StartUp Guide
- Launch
- 1. Name Your Business
- 2. Domain Name & Business Website
- 3. Business Email Accounts
- 4. Phone & Fax Number
- 5. Business Mailing Address
- 6. Form an LLC
- 7. Employer ID Number
- 8. Business Bank Account
- Build Your Infrastructure
- 1. Select a Business Credit Card
- 2. Bookkeeping
- 3. Business Computer
- 4. Back Up Your Files
- 5. Payment Processing
- 6. Get Small Business Insurance
- Grow Your Business
- 1. Order Business Cards
- 2. Create Basic Marketing Materials
- 3. Promote With Social Media
- 4. Select an Email Marketing Service
- 5. Build Your Team
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Who Uses Business VoIP?
VoIP, or voice over Internet Protocol, allows you to make calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of an analog phone line. With the growth of cloud technology, businesses can use features like voice, text, and conferencing from anywhere, and any device. It’s a relatively new technology, but it’s one many businesses have started adopting. Curious to know what businesses use VoIP systems? Here’s a look at who is using some of the biggest cloud-based VoIP providers.
Nextiva
Scottsdale, Arizona-based Nextiva boasts more than 100,000 customers, and offers service throughout the U.S. The company was founded in 2006, and has won several awards for its product and service. In 2012, the company expanded its marketing efforts to get more small and medium-sized businesses. While the company describes itself as serving “thousands of small-to-midsize companies across the United States,” it has large customers, as well. Those include Burger King, Acura, IBM, Target, Delta Airlines, Allstate Insurance, and United Way.
RingCentral
RingCentral is based in San Mateo, California, and just went public in 2014. The company also has offices in the Philippines, Russia, and Ukraine. RingCentral recently announced a partnership with BT to offer BT Cloud Phone service to customers in the United Kingdom. Many of its clients are businesses with between 50 and 150 employees, although some are large, nationwide or international businesses with substantially more. Some of RingCentral’s largest clients include Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, TRUSTe, Belly, and Lyft.
Jive
Jive was founded in 2006, and is based in Orem, Utah. It offers products to a number of different industries, from business and enterprise, to K-12 education, higher education, government, and hospitality. Jive has big-name business clients, including Open Table, Panasonic, Hickory Farms, and Ford, as well as a number of school districts, hotels, and municipalities.
Phone.com
Phone.com is based in Livingston, New Jersey, and was founded in 2006. It has amassed quite a few awards for both growth and service since then. Like Nextiva, Phone.com describes itself as a solution for small to medium-sized businesses, but also has a few very large customers, including Disney, ESPN, and BarkBox.
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