Comments on: Affordable Virtual Switchboard in the UK

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:42:38 +0000

Hi Kevin, thanks for your comment and you're welcome for the review. I agree, Press 1 is so simple to use and set up, it couldn't get any easier! Plus I've had no downtime with them at all unlike my previous switchboard. I really can't complain

By: Kevin B. Ahern

Kevin B. Ahern — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:18:44 +0000

I came across your article when I was setting up my business in Nov. I had tried a couple of virtual switchboard before but thought I would give press1 a go after reading your article. Most of the websites I looked at before were SO confusing with millions of services and it was totally unclear what they offered. I was so happy when I tried your press1 suggestion, it's a clean website, it's so easy to use and best of all it's very reasonable..thank you so much for the review.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:30:08 +0000

Hi Jay, my switchboard sends the number through and as we have caller line ID we can see who's calling (unless they withhold the number of course). I wish most of my clients just relied on email but unfortunately quite a few prefer to call, and at least with the switchboard they can have a business number that I can put straight to voicemail when I want to ie. out of hours!

By: Jay Roshwood

Jay Roshwood — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:11:22 +0000

Hi, intersting comments, I've been using a virtual switchboard for about a year, I also have an accomodation address too.
I've decided to drop the switchboard as the amount of calls I get is so low. Customers tend to communicate with me via email, or occasionally by snail mail to the accomodation address.
When I was running a property company I found the virtual switchboard great the only thing was that when they patched a call through it would show up as number withheld and so most times it went through to my voice mail. We had to change it so they sent a text instead.