Just a decade ago, telephone answering machines were the butt of jokes, the object of scorn. Widely available since the late 1970s, they were just a blip on the consumer scene in the early ’80s. As ...

The only talents needed to start a home based telephone answering service are a pleasant telephone manner and excellent communication skills. Business owners, professionals and sales consultants are ...

If your business receives phone calls, use the storage and processing power of your computer to organize your messages. Modern telephony products offer a large number of options for connecting a phone ...

Martin Schneider of the website "Dangerous Minds" reviews a series of pre-recorded outgoing messages made by Radio Shack in the 1980s when home answering machines first cropped up. Sometimes, someone ...

I friend's AT&T 1726 answering machine went bad but it still turns on. However, setting up a voicemail announcement and receiving voicemails don't seem to work. She purchased another 1726 but wanted ...