Monday, March 10, 2014

Verizon Small Business Email And The 9 Benefits Of Life In The Clouds

By Mishu Hull


Floating on cloud 9 is made much easier for small businesses, these days, thanks to the many benefits of working through Verizon small business cloud computing. Such benefits include but are not limited to email applications.

1. Keeping costs down. Especially when starting up a new business, using the cloud reduces initial investment. You don't have to buy (or maintain!) all those servers, routers, and stuff.

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. Collaboration is enhanced. Employees can work on the same document, even in real time, from diverse locations, or even from the field, when it's all equally and easily accessible in the cloud.

5. Flexible tech is created by the cloud, allowing you and your employees to access important documents, and respond to email, using a variety of convenient devices.

6. Improve your security. Big time! Verizon small business email services, like all the top cloud providers, offer security from sabotage and theft which is far beyond the costs constraints of most small businesses. They allow small businesses to benefit from pooled resources. It serves you in much the same way as joining a group health care plan.

7. Mobility of work force. If you want to reduce costs through employees working from home or using contract workers, or your business requires much travel in the field, the cloud is the way to keep everyone connected while still on the move.

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.

I know we pitched the 9 benefits of the cloud, but here's a bonus one:

10. It's way cool. Hey, that counts for something.

If you're interesting in more information about Verizon small business email service and figuring out if it's the right way to go for your business, I suggest you have a look at this article, where I explore the pros and cons.




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