RingCentral changes their site design!

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Got some news for you! Today I found that RingCentral have changed their homepage design!
It is more comfortable and easy to use than the previous one, I think.
Now it is easy to find necessary services and it seems to me that many useless info is gone from the homepage, but maybe it is just correctly placed now?
Due to the new color pallette of the page it became more comfortable to read and orient.
As for the main menu, it was also optimized and made like a dropdown menu, everything was sorted by categories, it allows to find necessary info by simply choosing right category tabs.
Fonts, keys and distance between headers were increased and it also makes the homepage more comfortable to use!
Sign up forms are united now and the sign up button was moved to the right part of the page and increased and is more noticeable now.
Also, I would like to note that the new design is modern and trendy, and it is so important in nowadays due to a huge number of sites.
It is clear that the site design change is the correct and necessary company step, because of the specificity of the product, many potential and existing clients come to the site to find information about the offered services and it is necessary to make the homepage maximally informative and comfortable. I think they achieved it!

You can find new design here. I hope this article will be interesting for you. I will be glad to receive your comments!

Holiday Shopping Safety Tips

Hey! Holidays are coming! To spend nice and not being upset you should read some tips below! Enjoy!

Here are some ideas suggested by crime prevention specialists to help boost your holiday shopping safety and security, and help conquer these holiday evildoers:

1. Carry only the credit cards, cash and checks you will need for your shopping. In general, it is best to avoid carrying large amounts of cash — use credit cards or checks, if possible, to make your purchases.

2. If your credit card is stolen, misused or lost, be sure to notify your credit card issuer at once. In fact, it’s a good idea to keep a complete inventory of your credit cards at home, along with their 800 numbers, just in case of these types of mishaps.

3. If you need to use an ATM while shopping, remember to use one located inside a busy, well-lit location and to withdraw only the amount of cash you actually need. Also, protect your PIN (personal identification number) by shielding the ATM keypad from any person who may be standing near you (and do not give out your PIN to anyone), and don’t throw way your ATM receipt at the ATM location. And remember, don’t “flash your cash.”

4. Don’t carry a purse or wallet, if possible, as they are the prime targets of thugs, even in crowded shopping areas.

5. Avoid wearing flashy or expensive jewelry.

6. Pickpockets and other petty bandits are looking for easy scores, so it might be a smart idea to carry cash, your identification and credit cards in your front pocket. If you do carry a shoulder bag, it’s best to carry it in front of you.

7. Stay alert at all times — even though there are a million things on your mind and you have a dozen things to do, be aware of your surroundings. Law enforcement calls this concept “situational awareness.” Remember, crooks will be more likely to confront you if they think you are distracted.

8. If you have a mobile phone, be sure to carry it on your person while shopping for added security. If you don’t have a mobile phone, you might consider getting one as a holiday gift — for yourself.

9. Try to avoid driving alone or at night, and travel on busy, well-lit roads. Keep your doors and windows closed while in or out of your vehicle. Park was close as you can to your shopping and remember where you have parked.

Hosted 800 Service: my1voice offers Click-to-Dial

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Several weeks ago I wrote my1voice: Virtualization Made Easy, and I ended with a notation that I'd be giving the my1voice a "free" trial run. I'm not ready to give up our IP-PBX just yet because it's too well embedded in our infrastructure and it works great. Instead I'm suggesting some value and what I'm referring to just may resonate among some customers.

We've been paying an account fee on our 800-service for several years. While our bill isn’t killing us in any sense, it has been on the table for discussion mainly because of the account charges to just maintain 800 services with Verizon. We canned the idea of going SIP because our carrier hasn't perfected keeping that alarm button on my phone turned off –meaning no downtime. When the folks at Protus discussed their many hosted PBX telephony features in the previous interview, I focused on one feature that they didn't make a big deal about--"Click-to-dial." For us it meant goodbye carrier and hello hosted provider.

Click-to-dial with my1voice made my day when our trial account was activated. Of course I received a new 800 number and within a couple of minutes I logged into their console to customize my account. In a few more minutes I activated the feature "click-to-dial" and copied HTML snippets over to our web pages. Testing the service and confirming that customer/prospect Click-to-dial calls from our web pages did in fact ring in--that was easy too. my1voice made it easy to do business.

Secondly, when potential customers hit your website, giving them the option to connect moves prospects onto the magical red carpet closer to sales or in establishing a relationship.

The third thing I like about Click-to-dial is that customers that hit our secure area to download software updates or obtain technical or user information and documentation can also use the feature if they have a question or are feeling stuck. When David Bryan wrote in Are We Falling Victim to Our Own Success? That,"the voice community needs to remember that what is important is connecting people, not how we do it," I took David to heart because I think that his point is what the voice community does need to hear, understand and moreover act upon. I'd only add to David's advice that once you connect people, then the real challenges begin.

