The 9 benefits for small business working through the cloud include and exceed improvements in email application.
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. The insurance of endurance. For many small businesses the permanent loss, destruction or malfunction of one single laptop could spell disaster. And, even for those not so precariously perched on the technological precipice, an unforeseen disaster, like a fire or flood, could wipe-out your documents and records and, in the process, your business. Store your email contacts and other vital documents in the cloud for priceless insurance against disaster. Soon as you're back online you're back in business.
4. Enhance collaboration. Your employees are able to work on a common document. Furthermore, they can do so in real time, from multiple locations, including from the field. It's equally and easily accessible for them all when working in the cloud.
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. 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. Work force mobility. Reduce costs through employee work-from-home arrangements or with contract workers. Or, perhaps your business requires much travel in the field. In either case, working through the cloud keeps everyone connected, even when they're 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. Rethink retraining. If all these great benefits have you pondering what will be the hidden costs to retrain your staff for cloud computing, think again. Your employees have nothing new to learn at all. Saving a document, doing Excel calculations, preparing a PowerPoint presentation or composing an email, on the cloud, is exactly the same click and point experience with which they're already familiar.
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 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.
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. The insurance of endurance. For many small businesses the permanent loss, destruction or malfunction of one single laptop could spell disaster. And, even for those not so precariously perched on the technological precipice, an unforeseen disaster, like a fire or flood, could wipe-out your documents and records and, in the process, your business. Store your email contacts and other vital documents in the cloud for priceless insurance against disaster. Soon as you're back online you're back in business.
4. Enhance collaboration. Your employees are able to work on a common document. Furthermore, they can do so in real time, from multiple locations, including from the field. It's equally and easily accessible for them all when working in the cloud.
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. 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. Work force mobility. Reduce costs through employee work-from-home arrangements or with contract workers. Or, perhaps your business requires much travel in the field. In either case, working through the cloud keeps everyone connected, even when they're 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. Rethink retraining. If all these great benefits have you pondering what will be the hidden costs to retrain your staff for cloud computing, think again. Your employees have nothing new to learn at all. Saving a document, doing Excel calculations, preparing a PowerPoint presentation or composing an email, on the cloud, is exactly the same click and point experience with which they're already familiar.
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 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.
About the Author:
Entrepreneurs that need to keep up on the hottest news and info for email and other IT opportunities need to follow the Verizon Small Business Email blog. Mishu Hull is a leading commentator on technology. See Mishu's no-holds-barred review of the most recent Kindle Fire release.
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