When You Know It's Time for Hosted PBX

You may not realize it, but your landline phone system could be hurting your business. Datedness causes pain in many places: your wallet, customer service, and even administration.

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The Value of a Missed Call and How to Recover from One

Modern businesses encourage prospects to get in touch through many channels. But as popular as social media and email are, most consumers still prefer to call for information. Research compiled by Answer-4u estimates that 80% of inbound communications occur over the phones.

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What Are the Advantages of Software as a Service (SaaS)?

The term cloud computing comes up a lot these days. In short, it refers to the act of connecting with online services to store and manage data. Through cloud computing, businesses can streamline processes through resources tailored to niche demands. Providers host solutions for all industries and applications. Most things once in-house now exist somewhere in the cloud.

What Are the Advantages of Software as a Service (SaaS)?

Select the Best Hold Music for Your Phone System

Music on hold reduces the perceived time waiting in a call queue. AT&T found that a 30-second wait without background music feels more like 90 seconds.

Considering wait times average 38 seconds, businesses should purge silence from their phone system. After all, most callers abandon queues around the 2-minute mark. Anything done to reduce the lengthiness—either real or imaged—is important.

Select the Best Hold Music for Your Phone System

How to Write a Professional Voice Message Greeting

As prospects and customers, we form impressions off menu greetings. We judge based on vocal clarity, intonation, and personality—not to mention the audio quality. Therefore, when implementing your own voice message greeting, consider such factors carefully.

How to Write a Professional Voice Message Greeting

How to Determine Your Maximum Concurrent Call Volume

On a landline phone system, the number of lines determines the number of calls it can process. For IP-based phones, channels or trunks dictate how many simultaneous calls can be handled.

A trunk can be either inbound, outbound, or two-way. Many hosted PBX providers sell per user, at which point the type of trunk is irrelevant. That user will always have the ability to place and receive calls.

How to Determine Your Maximum Concurrent Call Volume

Types of Audio Codecs on an IP Phone

Many hosted PBX users worry about bandwidth. Yet voice quality hinges less on the bandwidth available and more on how the phones handle it. This relates to data compression, the process of squishing files. Regarding hosted PBX, this is the audio codecs.

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