No more monthly 800-account fees, slightly better rates, and some communications glue that facilitates Web calls--that's value. The process with my1voice was painless as was porting over our 800 numbers. We can also login anytime to review our calls and history or to make changes. Thinking back over the course of our company history, I've never had more of a hybrid telecommunications solution even when we had a "hybrid"--

* An IP-PBX that supports our TDM proprietary phones,
* An ACD with reporting built into our Voice Mail/Auto Attendant system,
* IP, SIP and wireless (multi-line) phones & analog devices and geeky gizmos,
* UC and management features/tools on the desktops,
* Verizon Centrex--a step above POTS but with undeniable reliability,
* SIP trunks serving as a real cheap LD alternative, and
* A hosted 800 number to deliver cool features.

Skydiving Scammers Hit Valley

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A Phoenix attorney alleges a company has scammed more than $23 million out of consumers nationwide, and an Arizona company that's been a major target said, "Enough is enough."About 75,000 people believe they were scammed when they forked over big bucks to what they thought was a reputable skydiving company.It's a scam that targeted thousands of people searching the Web for a skydiving company, only to be conned out of hundreds of dollars, officials said."With very little investment, they were able to divert hundreds and hundreds of customers, specifically looking for my client, to their Web site, where they took the people's money before they ever revealed who they really were," said Skydive Arizona attorney Sid Leach.Leach said he knows all about the scam. He just won more than $6 million in damages from the con artists for his client, Skydive Arizona.It's the biggest skydiving company in the country, something the alleged scammers used to lure folks in, Leach said.Leach said the scammers set up Web sites and 800 numbers boasting the same amenities Skydive Arizona has. Leach said when people would call to confirm they had the right company, they were told yes, they called Skydive Arizona.In reality, they were talking to a group of people based in Atlanta, Leach said. Sometimes the consumers were sent to an airfield and taken on what Leach called an "unsafe dive," something Skydive Arizona would never do.Other times, Leach said, they got nothing at all."The feeling of violation, where you trusted something, and obviously you have to be a lot more careful these days and not just trust what you see on the computer," said Susan Lipper, who was victimized.But the scam isn't just about skydiving. Since it was a civil suit, the company is still out there. Leach said he's sure they're branching out into other phony Web sites, trying to rip off a new demographic of unsuspecting people.Leach said he recently contacted Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, asking his office to do something to shut these people down altogether.

Ring Central Online

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Ring central offers you a latest and spanking new internet phone system with a toll free numbers delivers and all the immense powers as a big company.

Ring central offers you a latest and spanking new internet phone system with a toll free 800 numbers delivers and all the immense powers as a big company. With this Ring central also offers you an opportunity to improve your company's professionalism over the phone and you can also manage incoming calls with answering system and Outbound VoIP choice with Digital line

You can as well access this power of Ring Central behind your company for just $9.99 a month in minute's time online itself. No hardware or any technical skills is required. Ring Central is the foremost virtual phone system developed specially to meet up the requirements of small businesses and mobile professionals. It's the influential, cost-effective innovative way to deal with business communications. You can also sign up for a free trial.

Ring Central 800 Numbers

Here is some new info about RingCentral services. Read and enjoy!

Small business can now compete with huge corporations with this facility. It serves to be a professional advantage for the small business to prove their mettle with the right technological help.

Ring central now offers its clients the much needed authority and advantage of an 800 number through its Business package. These numbers come as a value addition to Ring central business package. Clients can now select their own 800 numbers. This enhances their professional image to their business contacts and clients. Vanity 800 numbers are perfect for customer service or for sales hotline purposes as it boasts of easier recalling.

The toll free number is activated instantly. It paves way for easier communications within and outside the company as it can be instantaneously connected to the existing phone lines. Small business can now compete with huge corporations with this facility. It serves to be a professional advantage for the small business to prove their mettle with the right technological help.

Do Millionaire Investors Get Better Deals?

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In 2007, the term “moving upstream” was all the rage in private banking and brokerage.

Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney and others were focusing on true millionaires to reap bigger rewards. The merely affluent were shuttled off to ATMs and 1-800 numbers.

The reasoning: the biggest profit came from those with the biggest wealth.

Now, the banks seem to be reversing themselves. And it isn’t just because of the falling millionaire population.

A Reuters article quotes Enrique Marazuela, chief investment officer at the fund management arm of Spain’s BBVA, saying that serving clients of lesser wealth is actually more profitable than serving the ultrawealthy.

Customers with 100,000 euros to 300,000 to invest ($147,180 to $441,540) were “much more profitable” and generated business with gross margins of more than 1% of assets under management, he said. For customers with more than two million euros to invest, the gross profit margin was “below 1%,” he said.

Why? For starters, competition for the multimillionaire client is fiercer than for the merely affluent. Those with $100 million or more of investible assets are constantly given freebies, deals, discounts and incentives to open accounts that give a wealth manager more prestige and a huge pile of assets under management.

But perhaps the biggest reason is that larger clients often are more sophisticated. They behave more like institutions, able to scan the market for the best spreads, prices and opportunities.

The thinner margins are further proof of one of the wealth-management industry’s open secrets: the rich tend to get better deals than the merely affluent.