Portland Virtual Office

A Virtual Office starts with a local or toll free telephone number.
Now you're in business…barely.

Customers and prospects can call your Portland Virtual Office number and leave a message. But, customers don't call a business to leave a message. They call to speak with someone, now.

By adding “Find Me – Follow Me” your Portland Virtual Office will call you, at any number, and connect your callers to you, live. And with optional free Call Screening, you'll decide which calls to take, and which to send to voice mail.

New: Callers can listen to Your Company's “On-Hold” Message, while they wait to be transferred.

You can sound even bigger, when your Portland Virtual Office answers with an Auto Attendant. Callers might hear “Thank you for calling [your company]. If you know the extension number of the person you're calling, you may enter it at any time. For Sales press 1, Technical Support press 2, Billing press 3, etc. or Press 9 for the Dial by Name Directory”, even though all calls and departments are transferred to you!

When you don't take calls live, callers can leave a voice mail message. Each person and department can have their own private voice mailbox. Your Portland Virtual Office can then call you and deliver the message to you and send the message to your email, so you can hear it over your computer, or any Internet devise. You can also be notified by pager.

That's great, but you're still not done. Every business needs to be able to receive Faxes. Your Portland Virtual Office number can be set to automatically receive faxes, or you can add a separate number for faxes only. Faxes are delivered to your email, where they can be viewed, printed, forwarded, saved or discarded.

With this Portland Virtual Office, you're in business for real:

Complete Local Number Virtual Office

 Complete Toll Free Number Virtual Office

 For information or to start your Portland Virtual Office, Call

800.347.2861

Portland started as a spot known as "the clearing", which was on the banks of the Willamette about halfway between Oregon City and Fort Vancouver . In eighteen forty-three, William Overton saw great commercial potential for this land, but lacked the funds required to file a land claim. He struck a bargain with his partner Asa Lovejoy of Boston , Massachusetts for twenty-five centers; Overton would share his claim to the six hundred forty acre site. Overton later sold his half of the claim to Francis W. Pettygrove of Portland , Maine . Pettygrove and Lovejoy both wished to name the new city after their own home town; this was decided with a coin toss, which Pettygrove won. Portland 's location, with access both to the Pacific Ocean via the Willamette and the Columbia rivers and to the agricultural Tualatin Valley via the " Great Plank Road " through a canyon in the West Hills, gave it an advantage over nearby ports, and it grew quickly. It remained the major port in the Pacific Northwest for much of the nineteenth century, until the eighteen nineties, when Seattle 's deepwater harbor was connected to the rest of the mainland by rail, affording an inland route without the treacherous navigation of the Columbia River . During this time, corruption in the government allowed for some very unsavory activities to go on as well: "white slavery", specifically including the abduction of men to be used as forced labor on sailing ships, was so common that a network of underground tunnels, formerly used to transport goods from the river to nearby hotels and bars, was co-opted to accommodate the practice. The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an eighteen eighty-eight Episcopal Church convention, the nickname growing in popularity after the nineteen five Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses". The first Portland Rose Festival was held two years later, and remains the city's major annual festival a century later.