Here at Linkup we appreciate how important your mobiles are to your business, from making sure you and your staff are remotely contactable at any time of day to running the business from out of the office.
We are always competitive with our phone and data quotes whether you’re looking for the whole package or just a sim only deal, everything about us is tailored to suit your business.
‘Personal’ and ‘business’ are very different fields, which require mutually exclusive approaches. Any business start-up owner or colleague in a new role is eager to spread his/her contacts as widely as possible, ultimately giving their details out like sweets. The result is that your personal number, which you have protected carefully and only given to people you trust, is now public property. A call from a number you don’t recognise? Well, you can’t ignore those anymore. What if they’re a lead, or a customer? And how do you answer the call? With your personal greeting or your business one? When you go home and are ready to unwind, the last thing you want is to receive an email that completely changes your mood. With two phones, you can put the job away by switching off the work phone, giving you a sense of control over what to do with YOUR time.
One of the core ideas behind a business mobile is preserving privacy without compromising accessibility.
Sometimes an aspiring entrepreneur thinks: “My personal number will do for now. I’ll come up with something more professional later.”
When time comes to scale-up or step-up your business – such as adding more lines, activating an answer machine or call-back service, or employing call forwarding – an entrepreneur may find out that his/her consumer mobile carrier can’t offer the desired additional functionality. And once a business is evolving, changing a fundamental line of communication such as a main contact number can create a number of challenges, anything from upset customers or suppliers to reprinting all of your stationery. It’s far easier to make this decision before a business is established.
Protecting other people’s data is now a fundamental responsibility for any business, and every employee at a business. Failing to do so can cause any number of problems, the least being a breakdown of trust between customers, suppliers and your business. Business accounts aren’t inherently more secure than personal ones but separating personal data and behaviours from business data and behaviours is essential when it comes to data protection.
By providing mobiles to your employees you have the choice of what network/carrier to use and the operating system that best fits your companies needs. You might want to decide to go with Apple iOS, Google or Android but whatever you choose if you keep the operating system’s consistent you’ll know that all your employees should have access to the same software and features.
If you’re reimbursing employees for business use of their personal phones, you could be covering the cost of multiple individual rate plans. You’re more than likely to pay a significantly lower rate per phone if you have a business account for multiple lines with a single provider.
If your employees rely on personal phone numbers for dealing with customers, you willingly give up control over a certain part of your business. To plan for the future, it’s important to keep track of all business processes within your company, such as logistics, sales and customer service. When clients interact with your company through employees’ personal numbers, you don’t know how often your employees speak to your customers, how they handle conversations and which questions they have trouble answering. Worst case scenario: when an employee who has been using their own phone leaves your company, your customers or suppliers could leave with them. By giving your employees business mobiles you instantly gain more control as you’ll be able to monitor the way those phones are used. With a business contract you can monitor the use of voice, texts and data, place limits on overspend, add bolt-ons.
LinkUp have helped companies of all sizes slash their communication bills.
Our team can offer advice to help identify the most suitable tariffs and propose a bespoke solution for your business.
We offer a flexible range of contracts and tenures including SIM Only, Mobile Broadband and tablet options.
