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Does Your Business Telephone Number Show Up Correctly in a Google Search? Here's How to Check it (and Fix it…) Google

The whole point of having a business phone number and a published listing is so people can call you and do business with you.

But until customers and prospects commit your phone number to memory or your business phone number earns a spot on their speed dial list, how do you suppose they're going to find your number?

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Want to Keep Competitors From Talking to Your Best Customers? Talk to them more yourself via web conferencing! Talk to your customers more with web conferencing

When your best customers don't have any problems they don't want to talk to any salesperson.

When they do have a problem they want to talk to the very next sales person they think might be able to solve their problem.

And that's a BIG problem – for you!

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What To Do When Public Business Internet Providers Fail?
Put Your Business on a Metro Ethernet or MPLS Private Network Ready for a private business network?

This past week it was reported that business customers around the globe suffered unexpected network service outages when two of the largest public Internet provers, Level3 and Time Warner, encountered routing problems with their Juniper Network hardware devices.

The outage only appeared to last for less than an hour but millions were affected in the United States and Europe.

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Is the Public Internet a Bad Place for your Business Internet Traffic?

When I sold my first Internet T-1 to a business customers a decade ago I was amazed that a business would spend over $800 a month to have their data "go really fast" as compared to what they would get with a slower dial-up Internet connection. Since that first "DIA" (dedicated Internet access) sale of mine the cost of a similar 1.5 meg business T-1 connection to the Internet has plummeted to under $300. Why?

I don't claim to really know why. More capacity, more fiber, more competitors? But does it really matter? As a business owner myself I'm pretty happy that my business phone calling costs is a fraction of what it used to be. And while my data costs are higher than what I used to spend with dial-up Internet, I now appear to have access to more Internet bandwidth than I can use over a consumer grade Verizon FiOS fiber connection out of my home office.

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