Without a shadow of doubt, the easiest way to increase the profitability of your business through technology is to review your existing fixed and mobile communications costs. Over 90% of companies waste money that they don’t need to, simply because they’re not on the correct tariff or are with an inappropriate service provider.
From recent studies, over 60% of organisations pay too much for their telecommunications with their existing provider and over 90% could benefit by switching service to an alternate provider.
So the No.1 tip we offer to all our clients is to simply review (at least annually) your existing communications. If you haven’t done so this year, then try and make it a priority.
It’s important to do this accurately, so avoid being blinded by vendors who simply offer ‘headline rates’ for comparison. Many marketing tricks are in existence and are designed to confuse us in our ‘time challenged’ moments, so make sure you study the small print.
Additionally, it’s important to ensure that all of your existing lines are actually being utilised effectively. We find, in many cases, that some of our customer’s telephone lines are actually not required and can be removed altogether. Also, remember that it’s now possible to integrate the billing of your telephone calls with the rental of your lines and many service providers will offer further incentives for doing this enabling you to reduce costs further.
For mobile communications, be sure to dig beneath the marketing hype and make sure that you understand the implications and differences between bundled minutes tariffs and 'pence per minute'.
Our clients typically reduce costs by more than 25% without having to make complicated decisions about new technology and it takes little to no effort on their behalf since we can check over 300 tariffs in the UK marketplace in order to derive the best solution.
If you'd like us to perform a free financial healthcheck on your existing voice communications, please contact us on 0845 055 6545 or send an email to enquiries@ortiga.co.uk.