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How to Convince Your Boss to Try Hosted VoIP
IT managers working for an SMB have a tough gig: maximizing the return on every IT dollar spent. With tech budgets shrinking across the nation, there’s an urgent need for every IT product or service a company chooses to deliver higher value at a lower price. Fortunately, this need has resulted in the emergence of a host of cost-effective, productivity-enhancing technologies. Among them, the hosted VoIP phone system leads the charge for smart business communications.
But, if you’re an IT manager, you already knew that. You’ve done your homework. Now it’s time to convince your boss, who may be coming from a different perspective and have different priorities. Here are some tips on how to present a hosted VoIP solution that will get the C-level to sign on the line that is dotted.
Hosted VoIP Phone Systems vs. TDM: Who Really Wins on Cost?
The cost savings of a hosted VoIP phone system often comes under scrutiny from some of the remaining providers of TDM, or “traditional”, phone systems. You know the kind, those broom closet phone boxes of yore. Through the use of a narrow lens, they push out misinformation that may lead small business owners to think that a TDM solution will somehow save them money over VoIP.
This is, however, an act of desperation on their part – not a reflection of reality. By choosing the scope of their argument, they can stack Apples v. Oranges and shine a deceptively attractive light on their systems. Zoom the camera out a bit, get the whole picture, and you’ll see why smart businesses have been abandoning TDM solutions in droves for the advantages of hosted VoIP.
Why Hosted VoIP is the Best Solution for Growing Businesses
If you’re a rapidly-expanding small business in today’s technology-heavy world, you’ve no doubt been faced with countless growing pains as your existing IT solutions are stretched beyond their abilities. With new versions of software released constantly and hardware becoming obsolete after even just a few months, it would seem like nothing is built to scale with your business. Or, even more unlikely, get better after you buy it.
This is where a managed service like hosted VoIP shines: scalability and constantly-updated service. Unlike the PBX of the past, a hosted VoIP phone system isn’t as much an investment in a fixed hardware solution as it is an ongoing partnership with a reliable service provider that will keep you on the cutting edge. Here are just a few of the ways this relationship helps your growing business…
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