Jola Cloud Solutions' Blog

There are over 20,000 nursing homes in the UK providing residential care to older people, with an average of 40 residents per home. Qualified nurses provide care to residents, some of whom are eligible for NHS funding with the rest being privately funded.

Quality of care is a primary focus and some nursing homes are introducing IT to help improve communication.

One of Jola's Partners recently installed fibre broadband into a nursing home with four sites in Reading. They replaced the existing phone lines and installed four phones into each site. They also provided staff with tablets loaded with appropriate software to log medical notes. The care homes are now all on one phone system and key nursing staff use their mobiles as a desk extension to make and receive calls on the go.

1. Why upgrade your customers' connectivity?

You are trusted advisers - your customers prefer to buy from you. If you also manage their connectivity you can keep your competitors out and use the faster, more reliable connection to move applications and data into the cloud. You can also increase your recurring revenues, helping you to fund business growth.

Have you ever had a customer ring you up in a panic needing a phone system double quick?

It happens more often that you might think. Moving offices can be as stressful as moving house and with so much to think about telephony often falls through the cracks. Growing businesses with new starters and nowhere to seat them, often need to find premises quickly and be up and running in days. 

IT and telecommunications suppliers

A recent survey by SIR suggested that half of SMEs would talk to their local IT supplier when considering communications purchases however very few of them sell and support the products their customers are interested in. The rest turn to their telecommunications providers who are ahead of the game in many ways already supplying internet connectivity and traditional and hosted telephony.

IT Support companies spend a lot of their time talking to their customers about something that isn't working properly. They work to ensure things don't break and then fix them if they do. The time they spend on site and the importance of IT to their customers means that they are usually trusted more than any other supplier. Surveys have shown that SMEs favour buying cloud-based solutions from suppliers with an IT/data background, however few IT Support companies sell cloud voice or the quality connectivity required to enable it. 

So why should you consider broadening your IP portfolio to include connectivity and VoIP?

1. SIM-only

JolaMobile is a SIM-only service. By not including a handset you get a much better deal - prices start at £9.50 per month.

2. Monthly contracts

By moving to JolaMobile SIMs you can keep all your employees on the same cancellation period - 30 days as Jola offers monthly rolling contracts.

10 reasons to partner with Jola

1. We have over 15 years' experience running a channel ISP
2. We have access to all the major network operators
3. Our prices are really competitive
4. We have the best deal on Broadsoft hosted voice seats and Vodafone SIMs
5. We have an easy quoting tool for access to all options and prices in minutes

Are you looking for the best deal on Broadsoft hosted voice solutions?

Do you have a demand for hosted voice? Are you looking for a reliable Broadsoft partner?

Jola is a channel-focussed business communications supplier and our hosted voice offering is called JolaPhone.

Proposition to resellers

Premium Broadsoft seat, UK calls and a Polycom handset from £9.70 per month (price to you)

How to generate leads for hosted voice and internet connectivity

Getting started

You have signed up with a supplier such as Jola for hosted voice solutions. What next?

Step 1

Add the new products and services to your website. List them under products, provide an overview of the services and if appropriate add a download to further information. Think about key words and phrases in your web content. Contact your supplier for help with text and graphics. Ensure you have a data capture box so that interested parties can submit their details for further information. Forward these leads to your sales team for immediate follow up.

1. Do you want a hosted or traditional business telephone system?

Technology savvy customers will already be considering the benefits of hosted telephony over a traditional phone system. To make your decision consider the following:

Reliability - you need to be able to make and receive calls during business hours with no issues. Research the underlying technology, the uptime guarantees and disaster recovery options. Some hosted solutions allow you to use mobile devices as desktop phones and make and forward calls remotely to ensure business continuity.