YEP.... That's what I did... Why:
I have been getting so many sales calls on my Cell phone lately that when it starting ringing with a recorded message prompting me to press 1 to accept the call, I just figured it was another sales call and hung up!
Okay, darn, dang, shucks, and...much stronger language now that I realize what the heck I was doing.
You see, I'm the old dog (62) with the 32 years of experience in the real estate industry. My partner, Matt, is a 30 something stud that has a complete handle on the new technology. We had set up a Google number to track calls and follow the leads. The Google number was set to forward to Matt's phone and had been that way for months. I figured the young guy has got to pay his dues and take all those night time and week end calls...right?
Anyway, in July, Matt went on his annual family (all the guys) fishing trip in Montana and suggested that we might want to add my phone to the Google forward process. This would mean that the phone would ring to both of us at the same time and the first to answer, takes the call. We did this figuring that there was a good chance Matt would miss a bunch of calls on his fishing trip and, he was on vacation...
Guess I did not put two and two together...plus I didn't realize how many calls we were getting on the Google phone!
All I know is that this computer kept calling me and asking me to "punch in 1 if I wanted to....." and right about there I figured it was a sales call and hung up. Fortunately I only dumped 20 calls before I came to the realization that "this is weird" and I'd better check it out!
Here's the deal. Google numbers are great, just understand how they work and you won't be throwing your money away like I did.
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