5 Tips to Reduce your Company’s’ Communication Expenses
Posted on September 16, 2009
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Second only to Payroll, communications is the largest expense facing most businesses today. GILL Technologies is a solutions firm that specializes in helping businesses to manage their communications expenses and reduce over all costs by up to 50%. Below are 5 tips for reducing your company’s communications expenses.
1. Check Your Bills for Errors: This tip is so obvious that many companies overlook it. In fact, companies typically overpay six to eight percent on their telecommunications invoices because of billing errors. The most common problems are circuits that have been disconnected but have continued to be billed, and invoices that do not reflect new, lower rates.
2. Renegotiate your contracts: If your telecom contract is set for automatic renewal, you might be cheating yourself out of a better deal. Talk to other providers and see if they can beat the price you’re currently paying or can offer more services for the same price.
3. Consider VoIP: You’ve probably heard the buzz around Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). It’s already taking the enterprise world by storm, and adoption among small and mid-size businesses is gradually increasing. VoIP enables you to use your data network — which you already use to access the Internet — to place phone calls. It can be more cost effective than owning your own private branch exchange (PBX), not only because the equipment is cheaper, but also because you can make many of your calls without ever using the public switched telephone network or paying for long distance.
4. Assign appropriate plans for cell phone users: Avoid small business cell phone plans that offer more minutes than your employees actually use. If they need to make more phone calls at certain times of the year – like during tradeshow season, peak sales visit periods, or other special projects – consider buying more minutes during those times or carrying forward minutes from previous months. That way, you aren’t paying bloated prices year round.
5. Use conferencing instead of traveling: Conference Calling has quickly become a popular system of business-related communications. Company representatives may now promote their product or service and present business proposals to remote clients without need for actual travel and the incident expenses of lodging and utilities. Aside from money, the company’s time is also used more efficiently since scheduling conferences over the phone can be done by just dialling the phone. This can be used in conjunction with Web Conferences as well.
For most companies the above suggestions can be quite daunting and expensive to handle internally. Outsourcing the management of telecom, data, wireless and new technology costs, can often be your best solution. For information on how GILL Technologies can help in the areas of communications expense audits, management and reporting, and a dedicated ClientCare support team, contact us at 1-877-507-6988 or visit us online at www.gill-technologies.comwww.gill-technologies.com
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As we are in the 21st century, new technology is being developed. Ever since Edison discovered electricity, we have created tons of new technologies every generation: from the first car to space telescopes.
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Although passing mention of this idea had been made at many points in history, it was apparently the English scientist Robert Hooke who first gave a vivid and comprehensive outline of visual telegraphy to the Royal Society in a submission dated 1684; in it he outlined many practical details, but his system was never put into practice.
Over a hundred years later a French engineer, Claude Chappe and his brothers took up the challenge again and succeeded to cover France with a network of 556 stations stretching a total distance of 4,800 kilometres. It was used for military and national communications until the 1850s.
Many national services adopted signaling systems different from the Chappe system. For example, Britain and Sweden adopted systems of shuttered panels (in contradiction to the Chappe brothers' contention that angled rods are more visible). In Spain, the engineer AgustÃn de Betancourt developed his own system which was adopted by that state. This system was considered by many experts in Europe better than Chappe's, even in France.
media and ICT has very important role toplay in todays world , characterised by hateredness and violence to a great extent. Today media is used as tool of communoication and propoganda by various sources. If we observe closely it is very clear that media in its urge to give the hottest news fast to their audience has forgotten the ethics. They never seems to think whether their news coverage helps to improve the situation or it by itself will worsen the existing situation. Many times crimes and violence is glorified in media. The indiscriminate reporting of race and communal clashes further result in filling hatredness in the minds of people and lead to further violence.
In its attempt to stay ahead in news media indiscriminatly publishes and relays the information ( it may be true) . This causes severe damage to the social fabric.
In this situation it is the duty of media to play a constructive role in keeping wold peace for following reasons.
… media has terrible influence on viewers, so if it relays positive information and highlights developments and good things around the world it will help in developing positive mentality among people.
Even when reporting crime and gory details, it should refrain from glorifying it. Instead should give true picture of incidents with a positive attitude so that it will help not to get provoked and to regret and disown negative tendencies.
It should highlight the benefits of peace through its variuous programs.
Even ICT is today abused by communalists,terrorists and other vested interests .. if alll these is avoided definitly there will be a better world.
Every Invention has got both advantages and disadvantages
Invention is just like a knife with two sharp edged one good and other bad
Internet Camera! take a picture and it uploads automatically to sites like Flickr!
multi player games on Internet and handhelds!
Google maps and trip planning.
Youtube, instant entertainment for the masses!
evolving standards in Email delivery (push imap…)
those are just the ones that came to mind…. and I use them all!
you're all over the place here. Could you please simplify your question?
Embedded subcutaneous cell phones that have no external hardware and charge themselves from bio-chemical symbiosis with body fluids. Voice activated and visual "injection" into the optical cortex and aural processing centers – hell may as well throw olfactory I/O and "the sex channel" to allow you to share those special moments with your A-list black book entries.
The cell bill will be killer….