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June 8, 2017
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Price Should Have Nothing to Do with Switching

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Be honest, whenever you consider switching phone service providers, your main focus is price, right? Most small business owners never consider the features of the phone service at all, and why would they? We are all convinced that every small business phone service is exactly the same, the only difference is how much you pay per month.

This is utter nonsense. Price should be almost irrelevant in your quest to find a new phone service for your small business.

“But price is vitally important for small businesses looking for phone services!”

The truth is that almost all current phone services offer the same packages, with only slightly different price points, making pinching pennies make sense (or cents).

Shouldn’t the phone service you choose for your small business offer more than just a slight discount?

Here at RingByName, we believe that a small business phone service should offer features that give your business a competitive edge. Small businesses live and die by what they can offer that big companies can’t.

All the RingByName phone service features are developed with that in mind. How can we create a phone service that offers a real advantage to our clients?

The problem is that focusing on price makes business owners blind to what is important. The telecommunications industry has sat back and barely innovated business phone services in any way. Improvements and innovation have been slow and only prices are adjusted.

Everyone wants the most bang for their buck. To find the sweet spot between affordable and innovative, let’s start demanding more from our business phone service providers. Price should be a secondary concern when choosing a business phone service provider, how it offers you a return and maintains your business operations should be first priority.

RingByName is not expensive. We are an affordable phone service for small businesses and our features are an added bonus that most phone companies lack, which makes our phone service a tool for businesses to gain a leg up over the competition.

Our engineers and developers toiled away to create a communication tool for small businesses that delivers features that positively impact business operations. We worked hard to create something that would take away any doubts about switching service providers. To be honest, major phone service providers don’t care about you or your business. You are just another number in the books for them and a source of very miniscule profit. RingByName treats you differently and we’ve created a phone service that cares.

Every RingByName business phone solution was crafted to create the next step in business communication. Contact us now and see how your phone service can fuel your business and be a ROI.

May 24, 2017
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RingByName is a competitive weapon

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Make your business phone service a competitive weapon with the new E-Z Score feature from RingByName

“Prospect and customer information is crucial to customer acquisition and retention. Most businesses know this but struggle to apply the knowledge. By integrating E-Z Score into RingByName, the delivery of important consumer information to the point-of-contact is automatic,” said Matt Bramson, Chief Growth Officer of RingByName. “The response to E-Z Score from some customer verticals, including real estate and financial services like insurance, has been significant and immediate. These businesses need the information E-Z Score provides to qualify a customer and complete a transaction – now they get it upfront in a relevant and actionable form. The implications of applying business and consumer Big Data to phone service are significant and additional innovative services are coming soon from RingByName.”

E-Z Score delivers the following valuable information on virtually every phone number:

Name and Address
Demographic information including gender, age, marital status, and children
Financial details including income, education, and high net worth
Home information including whether owned or rented, market value, and length of residence
Social media links to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter profiles as well as follower counts on each
E-Z Score is a feature of RingByName, a unified cloud communication service for businesses. RingByName has built and perfected a highly-scalable communications platform using proprietary and open-source software. The company has hundreds of thousands of customers using its services globally.

The heart of the E-Z Score feature is a heuristic data-appending engine that matches a phone number and generates a detailed individual profile by retrieving, comparing, and filtering consumer and business records from numerous public and private databases maintained by government agencies and leading data-aggregation companies. Try it today click here or call 855-345-RING, and ask for E-Z Score our knowledgeable team will get you going.

October 18, 2016
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Integrated CRM Is Not A Phone Service Luxury, It’s Essential

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Business communications have become extremely complex.

In addition to phone and fax, we now have text messaging, voicemails, live chat, and social media communications of all sorts — Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, LinkedIn, Google, and more.  And increasingly, important business communications are occurring on all of them.  It’s a whole lot to keep up with.

At the same time, customer expectations

are rising quickly in this “Customer Experience
Renaissance” we are in the midst of.  Two-hour
delivery of almost anything

— maybe soon with flying drones.  Free shipping, free returns, fast, generous compensation for bad experiences, elaborate loyalty programs, and vertical integration to tighten logistics and improve customer experiences.  It’s fiercely competitive.

