{"id":38942,"date":"2011-11-23T14:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=38942"},"modified":"2016-07-08T10:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:57:35","slug":"why-voip-lowers-costs-increases-efficiency-for-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/why-voip-lowers-costs-increases-efficiency-for-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Why VoIP Lowers Costs &amp; Increases Efficiency for Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overhead. It\u2019s one of the fastest ways to reduce costs for a start-up and one of the quickest ways to hemorrhage money.<\/p>\n<p>Many startups\u00a0may not\u00a0have\u00a0consistent\u00a0cash flow so having high office expenses, such as phone expenses, can really put a dent in your pocket.\u00a0 This is especially true if you have a phone system that charges you too much for those sales calls of yours and is so inefficient that you lose a lot of time troubleshooting\u00a0 the phones.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t have to be the case, of course. You can simply switch to a VoIP phone system\u00a0where you\u2019ll make things a lot more efficient around the office and definitely lower your costs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Assumptions Make a What Out Of You And Me?<\/h2>\n<p>Too many people assume that with a fancy acronym like VoIP that\u00a0Voice over Internet Protocol systems are too complicated to implement easily. On the contrary, these are some of the simplest phone systems you\u2019ll ever use\u00a0and because they\u2019re so simple, VoIP services can offer you unlimited minutes\u00a0at very, very low costs.<\/p>\n<h2>The Best Prices Around<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking of prices, consider how much you\u2019re paying for phones now and consider that many VoIP providers will only charge you about $20 per month or so \u2013 and they often give you unlimited minutes in the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t an anomaly. The anomalies are the VoIP providers that charge you a lot more than that to have a fully-integrated office phone system in place.<\/p>\n<p>The beautiful thing about this pricing model is that there is no large upfront fee, save for the possible hardware purchase of VoIP\u00a0phones , which is not always necessary. Installation and setup are both free with\u00a0many VoIP service providers.<\/p>\n<h2>Better Online Efficiency?<\/h2>\n<p>What&#8217;s true about the internet holds true for VoIP phones and VoIP service.\u00a0 They both make our lives a lot simpler.<\/p>\n<p>With VoIP, a single computer application\u00a0can manage your entire phone system\u00a0and there&#8217;s no steep learning curve or new skills needed when all you&#8217;re trying to do is just\u00a0change an extension number.<\/p>\n<p>Once your VoIP phone system is networked and you begin to use it like you would any other phone, better online efficiency is indeed possible because\u00a0you will\u00a0have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0dedicated toll-free number in place<\/li>\n<li>An automated answering system that can be sent to a number of extensions.<\/li>\n<li>Your startup will save both time and money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s crucial when you\u2019re building a company from the ground up and need to reduce costs as much as possible. Switch to VoIP and you\u2019ll reduce some of your overhead. Now, if only printer ink was this cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overhead. It\u2019s one of the fastest ways to reduce costs for a start-up and one of the quickest ways to hemorrhage money. Many startups\u00a0may not\u00a0have\u00a0consistent\u00a0cash flow so having high office expenses, such as phone expenses, can really put a dent in your pocket.\u00a0 This is especially true if you have a phone system that charges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197133,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38942\/revisions\/197133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}