Time & Cost Savings: Is Your Business Right For VOIP?

Cory Communications has always advised our clients to make decisions based on their unique needs, and not on the popular media or on vendors everyone else is choosing.

For VOIP service, Cory is expertly focused on business-quality providers.

What do we look for in leading business class VOIP providers?

We are interested in factors such as service delivery, voice clarity, transmission speed, price, the provider’s financial staying power, innovation, and growth. Cory’s clients can be assured that our recommendation of a VOIP provider will be based on your unique circumstances and factors that matter to your business.

Today, small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) are increasingly selecting VOIP (Voice over IP) for their telecom needs. We at Cory Communications consider this trend significant and want to share our observations.

VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) involves using IP Transport to place and receive calls. A business VoIP phone solution is the same as residential VoIP except that business VoIP includes a Virtual PBX that offers more advanced features like desk to desk calling, automated attendant, managing extensions, music on hold, find me-follow me, conference calling and much more. Business VoIP also often includes an Internet connection that routes calls over a private network which guarantees quality phone calls.

With dramatic improvements in VOIP’s affordability and quality, experts see small and medium-sized enterprises as the next group to embrace VOIP technology.

By 2010 the number of SMB’s choosing VOIP is predicted to grow by 400 percent. Using VOIP, these small and mid-sized firms gain efficiencies by utilizing a dedicated connection for both their voice and internet traffic.

Here are a few of the many compelling reasons to select VOIP.

1. Cost Savings: VOIP service typically reduces telecom expenses by 20% - 40% or more, depending on usage. Given today’s economy, businesses upgrading or purchasing new phone systems are looking for any opportunity to keep expenses low. VOIP is a logical choice.

2. Dramatically Improved Quality of Service: There is virtually no discernable difference between VOIP service and voice clarity through plain old telephone service (POTS) lines. In the past, the choppy quality prevented firms from adopting VOIP for business use. With remarkable improvements, quality of service is virtually a non-issue.

3. Meeting Needs of SMB’s Work Environment: Increasingly small and medium sized businesses rely on non-traditional work environments; employees often working from their homes and other off-site locations. In many cases, firms have multiple small office locations which they join together through a single system and phone number. VOIP offers great flexibility and supports telecom access at multiple locations, even forwarded to mobile phones, all through the same telephone number.

4. Value-Added Features: VOIP also comes with a range of standard features that would normally be priced separately. Voicemail, call forwarding, call transfer and conference calling are just a few examples. These are great for SMB’s who want to present the image of being a larger, without paying for each service separately.

5. Great for Start-ups: Many start-up companies select VOIP service right out of the gate. Then, as they grow these firms benefit from VOIP’s inherent flexibility, which allows companies to scale very quickly without purchasing additional hardware, waiting for lines to be installed, or installing new services.

6. Excellent for Growth Companies: Smaller companies outgrow the constraints of their land line systems. Others have outdated PBX systems. Again, the inherent flexibility within VOIP allows growing companies to configure their telephone systems to meet to future, often unpredictable needs. When growth companies with traditional PBX’s make reinvestment decisions, many tend to purchase VOIP infrastructure, to achieve savings on their future telecom charges.

When you are a business servicing customers, a reliable, clear phone connection is critical. Does VoIP phone service meet these criteria? And how does it stack up when compared to traditional telephone company phone service?

These are all valid questions to ask when considering moving to VoIP.

Your business may have considered VoIP telephone service, but hesitated due to reading discussions about garbled speech and lag time that occurred in the earlier days of this digital voice technology.

At this time, many of the drawbacks seen when it was first introduced have been addressed by improvements in equipment and ISP connectivity. And while not every business may be a candidate for VoIP, a growing number are choosing to use this IP-based phone service option to enjoy reduced rates and improved productivity, as well as scalability for future growth.

Cory understands that each business carries a different set of circumstances that may or may not make VoIP ideal for implementation. Every day, Cory is guiding businesses on the appropriate paths for VoIP - saving Cory clients time and money in the process.

Is your business a candidate for VoIP today? Answer these questions.

• Is your phone system is at end of its life?
• Is your business is moving offices and you anticipate having to expand your legacy phone system. VoIP provides a more cost-effective solution?
• Is the cost of managing your legacy system is rising, and you want to maintain control over your own system -- not be at the mercy of the vendor?
• Do you have a highly mobile workforce and want to ensure your employees can always be easily reached, even when they're not at their desk?

Cory Communications offers Business Class VoIP solutions. We welcome talking to you about VOIP, how this service could help you, and whether it’s right for your firm. If you have questions about VOIP service, please call us at 1-877-489-8186 or send an email to info@corycommunications.com.