The growing pains associated with expanding your business can be a welcome problem – it’s certainly a problem more companies wish they had.
After all, who can complain about the costs of being successful?
Even so, planning ahead isn’t exactly a bad thing. One of the best ways to make sure you’re prepared is to invest in scalable, flexible technology like a hosted VoIP PBX. Today I’m covering how FreedomIQ keeps your business moving forward, providing tools and advantages that help you intelligently increase your staff size and add new locations without blowing your budget.
1. Pay As You Grow
The high costs of premise-based phone system equipment like servers and call switches are in part due to the fact that you’re not only paying for the service you are going to use now, but also typically overbuying just to have the capacity to grow in the future. It’s like buying more expensive shoes that are two sizes too big. You don’t start to see any hint of value until you experience the growth, and if you never grow into it you’re just wasting money.
A hosted VoIP PBX makes a non-issue of capacity by removing the burden of on-premise equipment and instead professionally managing your phone service for you from remote. No call switches, no dropping thousands of dollars for a clunky server that could be obsolete in six months to a year. With FreedomIQ, you can scale up your business simply by adding new VoIP phones at any time. This way, you only ever pay for what you need.
2. Adding A New Office
Adding another office is, by itself, a significant expense. The cost of the space, utilities, broadband – it all adds up and can set you back at a time when you could be surging forward. Last week I touched on how the features of a hosted VoIP PBX help you connect your remote offices – but left off that list was the value of being able to connect remote offices without facing the extra expense of new premise-based phone equipment.
Put simply, location doesn’t matter for your hosted VoIP PBX because the service is provided from remote. There’s no difference to us as the service provider if the new VoIP phones you’re adding are going just down the hall from your main office or thousands of miles away. As long as each location has the bandwidth to support what you’re doing there, you can add VoIP phones anywhere without purchasing new equipment.
3. Hiring Telecommuters
Another way to lower the cost of adding another office is to avoid it completely by embracing the power of telecommuting. By hiring remote workers, you’re decreasing your need for additional office space. In exchange, your remote workers experience the benefits of telecommuting.
With a hosted VoIP PBX, your remote employees can plug in a new VoIP phone at their home office and in minutes be running on the same phone system as the rest of your employees. FreedomIQ also helps you support, manage, and increase the productivity of your telecommuters with features like teleconferencing, visual call reports, and recorded calls.
So what are you waiting for? Get growing with a hosted VoIP PBX today!
