| Saving money is top of the list for any business, | | | | For business users who have satellite offices |
| particularly small businesses or start-ups. One of | | | | abroad, VoIP has the added benefit of allowing |
| the biggest drains on resources can be the bill for | | | | you to communicate much more easily with your |
| communications - your telephony bill. Utility | | | | colleagues, even if they're on the other side of |
| charges, line rental, international call charges and | | | | the world. VoIP effectively turns international |
| even local calls to satellite offices can all mount up | | | | Internet calls into local, cheap rate calls because it |
| quickly to eat into your annual profits. So wouldn't | | | | bypasses the expensive landline set-up. Phoning |
| it be great if there was a business tool that could | | | | your office in Dubai, Sydney or Mumbai using a |
| provide you with a way of maintaining those | | | | VoIP set-up is fundamentally the same as sending |
| communications, staying in touch with your | | | | an email, and if you have the right business |
| customers, clients and colleagues and still save | | | | broadband connection, that means that call is |
| money? | | | | practically cost-free. |
| There is. It's called VoIP and it's the next | | | | Showing you're serious about business |
| generation in telephony. | | | | It also has another advantage - it shows your |
| The smart business move | | | | customers that you're prepared for modern |
| VoIP (also known as Voice over Internet | | | | business. Nothing shouts go-getting, cutting edge |
| Protocol) uses your broadband connection to | | | | and pro-active like using the latest technology to |
| make telephone calls instead of the traditional | | | | enhance your business performance. Using VoIP |
| landline system. By breaking the data down into | | | | to make cheap international calls shows that |
| 'packets', VoIP can connect with a PC on the | | | | you're business-savvy, you're smart and you're |
| other side of the world and instantly transpose | | | | serious about doing business in a global arena. With |
| those data packets into audio signals, effectively | | | | the ability to conference call, your customers can |
| turning your PC into a telephone. And because | | | | talk to you whenever they want to, and they'll |
| you're using your existing broadband connection in | | | | feel the benefits too because it won't cost them |
| the same way that you would to send an email, | | | | anything to check up on a delivery or make an |
| the call doesn't actually cost you anything apart | | | | order. If you think about how much 'freephone' |
| from your standard broadband charges. | | | | numbers benefited businesses in previous years, |
| Effectively this can make international calls | | | | you can immediately see the attraction of the |
| extremely cheap, even free. | | | | next generation version of that system. |
| For businesses, that can only be a benefit. As | | | | So if you're serious about business, about saving |
| business changes, the idea of 'international trading | | | | money and about maintaining good business |
| borders' has become so last century. Thanks to | | | | contacts with your clients and customers |
| the Internet, your business marketplace is now a | | | | overseas, think about how VoIP could help you to |
| global one, not just local. Which means to stay | | | | make cheap international calls. Then go online and |
| ahead of the competition, you have to be able to | | | | find the best VoIP package to suit your business |
| communicate effectively with clients and | | | | needs. Your bank balance and your accountant will |
| customers all over the world. | | | | thank you... |