Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Floating On Cloud 9: Reaping The 9 Benefits Of Verizon Small Business Email In The Cloud

By Mishu Hull


The 9 benefits for small business working through the cloud include and exceed improvements in email application.

1. Cut your costs. Penny pinching is the hard facts of life for most small business. Let the cloud help. When you do your computing through the cloud there's no costs for the purchase and maintenance of servers, routers, and related equipment.

2. Scale up as you grow. Buying your own equipment presents the danger of technological lock-in. Once you've bought it you're stuck with it, whether it's appropriate to current conditions or not. Neither a fickle economy nor the usual ups and downs of small business prevent you from tailoring and adjusting your IT plans as the economy changes and your business evolves.

3. Durability is resiliency. For some small businesses, the loss of a laptop can be disastrous. Even though for one not so precarious, a major fire or flood could wipe out your office, along with all your tech and records. If your email contact list, as well as other key documents, are on a cloud, soon as you're back online you're ready to resume your business just where you left off.

4. Collaborate better than ever. Imagine your employees able to collaborate on the key documents for a rapidly approaching deadline. And as bonus, they can do so in real time, from anywhere. Working through the cloud makes it easy to do.

5. Technological flexibility in the cloud. Enable your employees and yourself to access vital documents, and reply to email, using a diversity of convenient devices.

6. Greater security. The top cloud providers, such as Verizon small business email services, are vastly more secure from sabotage and theft then the security systems that most small business can usually manage. This is top of the line security.

7. Keep that work force moving. Mobility can have all kinds of benefits. You can reduce costs with work-from-home arrangements or contract workers. For some small business, travel in the field is an important part of the business model. Working through the cloud keeps everyone on the move while still well connected.

8. Top drawer software features. If your small business can't afford the top shelf software programs, with all the bells and whistles, you may be sacrificing important and profitable functionality. It's not necessary. Economies of scale allow cloud clients to employ top drawer software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost. Love those economies of scale!

9. No new training. Despite all these benefits there is no need for expensive retraining of staff. The user interface for them is unchanged. Saving a document to or writing an email from the cloud is the same click and point experience as if they were doing it on your own server.

Okay, I know that I said there'd be 9 benefits of the cloud, but I can't resist throwing in a bonus point:

10. It's totally cool. And that definitely counts for something.

If you want to know more about where Verizon small business email service is right for you, check out this article.




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