Hiring full time employees can be expensive and time consuming. It brings necessities such as offering benefits, having human resources policies, and choosing the right workers for the right tasks. This can take a lot of time away from work and cause headaches.
Often, many businesses look at this and turn instead to freelancers and consultants. That way, they can pay for just the work they need and sign contracts for just the length of time they need to help. And if you are willing to have telecommuters, your talent pool can be worldwide, which can be a great advantage.
The only worry about having freelancers and consultants who aren't in the office is that you may not look and act like a cohesive business. Businesses can overcome this with some effort. Be sure to keep the lines of communication open. To help with this, have one virtual PBX phone system, so customers can call a central line to reach anyone and employees and freelancers can call each other simply by dialing extensions. Also, consider having events occasionally that bring everyone together for some face time and company bonding.Labels: Phone System, Small Business
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This is the best Phone system I had in 10 years as a small business. We switched from Verizon to Vonage which didnt have IP PBX features. Then we switched again to Speakeasy. Even though calls quality was good, our bill was still coming out to $400 ( 6 lines and 2 fax lines). If you deledte lines, they will charge you 5 month fee which is ridiculous. Then I found ringcentral.com and my phone bill now is $80-90 monthly. I saved over $3000 a year. I am very happy with call quality, Outlook integration and best of all Fax capability. I have all the controls I want in the web. I would recommend Ringcentral to any small business. If you are not using Ringcentral, you are losing communication advatanges.
This is the best Phone system I had in 10 years as a small business. We switched from Verizon to Vonage which didnt have IP PBX features. Then we switched again to Speakeasy. Even though calls quality was good, our bill was still coming out to $400 ( 6 lines and 2 fax lines). If you deledte lines, they will charge you 5 month fee which is ridiculous. Then I found ringcentral.com and my phone bill now is $80-90 monthly. I saved over $3000 a year. I am very happy with call quality, Outlook integration and best of all Fax capability. I have all the controls I want in the web. I would recommend Ringcentral to any small business. If you are not using Ringcentral, you are losing communication advatanges.
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