Starting a business is exciting. It is you, your business plan, your investment and in many cases a few trusted and experience staff members. Money is tight and the focus is bringing in early revenues to stay in the black and grow as planned.
Even if you start your business from your home office and use your home computer and broadband connection there are costs like voice and data services you can't really avoid. Also you need to stay in touch with your team and your customers which often leads to expenses from web sites, business cards, travel expenses, software, hardware, telephony etc. You have a plan to grow into your own premises and so don't want to have to buy again in 3 years.
Many new companies are turning to cloud-based applications such as Microsoft 365 for business which gives you the business software you need and space in the cloud to back-up your documents securely. It comes with Microsoft Lync so you can keep in touch with your team via video or telephone conferencing over your Internet connection, if it is fast and reliable enough. For a business-grade telephony solution without the big investment there are solutions such as JolaPhone a pay-by-the-extension per month telephony service that gives you all the features of a business-grade telephone system without the cost. Features such as auto-attendant, call queuing, voicemail and announcements are standard and bolt-ons like call recording and Outlook integration are inexpensive and easy to use. Handsets can be plugged into any Ethernet socket so you can take and forward calls wherever you are. Possibly the feature that is selling this solution to so many start-ups is the ability to plug in into a new location when they grow to fill bigger offices without the need to change numbers on the website, re-print business cards or move and upgrade physical hardware.
If you have start-up companies as part of your customer base why not Partner with Jola to see how we can help save them money with our hosted telephony solutions in those first important years. To find out more download our guide.
