Wednesday, February 19, 2014

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

By Mishu Hull


For small business, being on Cloud 9 is sure helped by the 9 benefits of working with Verizon small business cloud computing. Those benefits include and exceed the 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. Provides limitless scalability. The cloud also avoids cost from technology lock-in. In the ups and downs of a new business and a fickle economy, cloud use allows for tailored plans that can adjust for the changing needs of your business.

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. Increase your security. Dramatically! Top cloud providers like Verizon small business email services provide vastly superior security from sabotage and theft. Left to their own devices, for most small business, this level of security is way beyond their means. Benefit from the advantages of pooled resources, for the same reason you join 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. Superior software features. Few small businesses can afford to buy the very top line software, with all the bells and whistles. Certainly in the beginning and often well after it, small businesses compromise on the software with which they can get by. The cloud, with their economies of scale, serving so many other small businesses, can usually provide the top of the line software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost to you.

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.

For more information about Verizon small business email service and whether it's the ticket for you, check out this article.




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