There’s an old New Yorker article that states it costs relatively the same amount of money to print 1,500 sheets of paper as is does to print a single sheet, because the bulk of the cost is in the initial setup of the printer. The same is true for businesses: if you can reduce costs by leveraging existing cloud infrastructure, you have an advantage from the beginning, and VoIP business Hosted PBX is an ideal way to accomplish this.
Here are some simple ways business Hosted PBX can help you run multiple companies or entities out of the same office PBX:
- VoIP makes it easy to add separate phone numbers with call routing, and set up business hours on the same system, so you don’t have any more equipment to purchase, or “lines” to install.
- Business VoIP often provides the ability to change the outbound caller ID, so you can avoid the need for additional hires by empowering a current employee to be “Company ‘’A’” on one call and “Company ‘B’” on the next. Or you can have different company caller IDs associated with two different numbers.
- One VoIP system can cover multiple offices or mobile workers, so you can add that new employee remotely, eliminating the need to purchase extra office space.
A lot of business owners who’ve been bit by the entrepreneurial bug are creating some great small business combos. People like Mike Del Florio, CTO of Broadway Management, who says that the Teliance VoIP-based phone service using Polycom VVX 600 phones is the perfect fit to get the most productivity out his day to day tasks. “The ability to manage multiple companies with one call staff is incredible,” he says.
Professional marketing companies have been using this approach for years with expensive, premises-based PBXs.