I am a huge fan of Google voice. I use it for both my personal, and professional life. I am able to set up rules for contact groups that define many different scenarios. I like that I can give my Google voice number to my family and close friends and know that I can be reached no matter where I am – I can and do ring multiple phones. For business I can ring my office AND my cell ONLY during business hours and then after business hours only my office line is rung or people are sent right to voice mail. The list of really cool things that can be done is just limited to your imagination.
I am constantly asked for tips on how I do all this so I put together as many good and simple tips as I could find in this post. There are sure to be many many more if you just search for ‘Google Voice Tips’.
BIG TIP: To edit or create forwarding schedules you need to us “Legacy Google Voice” which is the old format.
Under that format, you can forward calls on a schedule (calls, edit, advanced settings).
To get a Google voice number you will of course need a Gmail/Google account.
You can get that here
Then sign up for Google voice here
Find and choose a number locally (or actually in any area code you prefer). I recommend doing a search for something that has a mnemonic – like ‘coffee1’ (263-3331) or some other easy to remember number.
And before you ‘set up’ your Google voice number check out these articles and walk through’s.
Great Google Voice information:
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFVXAqFNgic&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q9MJdT5Ds&feature=player_embedded
http://lifehacker.com/5311254/how-to-ease-your-transition-to-google-voice
http://mycraniumdrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-on-google-voice.html
And here are some other excellent video demonstrations and how to’s. They are short, quick and easy to follow:
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