Making the best business broadband and VOIP purchases for small businesses

Making the best business broadband and VOIP purchases for small businesses

As a small business owner, choosing the best business broadband and VIOP program is just as important as hiring reliable employees. With today’s location independent environment access to the best technology really does make a difference in both customer and employee acquisition and retention.

Knowing what will work best for your business can be a challenge at the start but knowing where to look can make the process easier.  VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol, phone systems make the most sense for a small business owner because of flexible features such as find me follow me technology and the ability to assign local phone numbers for your business even when you have multiple locations. Research has shown that one-third of all businesses are now using VoIP for their phone systems, and most of these businesses surveyed had a staff of 50 employees or fewer. 

So, what makes VoIP the best choice for your small business? Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is an internet-based phone service. So, rather than having a traditional phone jack like a public telephone network, these conversations are digitized and run through internet lines. This means improved voice quality and seamless connection. The cloud also makes VoIP a better choice. Companies can save equipment costs because using a cloud platform doesn’t require the business to purchase costly equipment, pay instillation costs, or hire an IT staff to maintain a landline system.  You have enough on your plate running a business. Let the ease of VoIP be the best choice to help you stay ahead of the game.

Of course, once you have chosen a VOIP service (we like Star2Star as a great option for small business) you can begin to make decisions on your business broadband needs.  How critical is video to your communications?  Will you have multiple staff members on VOIP calls with video concurrently? Do you upload and download large amounts of data? Will you offer guest WiFi?  These questions will help you answer your broadband needs and help you select the best business internet package.  However the best advice that anyone can give you is to buy the most bandwidth that is available in your area for your budget; more is more when it comes to broadband and most businesses under estimate their needs leading to spotty performance and frustrated employees and customers.  Don’t under buy and don’t overpay, we can help…click here for more information on both VOIP and Broadband available for your business.