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Starting a new business on a budget? Our tips for Telecoms, Marketing and IT set up.

As unemployment levels rise, and with  many more people facing redundancy each day, The attraction of starting your own business has become stronger and stronger.

In 2013 a staggering 523,410 new companies started business in the UK. Today alone  (24^th January 2014)  a mind-boggling 2650* have registered their new business. Are you thinking of doing the same? Are you overwhelmed by the communications and set-up options out there?  Here’s our advice on how to set-up your Telecoms, IT and Marketing operations.

 Telecoms- When you are just starting out, you don’t want the expense of a receptionist and studies have shown that having just a mobile number may not inspire enough confidence in customers to call.

 VoIP provides a cost effective solution to this. By using this internet based phone service  you can create a virtual phone system that allows you to maintain flexibility and be mobile, whilst still providing a UK landline number that customers can always call.

One of the main advantages of Business VoIP systems  is being able to receive calls on your landline number regardless of location. This means that several people working in different locations can have calls routed to them using the same number. Business VoIP is often more cost effective with minimal hardware costs and low rental. Clyde Solutions offers VoIP on a per user fixed monthly fee.

 IT- You may wish to consider the benefits of domain hosting. Hosted Exchange is perfect for ensuring your business's emails, contacts and calendars are fully synced and managed, providing an efficient platform for all employees to work from. Our powerful Hosted Exchange 2010 technology is the ultimate Exchange hosting solution suitable for all business sizes, both large and small.  Clyde Solutions can offer  full-featured Hosted Exchange which includes: 25GB per mailbox, synced calendars and contacts,  Full Outlook integration and anti- spam/anti-virus software. Perfect for

Marketing- Now you’re a proud Business owner, you’ll need to think about letting people know about our products and services. Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.** A good way to start advertising for a little outlay as possible to make use of Social Media as much as possible. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are ideal for B2C companies, and LinkedIn and Pinterest are more suited to B2B companies.

Once you’ve made some money , it’s best to invest in wisely in a website, having a presence online is imperative for any business. You must also ensure that your website is SEO compliant as this can help your business to appear higher up the search engines results. When putting together a website you need to decide on keywords which you can implement as you create your site. By including these in the relevant places you will automatically begin to move up the rankings when people search for terms that are included in your keywords.

Still thinking of taking the plunge? For more information about how Clyde Solutions can benefit your start-up business please contact us.