By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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Just because Leprechaun season is fast approaching doesn't mean tiny men with golden promises should be put in charge of choosing your next business phone system.
But I know it's tempting...
If you check out the video below you might be left with the impression that the most difficult part of installing a business phone system is getting the phone system's key service unit out of all the bubble wrap it's shipped in.
While bubble wrap can certainly be a problem, the bigger problem for small business owners is thinking that their next phone system is not more complicated to choose then their last phone system was to choose.
Does Your Current Cell Phone Look Like the One You Owned Five Years Ago?
The cell phone you owned five years ago made phone calls and had all your contacts on speed dial. The "smart phone" in your pocket now has all your business contact phone numbers AND access to all your business software applications that you can't possibly live without.
If you couldn't conduct business with the cell phone you had five years ago, why do you think you can do business with the same office phone system technology that you purchased for your office ten years ago? You can't. You'd be better off only doing business with your smart phone then trying to conduct any sort of office business on an "old-school" phone system.
How Do You Find an Office Phone System That Works as Well as Your Smart Phone?
Step one is to seriously consider an office phone system that has all it's "smarts" in the cloud - just like your smart phone.
The small business phone system in the video below is "old-school" because it requires a key service unit or KSU be mounted somewhere on your business property and then connected to all your desk phones and dial-tone. The only problem for this design is that all your employees are now required to be in your office for this to work
What if you have more than one office? What if your employees are always on the move? What if, like your smart phone, you need your office phone to interact with other business applications like GPS or voice recognition?
You Can Afford a "Smart" Phone System IF The "Smarts" are IN THE CLOUD
You don't own the GPS technology in your smart phone that helps navigate your from one business appointment to another - you just rent it on a monthly basis as part of your cell phone bill. It's a good thing that you don't own it because you likely couldn't afford it and you don't have the room for the computer that makes it work.
It's OK to rent the "business smarts" that your company needs to stay connected.
In today's ever evolving business environment it's difficult to be able to predict how many employees you'll need in one office or another or if the people you'll need will even be working out of an office.
Call Us to Explore the Modern Hosted Cloud Phone System Solutions
Just as do-it-yourself old-fashioned "box" phone systems come in hundreds of sizes and styles, so do the more modern "cloud hosted" phone systems.
Some are based on proprietary Broadsoft technology and others are based on Metaswitch. Still others are designed on "open" Asterisk software and are reported to be cheaper but less secure to hacking. Which is a safe option for your business?
Call us and let us know what's important about the way your business will be doing business over the next couple years. As independent business technology sales partners we're experts at matching you with the vendor or combination of vendors best suited to your business vision AND your budget.
This Might Be the Best Business Phone System Solution For You if ...
In all fairness to the fellow in this video, this is a perfectly reasonable business phone system solution for single location businesses that have just a few employees and the way they "do business" is very old-school (and they do not expect that to ever change).
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