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Ben Morrison

Ben Morrison
March 24, 2023
Ben Morrison leads marketing at PanTerra Networks, where he focuses on how businesses research, evaluate, and buy cloud communications technology. He has spent more than 20 years in technology marketing, working with UCaaS providers, IT channel partners, and enterprise technology companies. His work covers growth marketing, demand generation, and channel strategy across the UCaaS and IT services industries. He began his career in telecommunications at Qwest Communications. Ben writes about the buying decisions behind business communications: what platforms cost, how to compare them, and which questions matter before a contract is signed.
Articles By Ben Morrison

Bilingual Virtual Receptionist: Why Bilingual Is Not the Same as Qualified

Most organizations shopping for a bilingual virtual receptionist are solving an obvious problem. Callers ring in speaking ...

SOC 2 vs HIPAA: What Each One Proves About a Vendor

You asked a vendor if their service is HIPAA compliant. They sent you a SOC 2 report. The SOC 2 vs HIPAA mix-up starts right ...

HIPAA and Telehealth Video: What Changed When Enforcement Discretion Ended

The HIPAA enforcement discretion that let providers use consumer video apps for telehealth expired on August 9, 2023. It ran ...

Voicemail to Text: How Voicemail Transcription Works and What to Look For

Voicemail to text converts a voice message into readable text, so the message can be scanned in a few seconds instead of ...

Missed Calls Are a Clinical Problem, Not a Front Desk Problem

Most practices count a missed call as a staffing problem, a schedule gap rather than a care gap. The phones rang harder than ...

What Happens to Your Calls During a Microsoft Teams Outage

A Microsoft Teams outage is no longer a rare event that IT teams plan for theoretically. Since August 2023, Microsoft Teams ...

What an AI Receptionist Costs in 2026 (vs. Hiring vs. a Live Answering Service)

An ai receptionist costs less per month than a part-time employee and more per month than voicemail. That is the easy part ...

How to Choose Contact Center Software: The Evaluation Scorecard

Most contact center software evaluations go wrong the same way: a forty-row feature spreadsheet, every vendor scoring well ...

Omnichannel Contact Center: What It Means and How to Evaluate One

An omnichannel contact center handles customer conversations across voice, email, SMS, chat, and social in a way that treats ...

AI Receptionist vs. Virtual Receptionist Service: Which Does Your Business Need?

An ai receptionist and a virtual receptionist service solve one problem, calls going unanswered, in two different ways. One ...

AI Answering Services for Small Business: The 2026 Buyer's Guide

If you run a small business and calls are going unanswered, an AI answering service will fix that faster and more cheaply ...

What Is Contact Center Automation? A Complete Business Guide

Contact center automation is the use of software to handle contact center work that would otherwise require a person — ...

RingCentral Stability: Leadership & Financial Review

RingCentral stability questions come up in nearly every enterprise evaluation I see, and they deserve better answers than ...

How to Switch from Landline to VoIP: Business Migration Guide

Switching your business from a landline to VoIP is one of the high-return infrastructure decisions a mid-sized company can ...

Business Phone System Features: 2026 Checklist

Business phone system features lists have a problem: they all look identical, and none of them tell you which features you ...