Except, some providers offer even longer contracts for fatter discounts but increase the minimum commitment length. Here’s where things can get ugly, especially if you end up contracting with a virtual phone that you end up unsatisfied with down the length.
There’s also a third option here: a business phone solution that doesn’t bind you to a long-term contract but also doesn’t offer a free trial. You’ll want to divvy up money for a paid test month.
How Much Does it Cost to Use Close as Your Business Phone?
Although we nearly covered every factor impacting your business phone costs, there’s still one, rather unquantifiable factor: limited or poor CRM connectivity.
Meaning, a lagging relationship between your CRM and virtual calling software can quickly add up costs in lost productivity—even lost deals. This often happens as you:
Spend an inordinate amount of time trying to track malaysia telegram data information on the lead you’re on call with
Are unable to trace that specific info bite that would’ve impressed the person you’re speaking with and helped close the deal
Ask customers to repeat themselves for the third time after they’ve already shared their case with two members of your team before you
In fact, here at Close—long before we built business phone into our CRM— we struggled with all this and more: lost call context, disjointed workflows, an unhealthy amount of tab switching, and way more time spent creating workarounds than closing deals.
But since moving to calling from our CRM (yes, we’re our customers too!), we’ve long said goodbye to these challenges.
Makes call routing using lead data from your CRM a breeze
Centralizes all call context in one place (since you’ll be calling from inside your CRM)
Automatically logs all incoming and outgoing calls in your CRM (no manual work needed)
The team at TRU Colors even doubled their call rate by simplifying their stack: