Achieve True Mobility as a Small Business Owner
October 12, 2008
Most entrepreneurs and small business owners will agree: one of the biggest challenges they face is the one of mobility. The advanced technology of smart phones helps with this matter as business owners can now receive e-mail on their phone and deal with them accordingly. But what about true freedom? True mobility. What happens with the direct calls that the receptionist or assistant answers, or the faxes, or the direct calls that go to voicemail? The first paragraph mentioned how the smart phone’s... Read more »
Online Fax Services Allow True Mobility
October 5, 2008
One of the reasons so many small business owners and entrepreneurs love Smart Phones like the Blackberry is that they allow for mobility. When it comes to servicing clients or solving problems, you can work from virtually anywhere. But what happens when an e-mail just won’t do? What happens when you have reams of paperwork that need to move from one person to the next? Back in the mid- to late-1980’s, the commercial fax machine was hailed as a revolutionary invention (even though in... Read more »
The End Of The Landline
July 15, 2008
T-Mobile has announced a new service which allows home users to abandon their expensive home phone services without losing their phone numbers. Is the end of wired line home phone service soon to be a thing of the past? The offering gives the customer a wireless router for a one time charge of $50 and a monthly fee of just $10 per month for unlimited nationwide calling over the WiFi internet connection. Customers simply plug their touch tone or wireless home phone into the new router and will then... Read more »
Selecting the Appropriate Conference Call Services
June 25, 2008
Picking Out the proper conference call services is essential to your establishment. Conference calling lets people from about the world to gather in real time and share worthy thoughts. There are many choices for conference calling, and so some standards must be conceived before making a decision on what services are optimal for you. First of all, you must decide if you want an operator-assisted call option, or the alternative of instant conferencing. For a formal group meeting, necessitating... Read more »
Good Quality VoIP Protocols
June 22, 2008
How can you make sure that your network is living up to the requirements, both before and after deploying VoIP services? Given below are some very useful guidelines you can look up to before deploying VoIP in your network, or when you desire to better the quality of your network after deployment. Whether choosing a vendor partner or testing and deploying the VoIP network yourself, ensure your tools provide granular diagnostics and reporting capabilities that enable you to efficiently troubleshoot... Read more »
Best Practices Phone Handling Processes for Small Businesses
June 1, 2008
Effective phone handling processes help to ensure a company has a professional image. The productivity of an office can be significantly increased by utilizing effective procedures for managing telephone calls. Using small business PBX systems for incoming and outgoing calls requires an effective process in order to avoid problems such as losing important calls and transferring telephone calls to the wrong person. Let’s take a look at ways to improve the handling of incoming and outgoing business... Read more »
Is A VOIP Phone System the Right Choice for Your Business?
June 1, 2008
It’s important for business owners to fully comprehend their current phone system before making a decision regarding VOIP. Many businesses still using older phone system technology don’t realize how much they are actually spending on phone company charges and long distance charges. VOIP and VOIP hybrid PBX systems have been big news in recent years, but is this the right solution for your business? Advantages of VOIP With VOIP, telephone services are not dependent on the phone company’s... Read more »
How Secure Is Your VOIP Network?
May 22, 2008
Voice over IP telephone services are revolutionising how the world communicates, individuals, and businesses are embracing the capabilities and harnessing the power of the internet. Despite voice over IP being a great technological breakthrough, security is still a major concern, yet with the proper precautions it should not have to be. Most users implementing VOIP these days are primarily concerned about voice quality, latency and interoperability. However we shouldn’t overlook the security... Read more »
Why Everyone Should Be Embracing VOIP
May 18, 2008
Voice over IP (VOIP) is one of the greatest things to come out of the internet. Although not a new concept, since scientists realised its potential back in the 70s, it has really only become popular within the last half a decade. There are a number of reasons why it didn’t come about earlier, the main being slow web speeds. Before broadband, using VOIP services was fairly temperamental, often calls were jittery, laggy and poor quality. Thankfully broadband and particularly wireless internet... Read more »
Will Voip/Ip Telephony Eventually Replace Traditional Phones?
April 17, 2008
What is VoIP? It uses the same principles as a phone but it uses the transmission of the internet. Most Ip Telephony to VoIP phones are actually free - amazing no call charges and no more bills. So if there were Ip telephony networks set up all over the world with everyone using them, it would have a massive effect on not only the current phone providers but maybe mobile service providers aswell. VoIP relies on broadband or internet connection to connect to other users but is this a bad thing? You... Read more »
