business line in the office then the call is forwarded to the cell phone most of the time. One problem that I notice is it can be a long delay before the phone rings. I believe it is more to do with Nextel and tring to locate my cell phone. Sometimes it has taken 20-30 seconds for the phne to ring. It will pause and say "please hold while we locate our Nextel subscriber" a few times. I wonder if I loose a few new calls from people not wanting to wait.
One plus with having a business number is you will be listed in the local phone books and internet phone directories. One negitive is now telemarketers will call you a few times a day. They will think you just opened your doors so you need insurance, advertising, temp staffing, etc. I even get companies calling to try and find out all your contact information, numbers, and addresses for a free business listing - in what? To sell as sales leads. I gave some bogas contact names and more then a year latter I still get mail and calls for a person that does not exist.
If you go with vontage or another VOIP you would not get a business number listed in the books for free or on the internet unless you took out an ad.
If you do go with a standared business line like SBC try to get some calling plan. Every call forwared to the cell phone is charged on the business phone line and cell phone line.
Another nice feature is if something happens to your cell phone you can just forward calls to a different one.
Tom,
You have a nice web site. Did you take the pictures or were they from some advertising package?
Tom
