I have a medical supplies startup in the USA and have raised 75% of my target in a seed round. I also have a brand identity and logo paid for by my accelerator. We are starting business cards, we have a website, but I haven’t committed to a business phone number yet. I think it’s time to get one. I am the sole employee now, but anticipate hiring sales reps in the next 90 days.

What free/low-priced phone services have you used or do you recommend? Is there any reason to choose anything other than Google Voice? Thanks.

  • FlorAhhh@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Whichever one has the feature set you want. The phone aspect is a commodity, and it’s all about the same quality.

    But what sets things like other cloud VOIP providers apart from Google Voice is the ease of connecting tools like AI answering, phone trees, team messaging, call monitoring etc.

    If you have a CRM, find something that integrates with it well so you and your reps can just call from there and keep logs etc in the single source of truth.

    I used Google Voice as a sole proprietor for a few years, and it worked fine, but I wouldn’t use it for more than a few employees.

  • ivalm@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    We got open phone, and it’s great. But now we’re using hubspot sales for our CRM/sales automation and it comes with a voip phone and i kind of wish to use that integration. Unfortunately we paid for a yearly contract with open phone.

  • eandi@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Incoming only? Grasshopper for your size. Outbound, too? Open phone if the rates are good where you’re calling.