If you’re looking to grow your business, consider serving micro-enterprises with 1-20 employees. According to the Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, firms with between 1-20 employees made up 89% of all U.S. firms in 2016. While this has traditionally been an underserved market when it comes to VoIP telecommunications, more and more equipment manufacturers are offering products tailored to their needs. In this article, we review some cutting-edge devices that are ideal for micro-enterprises.
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VoIP products and services for micro-enterprises
Topics: Customer Service, SIP Phones, IP PBX, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Grandstream, Yealink, Trends, Mobility (including remote work), Headsets, Leasing, Videoconferencing, Conferencing, Android, Product Review, Business Strategy, Bluetooth, Yeastar, Avaya
Turn your equipment costs into an OpEx using a DaaS model
Device as a service (DaaS) is a growing trend for all types of companies who don’t want to tie up their capital in business equipment. With DaaS, you rent the equipment for a small monthly fee without having to pay anything up front, and the monthly payments count as an operating expense rather than as a capital expense.
Offering a DaaS equipment rental program to your customers is a great way to provide equipment for companies who might not have the budget allocated to buy equipment, or who would prefer to account for the expense as an operating expense. In this article, we show you how you can easily offer a DaaS rental program to your customers.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, Total Voice Solution, Trends
Three elements of a great interactive voice response (IVR)
Note from TeleDynamics: Allison Smith will be at our booth (#1472) at Channel Partners in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 from 4-7 p.m. to answer your questions about IVR best practices and about how to offer professionally voiced greetings to your customers. Also, get a free, professionally voiced opening IVR greeting for every IP PBX you buy from TeleDynamics through June 30, 2019. See details below.
By Allison Smith, The IVR Voice.com
When clients send me IVR trees to voice, the scripts are already written, usually very methodically crafted, and debated over – even hotly contested among groups of decision makers within companies. In extreme cases, the script has even made its way through the legal department for final approval.
It’s a rare thing when prospective clients approach me before the script is written. When they do, I implore them to be clear on a few things before they write the first word of their phone tree.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Total Voice Solution
The missing piece in the phone system installer's puzzle
Three reasons your customer should not be recording their own IVR greetings
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By Allison Smith, The IVR Voice.com
You’re an installer. You’re on the front lines of ensuring that companies – large or small – have their telecommunications systems installed, scaled to the appropriate size, and working seamlessly. You’re part engineer, part salesperson, and a huge part problem-solver in the installing and maintaining of telephony systems.
You’re actually putting together an intricate puzzle. But most installers don’t realize that a significant piece of that puzzle is missing.
Topics: Customer Service, Outsourcing, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Total Voice Solution
Customizing a VoIP deployment for your multisite customer
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at different ways to structure multisite VoIP deployments. The truth is, each business is unique and sometimes a customized architecture is needed. In this article we look at a hybrid solution. A hybrid call processing deployment allows you to craft a solution that is perfectly tailored to a specific customer’s needs.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Total Voice Solution, Network Design
Tips for streamlining dial plan normalization in multisite VoIP deployments
Implementing telephony solutions in an enterprise environment can be daunting. The level of difficulty and complexity usually escalates with the number of end users. Implementing a telephony solution in a multisite environment takes the complexity to a different level altogether.
In this article we offer up some tips for streamlining the implementation of a multisite VoIP deployment so the company can derive the maximum benefit from the solution.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Total Voice Solution, Network Design
Take an inside look at Yealink’s education solutions
If you work with educational institutions, you should know about Yealink and its communications solutions specifically tailored to the needs of the education sector. When you take advantage of Yealink’s Education Reseller Program, you will be able to deliver a robust and reliable solution at a highly competitive price point.
In this article, we review Yealink’s education solutions and what makes this manufacturer a great choice for learning institutions.
Topics: Customer Service, Total Voice Solution, Yealink, Customer Success Story
The 3 most common hybrid deployments for VoIP-to-analog solutions
By Brian Van Meter, Community Marketing Specialist, Grandstream Networks*
Voice over IP delivers major improvements to traditional communication networks, and as a result legacy analog phone systems are on their way out. Ten years ago, 80% of homes had landlines, but today that number is down to 43%— and businesses are following this trend, as well. However much VoIP is becoming the go-to technology for communications, it is important to acknowledge that certain markets cannot fully convert to a total VoIP solution. Not recognizing this could lead to loss in potential sales against competitors. In these situations, a hybrid VoIP network can help deliver the flexibility and power of an IP solution while catering to the restraints of your customer. Below are some of the most common situations and their solutions.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Grandstream, Business Strategy
We speak a lot about unified communications and how network convergence allows it. Getting your customers migrated to VoIP is the first step to introducing them to unified communications (UC). Once that is established, they will be much more likely to embrace UC if you can show them the business problems it can help solve.
In this article, we look at some of the key drivers of demand for UC, which you can keep in mind when selling systems upgrades to your customers.
Topics: Customer Service, Business Telephone System, VoIP, Total Voice Solution, Software Integration, Productivity
TeleDynamics Think Tank named Blog of the Year
We are pleased to announce that TeleDynamics has been named a silver winner in the Blog of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards.
Launched in March 2016, the Think Tank blog leverages TeleDynamics’ in-house expertise in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and networking to create content that will help telephone systems channel partners build successful businesses.
A Texas-sized thank you!
We would like to thank our customers, who by reading our articles and engaging with us through the blog have fueled its success. We are also grateful to our manufacturers and partners, who have contributed content as guest bloggers or have shared customer success stories and other content.
“We created the Think Tank blog as a way to provide a valuable information resource for our customers,” said Maria Leyendecker, Director of Marketing at TeleDynamics. “Our relationship with our dealers is what matters most to us, and we have enjoyed leveraging this platform as one of many ways to engage with them.”
Topics: Customer Service, News
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