I have Google Voice (free). Google gives you a phone number and you connect it with any phone numbers that you already have that you want your calls transferred to. I use my Google number as my business phone number and this is the number that I put in all of my advertising and that I hand to my clients. It even allows texting. There's also an app that you download for your smart phone so all of your texts and call records go there.

I have my calls sent to both my cell phone (since in on or close to me at all times and we go out on walks often) and my home phone. When both phone's ring I know someone is calling my business line or I can look on my cell phone to see that it's coming through Google Voice. I can pick up my cell phone or my home phone.

When it's a business call I always answer "[daycare name], this is Marina" so they know they called my daycare.

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