Here is a way to increase your corporate profits through expense reduction. Go get your business phone bill. Look for the fixed monthly cost of each of your lines. It should be something around $26. In the competitive world of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) the fixed monthly cost for a telephone number is running between $1.00 and $1.50. You might pay another $1.50 per month for 911 services and 0.2₵ per inbound call for Caller ID. Now look more toward the back of your bill and find the charges for calls. These can run from 8₵ to 14₵ per minute. If you have a long distance contract your per minute charges might be zero, but there is a monthly charge for this service. The VOIP per minute charges are between 0.8₵ and 1.6₵. These VOIP services are different from traditional service. The VOIP per minute call charges are for both outbound and inbound. Traditional service charges only for outbound. The difference in cost is so large I have found that VOIP results in dramatic savings even if most of your calls are inbound.
How would a move to VOIP affect your bill? I have two examples. One is a pizza parlor that has a large volume of inbound calls and the other is a painter’s office. The pizza parlor has three phones that sequentially take inbound calls (hunt). They average 25 hours a month and switching to VOIP has reduced their phone bill by 77%. The painters had phone numbers that were stranded in other cities. Switching to VOIP solved these problems with the old phone numbers and eliminated their charges for forwarding their 800 calls. I reduced their phone bill by 95%, setup extensions in their office and setup the receptionist so she can answer phone calls on her cell phone when she is out of the office. Each of these solutions required around $150 of hardware that I configured for free. I make my living by splitting the savings over time with my customers. After splitting the savings the pizza parlor saved 39% and the painters saved 47%. How would it be to save over a third on your phone bill every month?
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