Introducing Live Call and Chat Control in My Halloo

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of live call and chat controls to My Halloo. You will be able to receive and place calls directly through your browser using the build-in audio of your laptop or device.

My Halloo Live Interaction panel showing live call and chat instances.
Live call and chat control in My Halloo
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Is a Vanity Number the Right Choice for Your Business?

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Is your company ready to try a new growth strategy? Consider choosing a toll-free vanity or mnemonic phone number for your organization. By doing this, you will choose a phone number that spells out a phrase or name. It’s powerful because it’s much easier for customers to remember a vanity number than a random string of numbers.

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Don’t Be Lax This Tax Season

Tax season is upon us and it is a great time for companies to not only do a spring cleaning, but to also create reports based on employee and customer statistics.

With My Halloo, you can easily run reports on all of these things as well as look at your set up and see if your extensions need to be reorganized.

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The Importance of First Impressions in a Virtual World

First impressions are important, even more so via the phone. As a business owner, you will not be able to answer every call personally. When designing your voicemail, take a few moments to consider the first impression that your callers will receive. First impressions are made quickly – within the first seven seconds – and take a lot of effort to fix if you start off on the wrong foot.
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Halloo Hint: Don’t Get Caught in a Phone Loop

This is great advice for new Halloo users.

Q: What is a phone loop?

A: Phone loops are an easily fixed, but common problem with users new to virtual systems. This happens when you have your phone forwarding to one number and then set that phone to forward to the first number. You will notice a drop in calls and your costs will increase exponentially.

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What Is a Hunt Group?

hunt group allows a caller to automatically find an available (i.e. “not busy”) agent from a group of extensions via your virtual phone system. Each extension will be tried in order until a “free” extension is reached. Extensions will be skipped during call routing if the person is currently on the phone or has marked their extension as “blocked” from hunting. Continue reading