Increasingly, business owners and employees want the comfort and ease of using their preferred device for work-related purposes. For small business owners like you, this new movement—which has been dubbed Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) by industry pundits—can actually be a major benefit because it means you don’t have to purchase expensive work-specific equipment for you or your employees.
That being said, if you want to embrace the BYOD revolution your phone settings have to be accessible from these mobile devices. As an entrepreneur you probably spend quite a bit of time traveling to trade shows, client meetings and more. You need to be able to change your company greeting or add an extension quickly and if you are like most Americans— 44 percent of whom have slept with their phone next to their bed because they wanted to make sure they didn’t miss any communications—the easiest way to make those changes is with a mobile device because at this point it is practically an appendage!
With legacy phone technology, adding a line would require a technician to show up and changing your greeting would probably involve dialing in and rooting around in a complex system. Fortunately settings on today’s best-in-class cloud-based phone systems can be accessed from mobile devices. You can change your greeting digitally just by typing a message or add an extension in real time. Additionally, with a web-based system you don’t need any special technological skills or knowledge to make adjustments—you just need a connected device.
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