How to Transfer Phone Calls
If someone calls you at your office and you're not there, you could be losing money. Transferring calls allows someone from your office to send your calls either to your voice mail service or to a different phone at which you can be reached.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
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Subscribe to a phone service that allows you to transfer calls. You can transfer calls within an office or even from a landline telephone to a cell phone. Different phone calling plans will allow you different calling options.
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Put a caller on hold to start transferring phone calls from one line to another in the same place. You'll have to do different things, depending on your system. Generally, you put the caller on hold, dial the target's extension and hit "Transfer." You may want to make sure that the target person actually wants to talk with the person who is calling.
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Punch the right code into your home phone to transfer calls to any other phone. For Vonage phones, for example, you can direct an active call to any other number by pressing the "Flash" button, "#90," the phone number to which the call is being directed, then "#" again.
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Use a service such as Freedom800's Follow-Me-Live Call Transfer. This service allows you to customize your call-transfer options. You can select numbers from which you can be reached at any time and others that will be shuffled to voice mail. You can even program these options according to the time of the day. That way, family members can reach you at any time, while clients will get your voice mail when you're trying to have fun.
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Program your phone to allow unsupervised transfer. This means that incoming calls will shuffle between all of the numbers you've provided until one of them works. The codes for this vary, depending on what phone you're using, but you can try hitting "*73" to tell your phone what you want.
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