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Google Voice You need Google Voice What is Google Voice? Features Carriers Sign Up Install Mobile App (iPHone) This is not a comprehensive guide. It is heavily flavored in favor of iPhone. You will learn how to: set up a Google Voice account with an existing Gmail account, install a mobile app for your iPhone smartphone. If you have a Droid, GTS (Google that ‘stuff’) Created by Kaley Perkins for NMJMA April 2013 Cohort. All rights reserved.

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I created this tutorial for my journalism cohort. Google Voice is a limber and free solution for small business owners, freelancers, and indpendent contractors who want to have a phone number separate from their mobile number and don't want to pay for an additional phone bill. I have given the very basic explanation of why it might be useful, along with some of its limitations. As I went through the process myself, I tried to catch all the screenshots, but I'm sure I forgot some. Google will undoubtedly change their look and process as well, so how this ages remains to be seen. Use it as a guideline. I am not affiliated in Google other than being utterly dependent upon it for my email like the rest of the globe. In this tutorial, I did not exploit all of the features remotely. Google is Google: they have great tutorials, and might I suggest you avail yourself of them! Happy free business communications!

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Google Voice You need Google Voice What is Google Voice? Features Carriers Sign Up Install Mobile App (iPHone)

This is not a comprehensive guide. It is heavily flavored in favor of iPhone.

You will learn how to: set up a Google Voice account with an existing Gmail account, install a mobile app for your iPhone smartphone. If you have a Droid, GTS (Google that ‘stuff’)

Created by Kaley Perkins for NMJMA April 2013 Cohort. All rights reserved.

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You need Google Voice: You are a business person. You want to protect your privacy. Your business needs a phone. Now you have a personal phone AND a

business phone. Don't have two phones and two voicemails. Too much management. Too much money. Get Google Voice.

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What is Google Voice? GV is an add-on Google feature that lets

you manage multiple phone lines. GV syncs voicemails, texts, and emails

and lets you manage them in the dashboard of you Google account.

GV is free. GV is portable – no new # if you move. GV makes all communications mobile. GV works with all carriers, Big Guys best.

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Features: VOICEMAIL consolidates your voicemail transcribes voicemail to searchable text transcribed voicemail is texted and

emailed you don't have to listen to your

voicemails – you can read them configure this to suit you

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Features: TEXTSSend texts from any numberSend texts from Gmail or mobileReceive texts for all your numbersReceive texts as texts and GmailText & emails are word searchable in

Gmail

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Features: TEXT (con’t)Not supported

MMS International texts

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Features: CALLINGCall clients from email or mobile phone.Control the number your customer sees.Record calls, not yet reliable for phone

interviews Check applicable privacy laws

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Challenges Many choices for configuring – can

overwhelm. Porting phone numbers, Many preferences, many decisions. Call forwarding is buggy on smaller

networks (Sprint smoothest) To use via mobile phone, additional

iPhone App or Droid App must be downloaded and configured.

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SignUp: Agree to Terms

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Signup: New Number

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Signup: Add Forward #

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Signup: Select Your New #

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Signup: Which Do You Like?

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Signup: Manage Cell, GV

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Signup: Congrats! Your’re In

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Signup: First Message

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Installing Mobile App (iPhone) (I don’t have a Droid phone.) There are a couple of different apps. Check reviews (read reviews vs. trusting star

rating: three ratings at a five and 1000 at a three and a half can be the difference between someone’s friends rating a brand new, untested app and genuine field testing )

Look for later versions, they have been tested. But don’t trust them automatically: some updates can break what didn’t need fixing!

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2. Installing the App

Type in your Apple ID Password

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3. Installing the App

See the dark box to the right of the ‘e’? It’s loading.

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4. Move the Icon

Touch and hold the icon until it starts blinking and an ‘X’ appears

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5. Icon Next to Phone

If you like, drag the icon down so that it is next to your phone.

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6. Launch App

Enter your Gmail email address and password.

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6. Can App Use Your Location?

Do you want App to use your location?

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7. Can App Send Push Notifications?

Do you want App to send you push notifications?

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8. Welcome Screen w/ features

App integrates Mo+ and Google Voice with each other and with Email

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9. Notify Contact List of New #?

I say no: this is business phone; keep them separate.

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10. Congratulations: Ready to Use

More preferences for sure, but now we can use mobile App.

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11. The Main Navigation Screen

Let’s make a call using the key pad. Touch the Keypad icon.

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12. Let’s Call Someone

Dial some numbers. How about local pizza delivery?

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13. It’s Dialing…

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14. It’s Dialing…

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Sister is at work. Hang up so we don’t bug her.

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15. Let’s text someone

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Back to main navigation screen. Click ‘Messaging’

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16. Text Shows Up in Email

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Sent text from new GV # to existing cell phone #. Text hit existing Gmail account and correct text account.