Use Your Phone System to Stay Connected During the Busy Holiday Season

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We're quickly moving into the holiday season, a time when it's hard to get the attention of your prospects and customers, and a time when your own team will be in and out of the office. Your business phone service could and should provide you more than just dialtone - it can and should help you promote your business and help you stay connected. Consider this:

• Use your Auto Attendant to stay in touch - Are you using your auto attendant to update callers about your holiday hours? Do you tell them about current promotions to grab their attention? Have you set up holiday and after hours attendants based on when your team will be in and out of the office? With Aptela's hosted phone system, you can do all of this...and much more.
• Set up your Find Me list to ring your mobile phone while you're out - Make sure your new business phone system will allow you to establish a Find Me list that includes your mobile and/or home office numbers. That way, when you need to run out to get your Thanksgiving groceries or to buy a few gifts, you're still connected to your office!
• Take advantage of Click-to-Connect to generate business and support your customers - By adding a Click-to-Connect widget to your website, you can offer prospects and customers a great way to get in touch with you. With Aptela's Click-to-Connect, all a website visitor must do is type in their phone number and/or extension and their request will be immediately forwarded to a company representative for follow-up.

These are just three reasons why you should be thinking about making the move to a system that can do more than just provide a dial tone, (such as Aptela Business VoIP) before the hectic holiday season kicks in. And if you've already made the switch, now is a great time to try out some of the built in features your system offers!