Cut Business Overhead Costs With VoIP
Every business needs telephones. Regardless of the size or industry of the business, telecom is one of the expected items for running a business these days. As the world gets smaller, international calls come on the table as well. Phones represent an overhead item that just will not go away.
But what if you could make it smaller?
Installing a good VoIP system gives both hard and soft savings to businesses. Hard savings are more dollars in the company’s pocket that are easy to see on the balance sheet. Soft savings include all the hours not spent on stress, workarounds, or dealing with tech support that aren’t as obvious.
What is a VoIP phone system?
Back in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell uttered the first comprehensible words on his invention. He called his assistant from an adjacent room and said, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.”
Just over a hundred years later, businesses use multiple landlines, mobile options that connect to the office network, and a diverse array of devices that can communicate around the world and between office sites within the company.
Voice over Internet Protocol represents the next jump in phone evolution. Using data lines to transmit voice calls streamlines the entire communications process. There comes a point at which data is data, and if we can stream videos, we can do phone calls with just a bit of extra programming replacing miles of copper hardware.
Why is VoIP cheaper than POTS (Plain Old Telephone Systems?
Before VoIP, business phone systems required miles of complicated copper wiring hooked up to large switchboards. Phone systems of any internal complexity were expensive to install and maintain. VoIP replaces most of that equipment with software instead. Programming is much cheaper to create, install, and maintain than specialized physical equipment. So, VoIP business systems do more for less money on a consistent basis. In addition, VoIP phones allow an office’s phone system to be geographically diverse, which enables remote and hybrid workers for no additional overhead to the company.
All that flexibility and capability often leads business owners to think that VoIP calls are free.
The answer is, well, a little complicated. VoIP service agreements come with an agreed upon monthly charge that the business pays. At our company, NoContractVoIP, we work with businesses to create a custom quote that incorporates your business’s monthly usage. So, each individual call doesn’t cost “extra” until the business as a whole exceeds the agreed upon plan. Of course, all remote and hybrid workers are included in that overall business plan. Each worker costs the same, regardless of where they are.
How much could a business save on a predictable flat monthly rate for all workers, remote and in office? That predictability alone often creates a quick ROI for upgrading to a business VoIP system. Global research body IDC found that VoIP can reduce telephone-related business costs by 30%.
Other benefits of VoIP
There are more business advantages to using VoIP telephony, beyond cost savings. Especially the way it supports more efficient call systems.
Beyond the balance sheet, other business advantages of upgrading to VoIP include more efficient call systems. Anyone in the office can make external phone calls simultaneously without the company having to invest in expensive “extra” phone lines. Customers don’t suffer from busy signals because their call can route to any given staff member instead of getting hung up on whether there’s an external line open.
Because VoIP is already data based, it takes teammate collaboration to all new levels. VoIP supports exchanging all kinds of data during calls and enables internet-based video calls. That drops travel budgets for meetings.
VoIP systems scale up and down effortlessly. Adding new phones means just asking your provider for them. Adding call recording, virtual faxing, business text, hold music, and autoattendants happens at the touch of a button for the provider once the base system is in place. Of course, those options often come with subscription costs, but those subscription costs come in much cheaper than installing and maintaining their physical equivalents. In addition, many of those options increase the business’s productive capacity and customer relations index.
How is a VoIP system set up?
If you want to install a VoIP telephone system, the flat out easiest way is just call us. You tell us what you want your caller experience to be, and we make it happen. We’ll interface with your Internet provider for you, and you’ll never have to spend hours on hold for tech support ever again. You don’t have to learn anything about computers or VoIP systems for us to keep you on the cutting edge of telecommunications.
We can manage telephone to telephone, computer to telephone, or computer to computer calls. We provide quite a bit of services complimentary to our current account holders, and our prices for addons that aren’t complimentary are very reasonable. We’ll work with the local Internet providers to always get you the best deal on the Internet capacity your business needs. If you’re keeping your already existing telephone number, it generally takes us about a week to get it all switched over.
Each VoIP provider has its own process, of course. We take pride in being a white glove, do it all for you, completely custom provider. Other providers come in less immediately expensive, but you have to learn more. It always comes down to time or money, one of the two. Others yet offer a contract only price, which might be cost effective and it might not. It all depends on what your particular business needs.
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