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As small businesses experience VoIP phone service from a National Provider, many are left underwhelmed by the customer service and overwhelmed by the amount of self-servicing they need to do to have their phone system operate as they intend. Although features are robust, the requirement to self-program the phones and call flow leaves most small businesses confused. The provider’s customer service isn't necessarily helpful, as they mainly try to educate the business owner on how to use the self-servicing portal. 

Most businesses have made the switch to Hosted VoIP phone services, taking advantage of powerful features to improve their communication strategies both internally and externally. They also received the added benefit of finding an alternative to their traditional telephone provider who reciprocated their years of service with rate increases, outsourced customer service, and old technology. In making the switch, many have gravitated to the “national” providers whose marketing budgets cast a wide net over potential customers. In doing so, these businesses have found similarities to their previous relationships with their telecommunication provider and have been left underwhelmed and underserved in the process.

Hosted VoIP continues to evolve and has proven to be the best way to integrate business communications. Its flexibility, scalability and mobility keep the business connected…and saves businesses money over traditional phone service.  Whether your business is large or small, a cloud-based phone service possesses the adaptability and flexibility to match your current communication requirements and advance them forward.

Over the years, we've discussed the variety of advanced business phone features that a Hosted VoIP phone service delivers to businesses of all shapes and sizes.  These features have created a new standard for phone service, effectively making analog phone systems and service obsolete.  Moreover, they have transformed the communication practices of the businesses who have deployed them and utilized them to their fullest extent.  So, what is the most important feature of Hosted VoIP?

Leave the talk around building walls to the American political scene.  As a business owner, your business will benefit by figuratively tearing down walls and removing barriers to communication with the help of a Hosted VoIP phone service.  With Hosted VoIP, the walls of your business become translucent, as your phone system is no longer confined to your physical location.  Additionally, as the world becomes more and more "always-on" in terms of communication, your business can adjust communication practices to meet the evolving demands of your customers.

Isn’t technology wonderful?  It wasn’t that long ago when tweeting was only for the birds, (b)logging was something that occurred in Oregon, and surfing only occurred on the coasts. When you think about all the new and cool ways we communicate as business people, you may want to blow the dust off of your turn-of-the-century phone!  (Yes, sadly, the turn-of-the-century used to be 1900).