There are many overheads that all businesses have that could be dramatically reduced, but that the businesses themselves completely overlook. One such area is phone calls, and all areas of a company’s expenditure on phone bills could easily be reduced.
The first thing to do is to ensure that you shop around for the right business tariffs for any mobile phones that are paid for by the company. Next, be sure that you sell on any older phones to mobile phone recycling companies instead of just forgetting about them when you furnish your employees with new handsets.
Then there are the actual calls themselves. Whilst the best tariffs may make calls to UK landlines and mobiles extremely cheap, the majority of businesses will at times also have to make international calls.
One of the biggest expenditures for companies in terms of phone calls is that of mobile international calls. A great many businesses will just absorb the cost and pay each bill as they come in, but by simply purchasing calling time from dedicated companies, the cost of calling abroad can drop dramatically.
In fact, in many cases, purchasing time to make these cheap international calls can actually leave the price you pay for the calls being lower than it is to make landline-to-landline calls to people in your own country.
It is not only easy to find cheap international calls when you look at companies online, but you may well also find other ways of staying in touch. Whilst purchasing call time will be the best way to get in touch with those you need to, if calls can be scheduled (which is usually rare), it can be even cheaper to simply call them using the internet itself. This can be more fiddly and needs you to ensure that both you and those you are calling are at a computer, but, combined with purchasing calling time, such a simple approach can serve to turn what can be a very expensive part of a company into one that costs almost nothing.