Business tools can be segmented in endless ways but one way is fixed and changing.  The stapler hasn’t changed much in maybe fifty years.  The webmail changes a little all the time.  We don’t expect nor want the stapler to change because it’s already almost fully-optimized for driving metal strips through paper.  And that’s all we need and want it to do — maybe ever.  But webmail needs to change and improve with time because our needs change (we want to see Facebook posts that mention our company in a single communication stream alongside our emails, for example) and technology and best practices for business communications change.  Unlike the stapler we need and want our webmail to change — as long as it’s steadily getting better and the changes aren’t disruptive.

Well somewhere back a few decades ago, business phone service became something that a lot of business people came to view as a stapler.  They just wanted a phone service for their business that allowed them to make and receive phone calls and do a few other simple things reliably and cheaply.  And every few years they wanted their new phone service to do these same simple things more reliably and more cheaply than the service it was replacing. 

Well, you can say one thing about private businesses: they don’t spend lots of time and money making something more than it needs to be to sell.  So for decades, business phone service largely lacked significant innovation — and pretty much everyone was okay with that.  But not anymore . . . not with the explosion of communications that business people now need to manage and the sky-high customer expectations.  Businesses today need help and many are looking to their business phone system as part of the solution — or even the heart of it.

In the decades when business phone service was stuck in its “stapler era”, a new industry was born to help businesses to manage their customer relationships more successfully and efficiently.  Aptly named Customer Relationship Management (CRM), this industry that didn’t exist twenty years ago will sell about $30 billion in services to businesses in 2016.  CRM helps business win and keep more customers.  When used properly, CRM can transform a weak or mediocre company into a superstar.  For many businesses, their phone service is their primary communication tool — both internally and externally — so linking CRM to business phone service is something that numerous service providers have done.  The most common approach is for the CRM and the phone service to “plug-in” to one another using a software plug-in that connects the two applications.  This can be effective but the experience often suffers as the user is using two applications at once sort of on top of one another.

The solution for this is not to build separately and then try to connect two entirely different business applications designed to do two very different sets of things but rather to build one application from the ground up that is designed to do what businesses really must succeed at — winning and keeping customers — and do it seamlessly and intuitively.  The most successful example of this is RingByName.

RingByName is way more than a business phone service and that begins with it having fully-integrated CRM into the application.  It’s not plugged in or grafted on — it’s in the DNA of the application, in the bones.  So much so that you can’t tell where the phone system leaves off and the CRM picks up.  On inbound calls RingByName instantly looks the caller up, runs their name through a proper name pronunciation engine, and greets the caller by name, “Hello, Susan.  Thanks for calling Apex Services again.”  Next RingByName looks up the last call from this person and makes a helpful offer to the caller, “Last time you called you spoke with Mike in Service, would you like to speak with him again?”  This level of integration and ease of use between the phone system and customer, prospect, and contact databases can only be achieved through a ground-up architecture and application development.  No sync, plug-in, or widget can deliver what businesses today really need like RingByName does.

RingByName with built-in CRM helps your business in numerous ways including:

  • Allowing you to deliver a better prospect and customer experience with the option to welcome and route callers by name
  • Providing all your employees with visibility into shared activities: see missed calls, voicemails, and other events to improve teamwork.  Visibility can be restricted as desired too.
  • Giving all your employees needed tools like a mobile app for iOS and Android, voicemail to email, eFax, and conference calling
  • Delivering basic CRM company-wide: upload and share contacts, create and assign tasks to individuals or groups, enjoy group calendaring and notes, easily share voicemails and call recordings
  • Supplying instant individual and neighborhood profiles on prospects and customers.  Profiles include a wealth of information including personal, financial, home and family, and consumer-behavior details.
  • A business application like RingByName can be described but it cannot be fully-appreciated without experiencing it. 
  • Does it really do all this stuff? 
  • Is it actually as easy to use as Facebook? 
  • Is it true that it probably costs less than what our business is spending today on phone service? 

All these questions and more can be answered through a 15-minute consultation with a RingByName business consultant.  Click here or call 855-345-RING to take a look.  Business communications aren’t going to magically get less complex and prospects and customers are not going to wake up tomorrow with lower expectations, so you’re literally hurting your business and making it harder for you and your employees to succeed every day you wait.  Apologies for being kind of harsh there at the end, but I could sense you needed a little push.  We all do sometimes…  So here it is—call 855-345-RING right now!  You have a phone there, just pick it up.  There you go . . .  😉