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Staying connected, even when your work force is dispersed, could be the determining factor as to whether your business shrinks or grows. Use of a hosted phone service is crucial in positioning small to medium sized businesses so they can maintain or improve levels of productivity, especially during times like we are currently facing today.

The Value of Hosted Communications

Hosted communications enable your business to seamlessly transition into a full remote workforce, as well as supports any hybrid (home & office) decreased staff density scenario, without having to sacrifice time, costs, or customer satisfaction. Vantage Unified Communications’ MAXvoice offers a robust communications feature set, including a built-in web phone, team chat, desktop-to-desktop video, 4-digit dialing between team members – regardless of work location…all accompanied by unlimited live support from our Communications Concierge Team.

Communications Concierge Team

Vantage’s Communications Concierge Team presents a dedicated group of telephony specialists, available 24/7 to assist you with anything you need to ensure that you are getting the most out of your phone system. Our Concierge Team members become an extended part of your team, allowing your staff to focus on your business and customers, without the burden of phone-related issues slowing them down.

Mobility

Having a distanced workforce will likely become normal for many businesses going forward. No matter where your employees are located, they can stay connected and continue to perform their typical business functions. With MAXvoice, users can use any internet-connected device as their work phone. This is ideal for people choosing to work from home full-time, as well as those that work in the field or are traveling.

Multi-Site Support

Whether your employees are spread out among multiple offices, multiple states, or they are working from home, they can connect and communicate just as if they were in the same building. With 4-digit dialing between team members or quick and efficient call handling/transfers, MAXvoice enables you to Communicate more even when apart. Learn more about how MAXvoice can help your business today by visiting us at https://www.vantageunified.com/

There are many websites that offer “royalty free” images.  With a one-time purchase of these vector files and you can utilize these images for your website.  

Simple changes to images on your website could bring a fresh new look and feel to the site.  

You might even consider adding video.  There are “royalty free” video’s out there that can be added to provide a  look and new dimension to the site. Videos, even if it’s just a motion video that is eye catching, can make a big difference.  

Motion word ads can help as well.  Firms can use your “sales copy” and convert them to a short motion video of a product ad or short topic about your business.  Perhaps announcing a new service, a new customer or new employee?

Remember, it’s the simple things that can make the difference!

It’s easy to forget about your website.  You might see it every day, but do you remember to keep the “operating system” and “security” up to date?

Most websites are built on a Content Management System (CMS) of some type. Corporate level CMS operating systems offer “security” options to protect your site. Don’t forget to keep those security policies and operating systems current. WordPress is the CMS operating system that FinTel Communications uses to build many of our customer sites.  There are millions of “plugins” for doing anything on your website.  The “plugins” get changed frequently and need to be updated regularly.  

The operating systems and plugins could have security issues, if not monitored and updated. The big drawback is that you should have an experienced engineering team to do these upgrades.  Some developers of these plugins build in new and / or drastic changes that could affect the entire site design and format.

Contact your site developer and ask them for consultation on this.  Usually these firms like, FinTel Communications, offer site management to manage and monitor updates to plugins and operating systems. Don’t hesitate to ask for help and the investment will be well worth it.

Many businesses are working from home right now. The good side of this is that you have no commute, you can get coffee refills fairly easily and you don’t have coworkers stepping up to your desk all day bothering you with gossip. Let’s admit it, you have a little extra time on your hands. How about looking at your website? This is a great time to write a new Blog post, make some edits to the site or redesign it all together.

Take advantage of this extra time to focus on your site. How about changing out the images?  Maybe updating some bio’s of your staff?  Is the contact email address or office address and phone number still correct? Making a few changes / updates would be good to freshen up your site. Does the About page of your corporate story include everything important that you want the public to know about your company?

Services? Maybe you created some new services or broadened current services to do more for your customer? Services need to be up to date so that your prospects know what corporate capabilities are available to them.  If you have prices on your Services, are those still correct? 

Colors on the website are very important.  Maybe its time to change the colors or at the minimum re-arrange the colors on the site? Move the colors from one area to another, but keeping the same colors on the site.  It will give the illusion of a new design.

These are all simple suggestions for you to consider to give your site a new look and feel.

Refresh the site! FinTel Communications can help you decide which is best and easiest to update to give your website a new look with little pain and effort.