Many companies have well-used phone lines, and that means that the monthly phone bill can end up being pretty steep. But with hundreds of clients, colleagues and business partners to swap information with, sell to and strike new deals with, how can you be expected to save any money when every phone call is crucial to the running of your business?
On top of local and national calls, plenty of businesses have international contacts too. This means costly international phone bills that can easily ramp up into hundreds – and even thousands – of pounds. And it’s at this point that you need to start looking for an alternative way to call people. When it’s costing your business so much money to contact clients and partners that it hardly seems worth it (though presumably the revenue generated from such communications makes it more than so!) surely there’s another way of staying in touch without losing any of the personal qualities of a phone call.
Thankfully, there is – VoIP technology has meant that millions of businesses can benefit from heavily reduced rates on making phone calls, especially to international destinations. VoIP, which stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is a service that transmits your voice over the internet as opposed to phone lines. This means that the cost of ‘sending’ is free as you’re already paying for your internet service, so all that is incurred in the cost is the recipient’s side of the call. And if you call a client, co-worker or partner who also has a VoIP service installed on their computer, it’s usually free. Imagine calling your partners or clients in the Americas, Australia, Japan and anywhere else in the world without having to pay a single penny for it – and just how much your company’s wallet would benefit from such a service. The perks are numerous, the best one certainly being the amount of cash you can save by simply using the web for your phone calls instead of the phone.
Your business could stand to save a great deal of cash when it comes to making business calls, and in today’s recession it’s doubtless that your company is seeking out plenty of different ways to save. By signing up to services such as business VoIP your company could finally stop spending so much money on costly business calls and enter the new age of technology which is making it more and more possible to leave behind the days of expensive communication.