{"id":58883,"date":"2012-11-03T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/?p=58883"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:58:46","slug":"avoid-this-telecommunications-mistake-during-a-business-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/avoid-this-telecommunications-mistake-during-a-business-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid this Telecommunications Mistake During a Business Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58923 alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid orange; margin: 0px 5px;\" title=\"Ben Sayers, CEO of VoIP Supply\" alt=\"Ben Sayers, CEO of VoIP Supply\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2012\/11\/Ben-Sayers_VoIP-Supply_headshot.jpg\" width=\"102\" height=\"102\" \/>Ben Sayers, CEO of VoIP Supply, knows a thing or three about changing locations when a business outgrows its space.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that things always go as planned.<\/p>\n<h2>Coordinate Your Move with Telecommunications Providers<\/h2>\n<p>The National Federation of Independent Business asked for Ben&#8217;s advice on <b>what to avoid during a business move<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>VoIP Supply bought its first building and moved in during December 2010 to start the New Year in a new headquarters. \u00a0Ben tells the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If your business depends on phone and Internet service to operate smoothly, give your providers 6-8 weeks&#8217; notice to ensure timely installation of services in your new location.<\/p>\n<p>When Ben Sayers moved his telecommunications business VoIP Supply to the other side of Buffalo, N.Y., a setback in the closing date led to a 10-day delay in data connectivity after the move. &#8220;We essentially had to connect our new office to our old office through 3G, and all our connectivity had to go between the two buildings. It was very expensive,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Sayers, CEO of VoIP Supply, knows a thing or three about changing locations when a business outgrows its space. That doesn&#8217;t mean that things always go as planned. Coordinate Your Move with Telecommunications Providers The National Federation of Independent Business asked for Ben&#8217;s advice on what to avoid during a business move. VoIP Supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58883","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=58883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192463,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58883\/revisions\/192463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}