Sellsius did an excelent post this morning on GrandCentral. GrandCentral gives you one phone number that rings to all of your phones and provides all of your voicemail messages in one inbox. Incoming calls are free and unlimited.
It's feature packed, that's a fact.
I'm not going to rehash the Sellsius post, so do yourself a favor and click the links to check it out for yourself. What I AM going to do is demonstrate two of the features. The first you can see illustrated below my photo to the right. The "Call Me!" button is a free WebCall button, similar to the one offered by RealPing, only I think the extra options make it more valuable by a long shot.
One of those features that make it more valuable is the ability to record any call that has come into you by simply pressing the "4" key on your phone.
I had Julie Ferenzi call me to discuss her Plainfield Real Estate Blog, and I recorded the part of our conversation around GrandCentral's call recording feature. I just hit the number "4" on the telephone keypad and then hit it again when I wanted to stop recording. It not only records the call to an mp3 file that can be accessed from their control panel, it generates the embed code for the player you see here. Voila! instant podcasting feature.
I used it all day today, linking all of my phone numbers to my single GrancCentral number. Now, when you call me, it tries all of my phones at once. It's brilliant. So, if you call me and I don't answer, I'm either really busy, or I REALLY don't want to talk to you. :)
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