Opening a New Business: Home Office
With the current world situation and possibly another quarantine this fall, we may expect more job loss, working from home, and furloughs. In the meantime, people are stepping up and discovering their entrepreneurial abilities and turning hobbies, passions and skills into a livelihood and starting Home Businesses. None the less, a business is a business, which needs to have the proper legal and licensing protocols, sometimes requiring assistance from those professionals. As part of that professional team, in order to properly communicate with your customers and vendors, you need a reliable and adaptable communication system that provides versatility, redundancy and options.
Although a cell phone may meet your immediate personal needs, it is quite limited. Consider the following:
1. It is not a dedicated business line. Personal and business calls cannot be differentiated. Incoming calls cannot be managed before and after hours.
2. A VoIP (internet telephone) seat is usually less expensive that a phone line and offers far more bang for the buck.
3. A VoIP seat has many more features and functions to manage call flow versus a cell phone. VoIP provides real business functionality.
4. If you have a business partner or an employee, you can use an Auto Attendant, Hunt Group, and Call Transfer feature for call flow, time of day routing for after hours messaging and much more.
5. You can use a real desk phone and/or desktop computer with soft-phone (software).
6. Use of Fax2Mail, which is faxing directly to an email, is much less expensive than a fax line; a fax machine, paper and ink are not required.
7. If your services serve more than your local area, you may consider the use of a Toll Free Number.
Other Home Office Tips to consider:
Cabling from house access point into home office room, multiple ports/jacks, cleaner wired environment
IT managed services, physical firewall, monthly support and security with One Call Networks,
Business Class Internet vs residential, Static IPs, priority Internet support, we can provide and manage.
VoIP and Fax2Mail services to expand well beyond and in conjunction with cell capabilities,
Like a gmail email account, many do not consider this a professional address versus having a true domain which connects your email and website. Where as having a dedicated business number shows a bit more professionalism.
Equipment Assets Life-cycle, provides the age and “End of Life” status of each device on your network with daily monitoring and alerts.
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