{"id":67,"date":"2008-11-19T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-11-26T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:21:22","slug":"privacy-for-home-based-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/security-issues\/privacy-for-home-based-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerned About Privacy for Your Home-Based Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"No \t\t\t\tPhone? No Problem.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

My initial reaction to the client who didn’t want to give out his \t\t\t\tstreet address or landline phone for customers to contact him \t\t\t\twas “No problem, you’ve got an email address and I’ll find you a \t\t\t\tfree voice mail service.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

One Google search and about \t\t\t\tten minutes later I found this \t\t\t\tfree voice mail system. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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You can choose to setup your account for playback only \t\t\t\t(announcement\/greeting) or playback and record (so callers can \t\t\t\tleave a message). You can tell the service to send you email notifications and\/or daily \t\t\t\tactivity statements or you go on-line to check your \t\t\t\taccount for messages and get reports.<\/p>\n

You can record your message at your computer (we used the \t\t\t\tfree audio recording and editing software from \t\t\t\tAudacity<\/a>) and \t\t\t\tupload it to your Simple Voice Box account. Once you’ve finished with your greeting, you’re ready to \t\t\t\treceive messages. See why they call it Simple<\/strong> Voice \t\t\t\tBox?<\/p>\n

There’s no limit on the length of messages you can receive \t\t\t\tor how long they can be stored. So you shouldn’t lose any \t\t\t\tmessages because a caller talked too long or the message got too \t\t\t\told.<\/p>\n

Note: This is NOT<\/strong> a voice-to-text service, so nothing \t\t\t\twill get lost in the translation. You’ll get an audio \t\t\t\trecording of the caller’s message (via email and\/or on-line, \t\t\t\tdepending upon how you set your options). This means \t\t\t\tyou’ll need to have your computer speakers turned on or be using \t\t\t\ta headset to listen.<\/p>\n

If you want to use the service to broadcast messages to \t\t\t\tcustomers or clients, you can set up an RSS feed or a podcast \t\t\t\tfor them to subscribe to.<\/p>\n

If email isn’t an acceptable way for customers to communicate with you OR you use an autoresponder and don’t want to list your street address to meet the CAN-SPAM laws, get yourself a local post office box. They’re relatively inexpensive. In my zip code the monthly rental starts at $3.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No Phone? No Problem.<\/p>\n

My initial reaction to the client who didn’t want to give out his street address or landline phone for customers to contact him was “No problem, you’ve got an email address and I’ll find you a free voice mail service.”<\/p>\n

One Google search and about ten minutes later I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[40,30,12],"tags":[35,56,32,84],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-start-up","category-phones-faxes","category-security-issues","tag-home-based-business","tag-solopreneur","tag-startup","tag-voice-mail","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}