I’ve worked freelance for a small company for a few months now and just got asked to join the team full-time. I’m super excited but stumped at this one: my new boss has been using his personal phone number as the business number and I feel like it’s too late to switch it to another number. This number is on the Google Business profile, the socials, every email sent over, and this business is almost 7 years old with a cache of customers knowing this number.

Any recommendations for number forwarding so I can start taking phone calls while he maintains this number? I’ve looked into Google Voice but I want a better idea about how this might work before I go into a meeting later this week as to how we should move forward.

Thanks for the help!

  • catmuppet@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can port the number somewhere like Voip.Ms (easier to set up) or Skyetel (need some technical know how and a VPS which adds some cost) and the number can be routed to an app like Groundwire on a phone or a physical desk phone (you can get older Cisco SPA504g’s on eBay for cheap) and then bossman can get a new number for his cell phone. Bossman can even install Groundwire and continue to get calls to the old number.