Have you read the news today? Businesses are toppling like never before, leaving an ever-collapsing marketplace in their wake. The sad fact is that many of the small companies that exist today won’t be around tomorrow. The economic climate is far too volatile.
Those who survive will be the ones who can make reductions on their overhead. One of the easiest areas a company can save money is in its phone system. If a company continues to host its own system, it suffers high maintenance costs which are not only hard to predict but problematic - they reduce profit while at the same time limiting a company’s ability to do business. Your phone is essential, so maintaining it literally means keeping your lifeline of communication to the world open.
With a hosted phone system, you completely cut your maintenance costs. You also eliminate the costly infrastructure you need to invest in and maintain if you were hosting the system yourself. By switching to a hosted phone system, you get all your phone costs on one easy to predict, affordable bill. There’s no guesswork involved, and you’ll end up paying less than if you hosted it yourself.
Plus, if the system does go down, you’ll have a team of qualified technicians that can alleviate the problem quickly. If you are a small company, chances are you can’t afford the same level of service to keep it running. Yet you depend on your phone service as a line of communication. Why wouldn’t you want to insure that service by depending on qualified technicians to keep it running?
A common myth with a hosted PBX system is that you give up your control over the service. In reality, you maintain absolute control, while just giving up the headaches and stress of maintaining it. Many hosted PBX systems (including Jive Communications) provide you with on-site programs that allow you to tweak and switch elements of your service yourself, easily and without any technical know-how needed. It’s as simple as making minor updates to a website or blog. You maintain complete control, even being able to customize the phone to meet the demands of a particular day, such as a special sales drive, fundraiser or the commemoration of a particular event.
Your phone system is probably the easiest place to begin cutting costs. By hosting it with an outside company, you not only save on your maintenance costs, you get a more solid service you can depend on. To survive these difficult economic times, smaller companies need to cut their expenses while expanding their services. A hosted PBX system gives you all the options at a minimal expense.
