How to Start a Virtual Office for a Real Estate Agency
Internet Phone Service for Real Estate Agency
Surprisingly, it’s not difficult or expensive to start a virtual office for a real estate agency
Starting an online virtual pbx to host your virtual real estate agency, you can manage the entire office online from anywhere where there’s an internet connection.
Selecting your virtual phone number is the first step you take in the creation of your virtual real estate office. Once your phone line is up and running you can begin to set-up extensions to departments you want callers directed to.
For example, you can have one extension created as your appointment desk so that calls are routed to the person handling appointment requests. You can have another extension up and running for generic information, such as address, fax numbers and email addresses, as well as an extension for the accounting number. You can also create a dial-by-name directory for callers to get directly through to the sales rep they’re looking for.
With an internet connection, the beauty of this system is the complete online management capability from anywhere in the world where there's an internet connection. If you’re set-up so that one person is responsible for multiple departments, then that individual can log-in online from anywhere to retrieve and handle messages including from home.
You can extensions for your phone system from anywhere. Lets say you have an Accounting Department that is essentially one person, your bookkeepper, and that bookkeepper does not physically work in your office, you can set-up an extension at his or her location. You can do this a number of ways such as fowarding calls to him/her, or by an actual physical extension dedicated to that individual. You can also forward calls to cell phones, other phone lines, or home numbers.
On the flip side, if you have a larger accounting department, no problem, simply set-up extensions for each person in the department. Also, each extension can set-up there own caller greetings, voicemail or forwarding.
There are numerous other features that come with this full virtual phone system, features such as music on hold, outlook expresss integration, call forwarding, and more. The use, affordability, and functionality of starting a virtual office for a real estate agency is ideal for any brokerage looking to modernize the way they manage calls.
by Barbara Cipak, My-Telework-Tools.com
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