In the world of serial entrepreneurs, incubators, and venture capitalists everyone is looking for a competitive advantage to put their company on the “bleeding edge.” To achieve this, we propose that startups closely inspect an aspect of their company that is too often overlooked: the phone system. A hosted phone system, or hosted PBX (HPBX) is the perfect startup phone system for a litany of reasons.
Read More
To host or not to host, that is the question. Do you have a tech team on-site to manage the PBX? If so, to have an onsite PBX could mean more control and increased integration. If not, it could be costly, difficult to implement and hard to expand.
Business or office mobility (also called enterprise mobility at times) is a reference to the change in work habits and communication expectations for today’s modern employee. We can measure mobility by simply analyzing the capabilities and efficacy of a professional when they’re outside of their normal work environment.
Read More
Choosing a business phone system can be daunting, especially for non-technical people. Why? Because business phone systems are big ticket items that typically only need replacing or upgrading every ten to fifteen years. Oftentimes, the phone system outlasts the people who originally had it installed.
Read More
In the old days (early 2000’s), Data LANs and business phone systems were like my ex-wife’s birthday. She was born on December 29th, and while her birthday was only four days separated from Christmas, I was very sternly warned that they were never to be combined or merged in any way. They were two very separate events, just as voice and data were very separate technologies within the same physical office space.
Eventually, the technologies converged. The holidays never did. And it seemed to me that for the longest time (and even still today), data sales and implementation processes continued to remain separated from voice sales and implementation processes.
Read More
