The only talents needed to start a home based telephone answering service are a pleasant telephone manner and excellent communication skills. Business owners, professionals and sales consultants are ...

April White - Author, The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier In the spring of 1900, twenty-four years after Alexander Graham Bell introduced ...

A telephone answering service business requires very little equipment to start, and can be run from your home. The telephone is still an essential business tool, and business professionals rely on ...

If your business receives phone calls, use the storage and processing power of your computer to organize your messages. Modern telephony products offer a large number of options for connecting a phone ...

Telephone answering machines were almost a fad. They were hindered for years by not being allowed to connect to the phone lines. Then a mix of cell phones and the phone company offering voicemail made ...

Just a decade ago, telephone answering machines were the butt of jokes, the object of scorn. Widely available since the late 1970s, they were just a blip on the consumer scene in the early ’80s. As ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Coleman is a U.K.-based journalist who covers entrepreneurs. Countless startups are launched because their founder was ...

One of my aunt’s clients was the lyricist and playwright Adolph Green, who based a musical on her life as an answering ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1971, PhoneMate introduced the ...

When Keith Van Horn was 6, his father retired from Bell of Pennsylvania and had a telephone switchboard installed in the bedroom he shared with his wife. It was 1963, and the start of Van Horn’s ...