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So you operate your business from home?

• You save a lot of money, and you don't have to commute! Your telephone becomes your connection to the outside world. But unlike a "JOB", you don't have a boss to pay your telephone bill. That expense reduces your bottom line. Protel can substantially lower your monthly telephone bill, make paying your taxes easier and give you the peace of mind knowing that someone is looking out for your interest.

How can we (at Protel) lower your monthly telephone bill?

• You're on the internet, so your business can come from across the street or across the globe. You can be assured when you call the client you will be getting reliable service at the very best prices. When you select PowerNet Global with nationwide service availability and local service (currently available in 13 states), you will have six second billing and a short 18 second minimum call duration. That fax which was sent across the country in 48 seconds will cost you 5¢!
  
  
• Every business needs a toll free number; yours does too. If you thought it was too expensive, think again. Now those incoming long distance calls that you pay for will cost you the same as the long distance calls you make from your phone, with six second billing! As low as 3.9¢/minute (from within California) and 5.4¢/minute when the calls originate outside your home state. Of course, you could block calls coming from out of state if you wish, or from any area code or prefix within your state at no extra charge. Or you could limit your toll free calls to come from a specific number, prefix, area code or state. There is no charge for setting up the number either or for call blocking. Our toll free numbers have a very small $1.00 a month charge - a deductible business expense of course.
  

How can we make paying your taxes easier?

• Since you operate your business from your home, you need a personal telephone and a business telephone, right? Not necessarily. You could log each call you make from or receive on your single telephone and then log in the cost of each toll call when you receive your telephone bill. Then at the end of the year, you total the cost of all your business calls and determine the fraction of the time the telephone is used for business vs personal to determine your income tax business deduction. Then all you have to do is calculate the taxes associated with all those calls. That's fine if you have nothing else to do.
  
  
• Imagine how simple it would be if the telephone company sorted your telephone calls into business and personal categories so that in each and every bill you had an itemized list of all your business calls and all your personal telephone calls. Impossible you say. Protel makes it possible with Project Codes. This service is free and all you have to do is dial two extra digits after you dial each call you make. The calls are sorted by the code you chose on the bill you receive. You can pay the entire bill with one check, or with one check for business and one check for personal. Or you can pay by credit card automatically or by eBill directly from your checking account - those are free services also.
  
  
• At the end of the year, you have all your business calls in one pile of statements and all your personal calls in the other. You now have an accurate and documented proof of your business usage. For more information, click on the account code link
  
  
• Account codes could even save you the cost of a second phone! Or free up the extra phone line you already have for web browsing or receiving faxes.

Personalized Service

• Protel is a home-business just like yours. Unlike the big companies, we recognize many of our customers by voice or by their first names - although as we grow, that is becoming more difficult. We don't simply get you on service and ignore you. We recently helped the daughter of one of our customers obtain an AT&T travel card for use in Italy. We substantially lowered our rates in 1999, AGAIN, so that we will truly be the industry leaders in low priced quality service. They didn't have to ask for the new rates. In April 2000, we reduced our rates once again. Our interstate rate went down one cent a minute, and our intrastate rate went down 0.4 cents. When we learn about a rate reduction, we inform you by a letter which we send out usually once a year.
  
  Have you ever received a letter from your long distance carrier asking if you would like lower rates?
• Our goal is to provide the highest quality phone service at the least cost. We have no "all circuits busy" messages, slow 800 call through, noisy lines or any of the other problems that so often plague discount phone services. We are able to keep our rates low because we have little overhead (home business, remember!) and we take a very small commission!
  
  
• You will not be disappointed. We rarely have a client leave us, and if they do, it's because of personal problems unrelated to the phone service, such as moving to another state. When one of our clients recently moved to Colorado, she was almost in tears at losing us! We care about you. Read some our testimonials and stories about our service.

Call us today at (800) 4-PROTEL (800-477-6835). We can sign you up on the phone, indeed we prefer to, or you can fill out an application and fax or mail it to us, you need to start on the road to increasing the bottom line of your business today! You can e-mail us at info@protel-com.com if you'd like to ask a question.

Page created February 27, 1999; revised June 30, 2004.

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