4 Reasons SIP is Sexy for Small Business

SIP based communication services are changing the world. If you haven't experienced the revolution yet you will, here's why.

1)It allows you to elegantly juggle how you want to respond to incoming calls. On the phone with an important customer but see a vital call from an employee about to go to sleep in Germany? With a SIP based solution you can re-direct the incoming call to an enterprise IM response and save it from ever going to voice mail. Now your closing the deal and ensuring the product will be available seamlessly.

2)It's anywhere you are. Many people are still tied to a physical phone location. Are you still changing your voice-mail while you are traveling to direct customers to your cell phone? With SIP you will never send your important customer looking for pen and paper again--your number will find you wherever you are, on whatever phone you input.

3)It does everything a million dollar PBX solution used to do. Want to dial shorter interoffice extensions? Want a fancy attendant menu when people call your business? SIP can do it, digitally at a fraction of the costs. Do you have more than one employee filling a similar role? Use the hunt group function to ring each of their lines in succession instead of sending a valuable customer to voicemail.

4)Data, data, data. How long does it take for incoming calls to be picked up by the sales department? Who answers the most incoming sales calls? Which customers are calling the service department the most. Because SIP solutions are all digital data is readily available. Great managers have great metrics; which new ones can you create with SIP at the core of our communications?

If better, faster, cheaper, more transparent, slicker; and downright cooler sound sexy to you check out SIP.