Recession Busting Strategies Any Business can Implement

Dec. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- Smartinfo saves business £1000’s and improves efficiency at the same time.. How?
implementing new communication technology to help run your business.

Internet Telephony Technology has marched into the 21st century improving quality, reliability and reducing costs - on both Oppex and capex.

The Top Ways to Save 100’s for your business

1. Cut down on the size of your office? Make a major leap in cost cutting - ditch large chunks of your office.  Retain your location and prestigious meeting areas as ‘Head Office’ but with a smaller footprint. Keep some workspace for ‘Hot Desking’ and then encourage your workers to work from home using The Cloud as the Office Server and VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) for the Phone System.

2. A more flexible but fully integrated workforce? How about a relative or retiree answering calls using a remote home phone. A system can be automated to include them in the main ring group when they are on duty.

2. Cut down on travelling and commuting costs. Season tickets and fuel costs keep rising, congestion is getting worse and time is money. Enable staff to work from home at least one day each week, it is proven to to aid morale and boost productivity.

3. Cut down on mobile phone costs. It sounds obvious - many companies go for the ‘free’ upgrade every year or two. It’s in the network’s interests for you to do this as they keep their costs to a minimum without offering you the best deal available. Moving to a new network is often the best way to refresh your tariffs and clear any hidden charges. Challenge the networks to improve your current deal and use Smartinfo to compare all the current tariff’s Brokers / dealers often have ‘overrider’ deals and can offer cash rebates which the networks cannot. They also have access to the latest (and future) tariff’s from all the networks. Finally a broker does all the hard work for you, tariff’s are confusing and network sales people can be deliberately economical with the truth.  

4. Cut down on the cost of calling mobiles. The largest single item on the majority of corporate phone bills is calls to mobiles. Smartinfo can often reduce these costs by up to 50%.

5. Make customers calling your office more efficient, using simple reception replacing features such as these three:
a)  Auto Attendant - Press 1 for Sales, 2 for Accounts etc.
b) DDI - Direct Dial In numbers. Key personnel have their own phone number to their desk.
c) Voicemail to Email when out of the office or when the office is closed.

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Smartinfo are a full service ICT (information Communication Technology) provider based in the City of London but offering nationwide coverage for Telephone systems, IT equipment and all associated services. We were founded in 2003.