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Hurricane Harvey: How to Survive Disaster Scams
Disaster scams can rob you. Learn how to avoid becoming a victim of unscrupulous people after Hurricane Harvey. Whenever there is a major natural or other disaster, disaster scams begin to appear. It happened with Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, and it’s no surprise that bad people will try to exploit Hurricane Harvey too. Disaster scams quickly begin to spread. Within days of Hurricane Katrina, about 4,000 websites appeared claiming to offer help to victims; however, the FBI investigated and presumed [...]
Ensuring Your Phone System Is a Business Enabler
If you make money using the phone, then your phone system needs to be a business enabler, not an inhibiter. It needs to differentiate your business from your competition. Your prospects must be able to reach you in a timely manner. Your customers need to find you wherever you are, at the front desk, in a meeting or outside the office. In short, your phone system needs to work for you, not against you. Your business communications system needs to [...]
10 Ways Your Phone System Improves Your Customers’ Experience
Business competition in today’s economy is fierce. Your customers expect the highest level of care, and you and your staff need to be reachable, professional and customer-focused at all times – no matter where you’re working. If that’s your business model, is your phone system supporting you and your employees like you need to support your customers? Use this checklist to evaluate if your business communications gives your customers the experience they expect from their chosen providers. Any items checked [...]
3 Ways Unified Communications Maximizes Your Control
With so many phone system options to pick from, it’s difficult to know which one will fully support your business. But you do know one thing: your current phone system no longer meets your company’s changing needs. So you do what any smart business person does – you conduct a thorough assessment of your options. You quickly learn that what you need is a unified communications system that will integrate with your current business applications at a reasonable cost. Most [...]
New Mortgage Scam
The American Dream, to own our slice of realty, is something most of us work toward. It can be exciting to have a place of your own to plant roots and start up a new life. After all the searching and the negotiating, you're finally ready to sign the contract... and then find out your settlement fees have been stolen. Hackers have been using an email and money wiring scam in order to steal closing deposits from buyers. They've been [...]
Be on the Alert for Tax Refund Fraud & Scare Tactics
Tax season is here — and for some people, so is an experience with tax identity theft or IRS impostors. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it received 109,063 complaints last year about tax-identity theft. Tax identity theft happens when someone uses your Social Security number to get a tax refund or a job. You usually find out something’s wrong after you file your tax return (one reason to file early). Also, IRS imposters work year-round placing aggressive, threatening phone [...]
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