hot net 2 u - Internet Knowledge Articles 91352

Web Link Alliance Partners - Top Search Engine Ranking Solution For Your Client Websites From Web Link Alliance
Partner with Web Link Alliance to add Search Engine Optimization to your product offering. Top Search Engine Rankings with minimal changes to your client websites through a system of web services and a link exchange program where you can Purchase Links directly.

I`m a manager in a small UK company whose portfolio also includes looking after the company`s computers and telecommunications. On a daily basis I am contacted by telecom firms asking me if they can take `just 10 minutes of my time to save me 60% on my phone bills or similar`. Now these guys are not selling VoIP but something called carrier pre-select. That`s when you pay your line rental to one company and pay for your call charges to another, who will charge you at a lower rate than the line rental company.

I have to say these guys are seasoned telesales people. They know every trick in the book to keep you talking, a few haven`t even got the hint from my standard line of `I need to finish this conversation now and hang up the phone`. Anyway to get me a better line to tell these guy`s I`d love to be able to say `we?re on VoIP, and you can`t compete with those prices`. However, I can`t use that line yet. Why? Because my ISP connection uptime is not reliable enough to switch.

Design Agency Manchester
The old website that was created by a Design Agency Manchester has served you proud for the past 2 years and when you first started up in business it was just what you needed to give you an immediate online presence. That was then and this is now, a few years down the line, and the time is right to enhance the current site to reflect your business growth. As the business has developed you are receiving more telephone calls from potential customers asking you to provide them with further details about the services and goods that you supply. This is one area where the website could work on your behalf as a few additional pages could be added with that contained useful information. Therefore you have been in touch with the Design Agency Manchester that helped to create your original site. They did a fabulous job first time around and people always give you positive comments about your site. With this in mind you have asked the Design Agency Manchester to provide you with a larger package. They`ll be designing a new 6-10 page website that will provide your customers of old and new with far greater detail about your firm and the products and services that it provides.

A few weeks ago after a thunderstorm we lost full ADSL connection in one of our branches for three days. Now if that weren?t bad enough to lose e-mail capability and the various web sites crucial to the running of our business, if we had lost phone capability as well then as a recruitment agency we would have lost both business and customers.

This is not the only service outage we have experienced, I would approximate that once a month we can expect to lose service for at least 3 hours in one of our branches. You might suggest that I move to a more reputable supplier, however we are with one of the largest and most well known ISP`s in the UK, so we do not really have the option of changing to a different supplier. Until the ISP?s can guarantee a better continuation of service then I shan?t be recommending VoIP to our Managing Director for his business.

� Mike Bromley 2005

For more information about this article and/or the author visit http://www.speakonline.co.uk/voip_for_business.htm

For more information, news and articles see: