South Jersey Techies

South Jersey Techies is a high quality VOIP provider.

Our VOIP Solutions let you combine voice and data into a single, easy to manage service and helps you focus on your business, not your network and phone systems.

You can control how your calls are routed from a simple, web based portal accessible from any browser in the world. Use the Find-me/Follow-me feature to make sure you never miss another important call, no matter where you are. With this premium level feature, you get to decide which business calls get through to you at your desk, your cell phone or even at home if you like. You also get to decide which callers go directly to voice mail without even ringing your line.

South Jersey Techies offers a wide range of VOIP Phone Services.  We also offer cheaper, simpler plans that include both local and nationwide long distance calling.

With our hosted VoIP solution there is no expensive PBX equipment in your office to go down, fail or get damaged during a storm. Only your IP phone handsets reside in your office, and those can be easily taken out and moved at any time.

“Go VOIP – Go Green – it has a good ring to it don’t you think”

South Jersey Techies VoIP systems are more energy efficient and help reduce the need for work related travel and car usage.  Our VOIP Solutions also help reduce paper usage. A great example of this is the fax to e-mail system enabling your company to save on paper usage as the fax no longer has to be printed out, and this applies to both incoming and outgoing faxes.

South Jersey Techies VOIP Advantages:

• Lower Costs: Save money by combining your phone and data networks
• Greater Functionality
• Less maintenance
• Excellent Voice Clarity and Call quality
• Free calling features with optional advanced features
• Mobility: The ability to use your smartphone as an extension of the office phone system, including the ability to have business calls automatically directed to your cell phone and make outbound calls from your smartphone as your office number.
• Portability: The ability to use any computer or office phone as your personal extension.
• Flexibility: The ability to redesign your phone system on the fly by simply logging into your VoIP provider’s dashboard.

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RingCentral is a company that specializes in providing business VoIP services, fax services and mobile communication solutions. RingCentral is moving from one (1) Office product to multiple Office editions with differentiated feature or functionality.

New Pricing Editions

Effective July 4th, RingCentral Office has changed to an editions pricing model (US Only).  Each edition now includes specific feature sets and is priced differently.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do existing Office customers get moved to new editions?

No.  Existing customers or users will continue to be granted a special exception on their current plans: Entrepreneur, Office Metered Toll-Free (MTF) and Office Unlimited.

Q:  Can existing users be upgraded to the new editions?

Yes.  They can use the upgrade wizard.

Q:  What are the benefits of these new Office editions?

The new editions offer the following:

• Offers you flexibility to select the best feature or functionality set based on your business needs at a low monthly price.
• Enables your large business to move up the market through enterprise level capabilities.
• Provides one complete solution for any location and any number of employees.
• Enables advanced call management and phone system administration.
• Lets you manage, access, and use on smartphones and tablets.

Q:  What are the differences among the new Office editions?

There are various differences among the new editions, namely:

Standard:  Cloud PBX with call management features and mobile apps, unlimited calling/faxing/texting/conferencing and 1000 toll-free minutes.

Premium:  All Standard edition features, Salesforce CRM integration, Automatic call recording, Premium support for 10+ users and 2500 toll-free minutes.

Enterprise:  All Premium edition features and unlimited toll-free minutes

Refer to the table below for more information:

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For more information regarding RingCentral,

please contact us at 856-745-9990 or click here.

The Genie in the Phone Cloud: Top 5 Small Biz Features

Entrepreneurship is at an all-time high and innovative small businesses are sprouting and flourishing. Personal service, attention to detail, and feeling good about supporting local and sustainable companies are some of the most popular reasons people choose the little guy over big, aggressive brands.
Maybe you sell delectable gluten-free scones out of a food truck, or are a general housing contractor with a small team of employees. Being great at your trade is one thing, but there’s also the matter of managing communications and connecting smoothly with your customers. With a cloud-based phone system from RingCentral, small businesses are able to walk (and talk) in big business shoes. You can become the wizard behind the curtain, orchestrating spectacular feats with ingenuity and some smart technology.

