For small business owners, a phone line is like a life line. As a small business owner, you are always on the run and need to use your phone all the time to contact customers, vendors, employees and others. With the advent of Smart Phones it has become even possible to conduct many aspects of the business with the phone. As useful as phone is to help you do the business from the road, all that heavy usage can add up to pretty hefty phone bill. If you are not careful you can easily incur hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars in phone bill in a short time. So is there any way to reduce this expense and still be able to conduct business on the go?
Fortunately, the answer is yes. Internet and broadband has made it possible to use what is called virtual pbx that can help you get all the functionality, and more, at a fraction of the cost. A virtual pbx is like a phone switchboard that businesses would install on their premises to be able to have multiple phone lines and get additional functionality. The virtual pbx enables you get all that without having to install the switchboard on your premises. The companies providing this have a cloud based infrastructure that lets you get the functionality over the internet.
Virtual pbx can provide additional functionality that traditional phone line cannot provide. For example, you can make phone using traditional landline, mobile phone, or even your desktop computer or laptop. You can customize it to route the calls to any phone you like depending on where you happen to be at any given time. A virtual pbx is still able to provide all the standard features such as Voicemail, Call Blocking, Call Waiting, Caller ID, Call Forwarding, Three-way Calling and more. It can provide all of these functionality at a fraction of the cost because of shared infrastructure and the ability to deliver it over internet.
As a small business owner if you are looking to reduce your phone expense without sacrificing features and quality you should definitely look into virtual pbx.
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