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We love this. Love it love it love it. Looking back on it at the time, it didn’t feel wierd or innefficient in having an office number, a cell number and a home number. We would leave  messages for various people leaving various combinations of numbers depending on who we were calling. We’ve been doing this for years. Wouldn’t think twice about doing it.

Then we were introduced to google voice. In a nut shell, you sign up for a number at google, which ‘claims’ to be local, (not that mine matches any of my office, cell or home town codes). Once you have it, you enter in all phone numbers  you have, office, cell, home. You then give out your google voice number to everyone from then on.

In it’s simplest form, when someone calls your google voice number, you can set it to:

• ring all your phones
• ring specific phones if you assign certain callers to certain number, eg. clients to the office number, golf buddy to the cell etc.

When you pick up the call, you can set it to tell you who’s calling by the caller saying their name, you are promted to either connect the call, or send to voicemail. If you send to voicemail, you can hear them leave the message live, after which you can mark it as read. (Just like an old fashioned answer phone. Haven’t we come along way…not)

If the call goes to voicemail, it will transcribe the message, then send your the transcription via text message, and or email with a link to play the message online.

And lastly, in case you needed any more reasons, you can call internationally really cheaply too. We can call the UK (limey land) for 2cents a minute from our cell phones.