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

Friday, February 21, 2014

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. Keep down your costs. Initial investment is always a challenge for start up. The cloud addresses this head on, since there's no need to buy or maintain servers, routers, and related equipment.

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. 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. Collaboration is enhanced. Employees can work on the same document, even in real time, from diverse locations, or even from the field, when it's all equally and easily accessible 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

I know we pitched the 9 benefits of the cloud, but here's a bonus one:

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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