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.
How to Choose a Business VoIP Phone System
Here are some important items to consider when choosing a business VoIP phone system.
Is it Scalable?
Scalability is very important. Make sure that the phone system allows you to easily add and remove users. Companies add and remove employees all the time, make sure your phone system can easily adapt to this change. Hosted VoIP phone systems are great for this because users can be added or removed at will.
Is it VoIP Based?
Business VoIP phone systems are all the rage these days. They offer more features and are less expensive than analogue phone systems. In this writer’s opinion, stay away from buying a non-VoIP phone system. The technology is outdated and the VoIP options available today are far superior.
The Future of Business VoIP Service
With so many VoIP phone services available to businesses today, it’s difficult to know what the future will look like. In this blog post we want to hear from you, what is the future of business VoIP service in your opinion?
Here are some things to think about. Will hosted VoIP PBX systems become the dominant choice for business VoIP? What role will unified communications play? How will business VoIP integrate with smart phones and apps? When will video VoIP phones start to dominate the market? And once they arrive, what role will they play?
Don’t address all of these questions, but let’s get the ball rolling! Make one prediction about the future of business VoIP service.
Hosted VoIP vs. Premise Based VoIP: The Honest Truth 2
Two VoIP industry leaders give honest answers to tough questions on VoIP technology.
In last week’s segment of “Hosted VoIP vs. Premise Based VoIP: The Honest Truth,” David Byrd, VP of Marketing and Sales at Broadvox and Eric Thomas, CEO of FreedomVoice, addressed technical differences, common road blocks, and the issue of company size.
This week, the two VoIP industry leaders provide valuable answers to questions on security differences, bandwidth, equipment, and costs. One again, David Byrd will be representing premised based VoIP and Eric Thomas will be representing hosted VoIP.
