RingCentral Blog for Small Business

Best Practices and Innovations In Mobile Computing: How Small Biz Can Leverage Mobile Technology For Growth

Victoria Treyger is our Chief Marketing Officer at RingCentral, in this video Treyger discusses, among other things: 1- How mobility is driving changing communication behavior of SMBs shift to smartphones and tablets use vs. PCs and desk phones. 2- How the cloud is opening up the services available to SMBs and enabling increased productivity at [...]

Setting Up for Accessibility: Virtually Open 24/7

You wouldn’t want every business call to ring on your mobile while having dinner with your family, would you? But you can still be virtually available when away from the office. Unless you’d simply want to send all your callers to voicemail during social times, this blog is meant especially for you. Yes, you can [...]

How Technology Empowers Female-Owned Businesses

As a small business owner, I was quite amazed by a recent statistic which stated that small businesses account for more than 99 percent of employers in the United States. There is simply no denying the importance of small business owners and their ability to create jobs. And, a growing percentage of this vital segment [...]

Social Entrepreneurship: Why You Should Make It Your Business

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus won a Nobel Peace Prize for founding Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which encourages socio-economic growth at the grassroots level. This win put a particularly bright spotlight on the concept of social entrepreneurship. While the term has been in use since the 1960s, and was in fact popular in its own right [...]

Congratulations DeeDee Skidmore for Winning our iPad giveaway!

If you haven’t yet joined us on Google+ & Facebook to be amongst the first to get RingCentral promotions, offers, tips, and more, here’s another reason why you should! We just announced our winner for our iPad contest. Please congratulate DeeDee Skidmore for winning! DeeDee is an Austin (Texas) area Realtor that guides home buyers and [...]

Rebranding Your Company

We’ve all seen different incarnations of rebranding. Sometimes, it involves a name change. Other times, it just means updating the logo and the look of all your marketing materials. It may even involve changing the look of your actual products, or the way you interact with customers based on the new brand image. Rebranding is [...]

Directing Calls Based on Caller ID

Imagine you run a business that provides consultancy services to your customers. You have tasked Sally with servicing special accounts and Fred with corporate clients. If you’d like to avoid the expense of purchasing additional phone numbers to dedicate to each employee’s extension, how do you set up your RingCentral account so that Sally’s clients’ [...]

2012 Resources to Start or Maximize your Business

Happy 2012, everyone! With the New Year come new and better opportunities. This is why it’s a good idea to start a business at the beginning of the year. Of course, 2012 is extra special for small business startups because: Small businesses are getting a lot of positive attention, from both the government and consumers. [...]

Welcome Don Campbell To Our RingCentral Blog – A Consultant Helping Small Business Owners.

Don Campbell is a well-respected consultant helping small business owners to get their marketing and social media strategies aligned with their company mission to maximize their revenue. See Don’s bio for more information on his work and contact information. Don Campbell Speaker Bio – Brief Don Campbell is President of Expand2Web, which provides tools and [...]

RingCentral Ratings & Reviews Now on Facebook

Choosing the right product for your business is important. It’s a vote of confidence that reflects on you. To make the right choice, you rely on the opinions of other customers, which is why we’re launching a customer reviews section on our website. Starting today, RingCentral customers can share what they think about Office, Mobile [...]

RingCentral Survey Reveals Small Business Owners Embracing a Remote Workforce and Cloud Technology to Get Through the Holidays

Happy Holidays? Work Takes Top Priority This Holiday Season, Says RingCentral San Mateo, Calif. – December 13, 2011 – For small businesses across the nation, it’s business as usual this holiday season, thanks in part to the “cloud.” RingCentral, the industry leader for cloud-based business phone systems, released today the results of a survey of [...]

Using Multi-Level Extensions

“The trick is in recording a customized Introductory Greeting …” You may think that multi-level extensions cannot be incorporated on your RingCentral account. No, not directly. But there is a way for you to set up your account so that the extensions and departments appear to the caller like you have a multi-level [...]

It’s Cyber Monday!

Happy Cyber Monday, everyone! ‘Tis the season to be buying – online, that is – and one of the best ways to truly appreciate the spirit of this season is to look back at everything that makes it special. To help you celebrate this exciting day of deals, RingCentral is sharing some fascinating facts about [...]