The Auto-Receptionist is always in and on

Your Auto-Receptionist is the personal assistant that never calls in sick! You or your administrator set the parameters so you can be reached anytime and everyplace. Define the routing criteria, and you’re connected to customers, vendors, and your cycling group, with calls forwarded to multiple numbers and devices, text-to-speech translation of messages, and department-specific messaging. Want someone with a crisp English accent orating your menus for callers? Greetings are customizable, and you can even source professional talent for your recordings. Your three-person organization can perform with the finesse and functionality of a traditionally larger and more established operation.

Unlimited Toll-Free, Local, and Vanity Numbers

Your phone number says a lot about you. Literally it could spell out a memorable word or two. A standard toll-free number, including the classic 1-800 number, tells your customers you’re well established and ensures that your customers can reach you at no cost to themselves. Choose a few local numbers for areas you want to service and instantly become a hot, new, neighborhood business.

Yes, that’s my Department

Getting dumped into a general voicemail box or simply not being able to reach someone in a timely manner is alienating for callers and can send potential customers searching for a more responsive and better-prepared business. Instead, create virtual departments with a group of extensions as a fantastic way to add real structure to your business and make it easy for your contacts to connect with you. For example, create the ‘Sales’ department and when the designated reps aren’t available, the system puts callers on hold until someone can take the call. Hold times can be customized as well, so your callers never feel lost or unimportant.

Get ahead with Call Forwarding

So what happened to the caller on hold for sales? Realizing every second counts and all’s fair in love and brand loyalty, you set Call Forwarding to reach you or another contact after, say, a 30-second hold time. The call instantly goes to your business partner’s mobile phone. If they’re also not available, the call finds the next contact and, as a last resort, it routes to the extension at your poolside cabana in Orlando. You can set specific parameters for After Hours as well and avoid the cost (and antiquated style) of an outside answering service.

The thrill of the (easy) chase

You want your business to be pursued and easily caught. FindMe-FollowMe is the cyber stalker you’re glad to have on your side. You control connectivity by directing incoming calls to any and all your phones, whenever you want. You can even set it to call multiple phones simultaneously, in a specific order and even by date, time, the caller’s Caller ID, or the number dialed.

You had the vision and grit to launch your business, and the progressive thinking to ditch the room full of obsolete and costly phone system hardware. Your contacts will be amazed at how you always seem to magically appear when they need you. Building a successful business starts with the basic steps like establishing a phone system, and being easily reachable by customers whenever they need to reach you.

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Why pay more than you have to every month? These tips, tricks, and services can help you SAVE plenty of money on that monster cell phone bill.

See that cell phone next to you? Unfortunately, you’re paying too much money for it–every month. If overpaying for what you need sounds like a bad idea to you, stop doing it. We’ve assembled 12 simple actions that you can take to reduce your cell phone bill, so that some of the cash you now spend for service–maybe even half of it–remains in your possession. So check out our tips, and use one or more of them to save big bucks on your bill.

Covering the Basics

1. Find the right plan for you: Carefully review how often and in what ways you use your phone. Ideally, you should do this before signing a cell phone contract, but of course it can be difficult to know exactly how you’ll use your phone until you spend time with it every day.

If you’re already using your phone, take a close look at your cell phone plan, examining the calling, messaging, and data plan options you’ve chosen. Then scrutinize your usage pattern. Check several months of phone bills to see whether you pay for more minutes and megabytes than you use, or whether you regularly exceed your usage limits.

How much can I save? Let’s use a Verizon Wireless plan as an example

Possible Savings on Monthly Cell Phone Voice Plan (One Example: Verizon Wireless)

On the other hand, if where you exceed the 450-minutes-per-month maximum just once during the life of your two-year service plan–even if you exceed it by a lot that one time, you still come out ahead with the lower limit overall. Suppose that you incur $157.50 in overage fees one month but stay under the 450-minute limit during the other 23 months of the service contract. Then you’ve saved overall by opting for the $39.99-per-month contract instead of the $59.99-per-month contract, since paying $20 more each month for 24 months would cost you an extra $480. Suddenly, that one-time surcharge of $135 seems like a bargain.

