Pricing varies depending on the features you choose. You can get everything from a toll free number and/or one voice mail box to a unified messaging aka a virtual PBX with the works. If all you need is a toll free number, shop your local Yellow Pages and the Internet for companies specializing in toll free numbers only. Or if all you need is one or two voice mail boxes for taking messages (and you’d rather not use an answering machine), begin with your local telephone company and then compare their prices to other such services. But now let’s talk “unified messaging, virtual office, virtual assistant and virtual PBX,” all of which generally mean the same thing: a single phone number that does it all for your callers, automates your communications and consolidates all your messaging, 24/7.
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