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Nick Gowdy
Nick Gowdy
Online Marketing Manager at FreedomVOICE.
By Nick Gowdy on March 17, 2010
Are you locked into outdated, proprietary VoIP phone equipment? Looking for a good way out without facing a crushing capital expense?
Then there’s no better time to swap out your old, frustrating VoIP phones for a scalable, feature-rich FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX. That’s because right now Polycom is offering a rebate of up to $100 each [...]
Posted in Business VoIP, Hosted VoIP, Hosted VoIP PBX, VoIP Industry News, VoIP Phones | Tagged Hosted VoIP PBX, polycom soundpoint ip, voip phone trade-in, VoIP Phones |
By Nick Gowdy on March 11, 2010
Over the past few weeks, we’ve covered how a FreedomIQ Hosted VoIP PBX is great for dispersed workforces, providing advantages when it comes to telecommuting and connecting remote offices. But this is to take nothing away from a hosted VoIP PBX when it comes to supporting a large central office.
Today I’ll shine some light on [...]
Posted in Business VoIP, Hosted VoIP, VoIP Phones | Tagged call center solutions, call queue, call reports, Hosted VoIP PBX, record calls |
By Nick Gowdy on March 9, 2010
The growing pains associated with expanding your business can be a welcome problem – it’s certainly a problem more companies wish they had.
After all, who can complain about the costs of being successful?
Even so, planning ahead isn’t exactly a bad thing. One of the best ways to make sure you’re prepared is to invest in [...]
Posted in Business VoIP, Hosted VoIP, Telecommuting, VoIP Phones | Tagged business voip solutions, Hosted VoIP PBX, scalability, Telecommuting, VoIP Phones |
By Nick Gowdy on March 3, 2010
Do you have 1, 2, or 3 — 3 remote offices?
Ah-ah-ah-ah?
It’s time to get those offices synced up using a hosted VoIP PBX. Today we hone in on how the cutting-edge features of FredomIQ unifies your remote locations and provide your business with both the outward appearance and the operational efficiency of a single, centralized [...]
Posted in Business VoIP, Hosted VoIP, VoIP Phones | Tagged Business VoIP Solution, connect remote offices, Hosted VoIP PBX, Telecommuting |
By Nick Gowdy on December 9, 2009
Working with a cutting-edge technology like hosted VoIP, it’s not hard to find inspiration. We’re constantly pushing the envelope to build a better, faster, and stronger technology for our customers, and we love to hear feedback on how we’re doing. But today I thought I’d share different source of inspiration – one of the more [...]
Posted in Company News, Hosted VoIP | Tagged Brandjacking, Copyright, DMCA, FreedomIQ, Pirated Websites |
By Nick Gowdy on September 16, 2009
On Monday it was announced that Avaya had won the auction to acquire Nortel Enterprise Solutions for $900M plus another $15M for an employee retention program. Nortel, a behemoth Toronto-based telecom, was once seen as a motivating force for business VoIP PBX development. This year it has instead been hemorrhaging money, filing for bankruptcy, liquidating [...]
Posted in Business VoIP, Hosted VoIP, VoIP Industry News | Tagged Avaya buys Nortel, Business VoIP PBX, Enterprise Phone Systems |
By Nick Gowdy on July 8, 2009
As Google Voice approaches the point of being available to the masses, it’s garnering a lot of attention from mobile and hosted VoIP nuts (like me). In case you haven’t been following along as closely, Google Voice is a repackaged and retooled version of GrandCentral, a free “one number” VoIP voicemail service that Google bought [...]
Posted in Hosted VoIP, Managed Services, VoIP Industry News | Tagged Google Voice, GrandCentral, Skype, TalkText, unified communications, VoIP Service |
By Nick Gowdy on June 29, 2009
We’ve launched a brand new “sister” site over at www.freedomvoice.com. This fresh website shows the other half of FreedomVoice’s primary business communications arsenal: the toll free virtual office.
Our virtual office service is effectively, “FreedomIQ-lite,” removing the hosted VoIP phones but maintaining the same professional appeal and business efficiency of a one-number solution with virtual auto [...]
Posted in Company News, Managed Services | Tagged 800 numbers, FreedomVOICE, toll free numbers, virtual office service |
By Nick Gowdy on June 26, 2009
In 1919, Irish poet William Butler Yeats observed, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
While Yeats was talking about doom and gloom of the world in the wake of The Great War, his words ring true to the core of even the mundane day-to-day things we have, we use, and upon which we’ve come to [...]
Posted in Hosted VoIP, Managed Services | Tagged Hosted VoIP PBX, Managed Services, obsolete |