2. Trim the fat: Examine your cell phone plan to see what services you’re paying for above and beyond your voice and data plan. Are you paying your carrier for mobile insurance? A GPS service? Roadside assistance? Visual voicemail? Then think about whether you need these extras. In the case of voicemail, for example, your call log shows you the name and number of incoming callers, anyway–and that’s free.

How much can I save? This time, let’s use AT&T as an example.

Monthly Costs of AT&T’s Extra Services

Opting out of just half of these billing add-ons can save you anywhere from $7.97 to $26.97 each month.

Get the Details on Data

3. Go data-free: Kick it old-school style by dropping your data plan altogether. This option may not be available if you’ve purchased a smartphone that requires a data plan; but for some consumers it’s a sensible move.

And it is possible: When my iPhone 4 suffered a fatal fall recently, I went back to my elderly flip phone and relied on an iPod Touch for apps and Internet services. When I wanted to check email or browse the Web, it was Wi-Fi only.

My pockets were heavier, in part because I was carrying two devices around, but also because my pockets had more cash in them thanks to my lower monthly bill.

How much can I save? $15 to $50 a month, or more.

4. Go on a data plan diet: Not ready to opt out of a data plan completely? Try cutting back instead.
Opt for the lowest-tiered data plan that your carrier offers, and make sure that you stay within your limits. Visit WhatIsMyCap.org, a handy site that offers tips on avoiding overage charges, using your current data plan as an example.

Also, find out what apps are claiming most of your bandwidth; the culprits may be obvious ones like Pandora and Netflix, or sneaky ones like Google Maps that increase your data usage by serving up ads.

How much can I save? $15 to $35 a month, or more.

5. Compress, compress: Having trouble reducing your data usage? Check out Onavo’s free iPhone and Android app, called Onavo Extend, which claims to make your data usage up to five times more efficient.

How much can I save? $15 a month or more.

Shake Things Up

6. Switch carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless are the big four in cell phone service, but they’re hardly your only options.

Signing up with a smaller carrier, like Boost Mobile or US Cellular, can cut your monthly cost significantly

How much can I save? Boost Mobile offers an unlimited Android Plan for $55 per month, and an unlimited BlackBerry Plan for $60. (Both of these plans cover unlimited nationwide talk, text, Web access, 411 service, instant messaging, and email.)

In contrast, opting for a similar plan from Sprint, which is one of the only big carriers still offering an unlimited data plan option, will cost you $99.99 a month for unlimited voice, data, and messaging.

How much can I save? $40 to $45 per month.

7. Go contract free: It may seem counterintuitive, but one way to lower your monthly cell phone bill is to go contract-free. This isn’t the same as buying a prepaid cell phone (we’ll get to that next); here, you still pay your carrier month-to-month for cellular service, but you pay less. The trade-off is that you pay more for the phone itself up-front. But depending on the phone you choose, you could save big in the long run with this strategy.

How much can I save? You’ll pay T-Mobile $350 for its MyTouch Android phone, but you won’t sign a contract. A monthly service plan from T-Mobile with unlimited talk, text, and data costs $59.99 per month, so the cost of buying and using this phone (spread over two years) is about $1790.

That may sound like a lot, but consider this: It’s actually a savings of $180 over buying the phone with a two-year contract. In the latter case, T-Mobile subsidizes the cost of the phone, so the same myTouch device will cost you just $50, but the monthly service charge rises to $79.99 (or roughly $1920 over the life of the contract). So over two years, the total cost of the same phone and service comes to $1970–and you’re locked into a 24-month service contract.

8. Go prepaid: Paying for your phone service ahead of time is a sure-fire way to save money. After all, it guarantees that you pay only for minutes that you’ll use. And prepaid phones have come a long way in recent years, with carriers offering various cell phones and smartphones with prepaid plans.

