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Now that your small business has built a substantial local customer base, the next step in your master business plan is likely to begin offering your product to customers in different parts of the country. To showcase your offering to prospects in other areas, however, is likely to require significant travel for you and your employees.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

Does your office resemble the 405 in California during rush hour, a jumble of phone extensions and on-premises hardware that causes bottlenecks and traffic jams in your cubicles? Are your cubicles like a bad scene out of a 1980s movie, replete with legacy technology and a mishmash of parts? Then it might be time to rethink your phone system.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

Small and microbusiness owners typically work on a fairly tight budget. For these entrepreneurs, cutting cost without sacrificing functionality is always challenging.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

OK, so we recognize that you have probably seen quite a few articles recently touting some trend or technology as “the future of business.” But at the risk of sounding like all those other guys, we’d like to talk about a trend that actually will shape the future of work. How do we know for sure? Because it is already starting to happen! Here’s why:

Better technology

Working from outside the office has always had its advantages, but recent technological innovations have made it more attractive than ever. For instance, virtual business phone systems have made it possible for companies to communicate effectively and inexpensively from other towns, cities or states. The system is web-based and therefore can be accessed from anywhere you can connect to the Internet.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

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. 

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

When you own your own small business, your time and money is often the company’s as well, meaning your margin for error is close to nil. For example, choosing the wrong technology can take your company from boom to bust in a hurry—even if the product or service you are selling is top notch.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

As the owner of microbusiness, the quality of your employees is especially important because although they are few in number they bear enormous responsibility. So in your quest for recruiting and retaining the best and brightest, you’ll want to pick from as large a pool as possible and not limit your choices by making your company less attractive to any particular demographic.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Telecommunication Trends, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings, Cloud Phone

If you just started your new business and you need phone service, or maybe your business has been around for a while but your personal cell phone is no longer sufficient to manage your company's growth. Leveraging a hosted VoIP system can help you manage your call flow and look more professional.  

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings

Finding innovative ways to save money and boost revenue are essential for any growing business today. While cutting corners isn’t always fun, setting up your first hosted phone system definitely is! A hosted phone system takes the best features of a sophisticated PBX on-premise phone setup and supercharges it with awesome new VoIP features that old traditional systems only dream about.  And because the sytem works via the Internet, it does you the favor of zapping all of those servers and switchboards and cables into oblivion. What you are left with is a super streamlined and friendly ‘in the cloud’ infrastructure that places all of the equipment off-site, except the actual phones.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, Voxox, VoIP, Cost Savings

Does your calling and messaging app allow you to communicate with all of your contacts or does it force you to invite your friends to join their service? In a recent survey 40% of U.S. and 45% of U.K. mobile messaging users ranked the ability to communicate with all of their contacts, as the highest-ranking feature on their list of must haves. Unfortunately, many of the calling and messaging apps fall short in this area. Why you ask? Let's take a moment to look at a few of these services and you can make the decision.

Topics: Voice Communication, Communication, iPhone, Voxox, Messaging, VoIP, SMS, Cost Savings, Android