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Creative Uses for an Answering Service #1

When you win the estimated $550 million powerball lottery, you better get ready to field hundreds (probably thousands) of calls. Not just from your second cousin that lives in Nebraska who suddenly realized how much you both have in common, but a gargantuan influx of people you've never met who want to pitch you an idea, get you to donate, ask for an interview, or just straight forward ask for money. Your cell phone will be ringing off the hook all day and night! How in the world do you deal with it?

Enter your favorite answering service. In the kickoff to our Creative Uses for an Answering Service feature, we're brainstorming tons of useful, innovative, and in this case, humorous and imaginative ways to use an answering service beyond just typical call forwarding or message taking.

Here are the ways we would handle your lottery calls:

1. You forward your phone (mobile or land-line) directly to us. Normally, your phone would ring once and the call would then be directed to our call centers.
2. We give you your own phone number that you can use as your official contact number where people can leave a message for you.

From there, we answer your calls, take the message and customize how you receive your messages. We can fax, email, text, and personally call you with your messages.

You can choose to have them delivered once a day, at a few custom times a day, or have them sent to an agent that you've probably already hired to handle it for you!

With that out of the way, you now have free time to buy that beach house in Hawaii, get away on a vacation, or finally buy yourself that iPad!