Separate business phone number

Hey so I think I’m in a bit of a pickle.
So I used my personal phone for business for years, it’s on everything, but I’d like to have a separate number for personal, but i don’t want to pay for two lines.

I’m testing out Google voice, for the business, but I’ll probably end up transferring the company number there if possible.

How do you guys handle your phone line? one line or two?

I wish I had started with a Google voice number for the business off the get go.

Goggle wasn’t around when i started. I’ve had the same cellular phone number since about 1997 and that’s my business number. I hate it. Should have used a land line. Can’t change it now

? Why can’t you change it? You mean because you’re use to it? FYI you can change any cell number to a landline and vice versa. Google voice is great because you can easily redirect where the call goes.

I use go daddy smart line.
$4 a month. Works for me.

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I’ve been looking at Google Voice features this morning. I like the idea but I want to pick my own number 740-pwr-wash or pro-wash (possibly) or another easy number to remember. However, I am having a hard time getting through GV to set anything up. My fear is that I get a new add-on number and the app messes up/go defunct and now I can’t receive calls. I have read where people have had issues. I’m going to research further and see if it will be worth it. I am in real estate and always answer unknown calls using my name so I guess I can do that for both.

I’ve had Nextel/sprint since 1994 because I’m afraid they’ll lose my number if i charge cellular carriers. I don’t think you can port a cell number to a landline, but I’ll check into it. I use bing so I’m not sure what the google voice phone is. Will it work in a Motorola phone

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You can port to a landline…you would have to use 8x8 or another company to do it

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I use godaddy SmartLine as well. Works great. No complaints and completely affordable. It’s just an app to dl, so no need for two phones. When someone’s calling the SmartLine it rings a bit differently and shows up on the screen differently so you can answer the phone appropriately.

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You can port to a landline and vice versa. I’ve done it both ways. In some cases you have to port to a forwarder first but honestly I would just port to Google voice and you can direct the calls anywhere you want. Also with Google voice you can send specific numbers automatically to VM or automatically dump them. :slightly_smiling_face:

All that seems to chancy for me. I don’t want top to lose my business because my number gets lost in the internet

Bookmarked. Right now I have an out of state number…

Before I put my number on EVERYTHING :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

I had used my personal cell for years! It was never a big deal when I was a single free man. Now that I am a family man I have 2 lines. One for the business and one for personal. It took time to train people to call the business line. But it’s nice that when it comes time to get away from work I can leave the phone at home. Some of my wind energy clients have my personal cell but we aren’t talking about $200-400 pw jobs so I don’t want to miss those calls.

My Verizon plan has 3 iPhones and 4 iPad tablets all hooked up with unlimited gigs. It costs me $475 a month but each employee carries an iPad that I can track with the find my iPhone app

Neat that there’s a tracking feature

What do you do with wind energy?

7 devices for 475?!? Nice! I have two for like 120. Verizon also

I used to work safety on farms. I still have pilot cars that move the parts all around the country. Profit margins are not near what pressure washing is. Still profitable so I keep it around. I just txt my drivers who they are working with and they send me a mile report. Very little work on my end! Own the cars and Insurance and make sure my debit cards in their pockets have hotel and fuel money is about it!

Tablets don’t cost as much per line since it’s just data.

Oh so they move wind energy parts and you guys follow them around with flags?
I’m not to familiar with the pilot car industry
Cool that it pays for all that though

Oh ok

Yes in a nutshell. Kinda like rolling traffic control. Bill by the mile plus overnights ect.

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So do you get down and stop cars for turns and stuff?

Yep! When your 220 foot long you need some turning room lol