Virtual PBX

What's a virtual PBX? Yeah, I asked that too.

Basically, I signed up for a phone number that anyone can call. And I can forward it to my home phone, my iphone, mom's house, even when I go over to Carla's house for martinis. I could set up a little group of people and pretend I'm a bigger company. You know, press 1 to talk to Frisco. Press 2 to talk to Frisco's dog. That sort of thing. I tried skype but the echo and static was terrible. And I felt silly talking into my laptop.

Primarily, I'm using it to get faxes and to make sure people can always get ahold of me. I'm going to try doing some prescreening, "hi, I'm a php programmer with some ruby experience, no java, happy to take on whatever projects you want..." but really it's to keep me talking to people.

Because I needed faxing, I signed up for Ring Central. But you should make your own decision about mobile 800 numbers. It's cheap; I only need the $9.99/month plan.

No leads yet though. But maybe now that they can get hold of me, I'll start picking up some work. Wish me luck!