How much can I save? With one of Virgin Mobile’s prepaid “PayLo” plans, you can spend as little as $20 per month for cell phone service. The lowest-cost plan includes 400 voice minutes.

charges messages (at 15 cents per message) and data (at $1.50 per megabyte of data used) on this plan against your $20 balance, and your credits are valid for 30 days. In one month, a light user could save as much as $40 off the price of a standard cell phone plan with messaging and data from a major carrier.

9. Dump the smartphone: Sure, your smartphone is cool. And you may think that you can’t live without it…but giving it up can be surprisingly easy. If you can’t bear to surrender access to the Web, email, and apps, try using a Wi-Fi-device, such as an iPod Touch, instead.

How much can I save? $15 to $50 a month–that’s how much you’re likely paying for the data plan on your smartphone.

Use the Web to Your Advantage

10. Go VoIP only: If you’re paying for a data plan on that smartphone, why not put it–and your phone’s Wi-Fi access–to good use?
Fring is one of a number of budget-friendly Voice-over-IP phone services.Dump your voice plan (if your contract permits you to, of course) and use a voice-over-IP service, such as Fring, Google Voice, or Skype, to make calls. A PCWorld writer took the plunge, and lived to tell the tale. Voice quality may not be perfect, but when was the last time your cell phone offered perfect voice quality?

How much can I save? $40 a month, or more–whatever the monthly cost of your voice plan is.

11. Get texting help: When it comes to texting, you probably think that you have to pay for a texting plan (at anywhere from $5 to $20 per month) or have to pay a per-message fee (of around 20 cents).

But you have a third alternative, and it’s free: Use an app to text at no charge. Free texting apps–which include Nimbuzz, WhatsApp,GroupMe, among many others–let you text and IM for free, using popular messaging networks such as Facebook and AIM.
You may have to get your friends or family to sign on in order to obtain completely free texting, but convincing them of the app’s merits is likely to be worth your while.

How much can I save? When you kiss your texting plan goodbye, you’ll be able to pocket an extra $5 to $20 per month.

12. Get outside help:Not sure which path will save you the most money? Get help at BillShrink.com. This very cool site analyzes your cell phone usage (you can grant it access to your account or enter the information manually), and points out plans that will save you money while meeting your needs.

How much can I save? BillShrink alerted me to a $30-per-month plan on T-Mobile that would save me about $50 per month.

And when I requested to keep using an iPhone, it alerted me to a $70-per-month plan on Sprint, which would save me $10 per month or more. (AT&T charges for data overages, while Sprint offers unlimited data.)

I think it’s time to make a change.

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I have a small business that is growing rapidly- I hope to double my payroll
this year. My need for comprehensive business services is going to grow even
faster than my staff. We are a technical company that offers services over the
phone, as well as personal service right to our client’s locations. That means
we need to be able to receive calls, transfer them to our reps in the field, and
have them be able to transfer calls right back to the office all on the same
phone system. Up until now, we have been using a plan from a business cell phone
company, but as we grow, we are going to need a service to handle our own PBX.
That’s a private branch exchange- basically our own internal business phone
service. The days of ‘family plan,’ style business phone services are
(thankfully) behind us.

We are going to be moving into a multi- floor office building, so we will
need a service that can provide my people with business phone lines at their
desks, but also with cell phones that are part of the same system. I need to be
able to monitor and record calls, direct clients to the right place with a
short, simple automated system, and even make automated message calls to clients
at their request. Basically, I’m pretty sure we need everything a business phone service
could offer. I need one that does it all- but don’t let that fool you; we’re
still a small business with only about one hundred regular clients.

I have been looking into enterprise business services for business cell phones, and it is a
complicated world. There are a lot of companies that make bold, vague promises
about ‘providing solutions,’ ‘business services,’ etc. There’s lots of smug,
high-brow language that does not say very much. I won’t know if a company can
help me, and for how much, until I actually tell them what I need. We are in a
precarious position- needing a lot of different services but still being
relatively small, so I want to avoid the big companies. I don’t want to get
locked into a service that has an attractive introductory deal and then held in
by a complicated contract. I want a company that just handles business phones. I
want a small, dedicated company like mine to handle our phone system for
life.