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A business telephone line is more expensive than a regular personal line, but it is necessary if you want to be listed in the Yellow Pages and in the white pages under your company name. When you subscribe, be prepared to show your business license and/or incorporation documents. Depending on your credit rating, you may also be required to pay a refundable deposit.

For a start-up special events business, a single telephone line and a designated fax line should be sufficient. It is a good idea to invest in a separate line and number for your fax machine. You don’t want your telephone line tied up by the fax machine. Also, there are many business fax machines that cannot connect to fax lines that are hooked up with a phone line or answering machine. We also recommend a separate line for a high-speed internet connection, since so much of business today is conducted online and by e-mail. As your business grows, you may want to invest in a multi-line phone system, which allows you to have two or more calls coming in or going out simultaneously. The hookup fees and monthly charges for this type of service are expensive; you should wait to see if the volume of business calls you receive warrants the costs. However, if you are purchasing new phones for your business, it might be wise to purchase multi-line phones ahead of the service, as the cost of these phones isn’t much greater than that for single-line phones.