As a freelancer, the VoIP phone system is a great, affordable, dynamic, communication system. Since your main domain is the internet and you most likely have a good internet connection, you can benefit from VoiP’s wide range of brilliant features to propel your freelance business to new levels of success.
What is VoIP and How Does it Work?
Voip stands for Voice Over Internet protocol. It is a communication system that uses your internet connection to make and receive phone calls, as opposed to traditional phone systems that use hardwired landlines and extensions.
On the more technical side, a VoIP phone takes the audio signals from our voices and turns it into packets of data that gets transmitted over a data network.
What are the Benefits of VoIP for Freelancers?
In our opinion, A VoIP mobile phone was made for freelancers. It is an absolutely fantastic asset for any freelance professionals. Let’s take a deeper look at the benefits that you can enjoy when working on a freelance basis.
A Cost-Effective Cloud-Based Phone to Match Your Needs
Since most freelancers practically live online, it makes perfect sense to get an internet based phone system. It allows you to make many low cost, high-quality calls every month.
Paying for phone calls every month from conventional phone systems can be quite pricy. It can definitely become very limiting to your business growth. With a VoIP phone system’s affordability, you get to remove these limitations and grow your business at a much faster pace.
Save Money
A VoIP phone enables you to save a lot of money that can be invested in more important areas of your freelancing business, including product development, labour, and advertising.
More Money
With the freedom to make as many calls as you need, you can prospect and qualify a lot more leads and achieve more conversions than if you were using a traditional phone.
How Much Does VoIP Cost?
It really depends on the VoIP provider you use and the number of features you need. At bOnline, our pricing and associated packages are as follows:
The Starter: £6.oo +VAT Monthly Per User
What’s Included?
- 100 outbound landline minutes
- Digital phone line and number
- Unlimited inbound calls
The Features:
- Mobile and desktop apps
- Call forwarding
- 40 more features
Unlimited Calling: £13.95 +VAT Monthly Per User
What’s Included?
- Digital phone line and number
- Unlimited inbound calls
- Unlimited UK landline and mobile calls
The Features:
- Mobile and desktop apps
- On-demand call recording
- Call Forwarding
- 1-1 HD video meetings
- 45 more features
Unlimited Calling With Desktop Phone: £15.50 +VAT Monthly Per User
What’s Included?
- Digital phone line and number
- Unlimited inbound calls
- Unlimited UK landline and mobile calls
The Features:
- Mobile and desktop apps
- On-demand call recording
- Call Forwarding
- 1-1 HD video meetings
- 45 more features
Flexibility
A VoIP mobile phone gives you plenty of flexibility in terms of accessibility of location and a wide variety of devices to access it from. You can use the VoIP phone system no matter where you are working from. You’re also able to use more than one device to make phone calls, including your laptop, cellphone, or a desktop phone.
Virtual Number
When you’re a freelancer and working from home, it can be a bit hard to establish yourself as a legitimate business and get taken seriously when you do not have a business area.
VoIP’s virtual numbers give you a business area that legitimises your presence and reputability.
Easy To Use
A VoiP phone system is incredibly easy to set up and use, no matter how many team members you may have. As your business grows, it’s also very simple to adjust in terms of how many users you have at your company.
Various Communication Features
A VoIP mobile phone grants you a simplistic means to access various communication features, including chat messaging and video calling. This would allow you to save time and grow your business quicker when you have access to all types of communication from one place.
Enhance Productivity
You can propel your productivity as a freelancer to new heights with VoIP. The call-recording feature can be used to analyse your phone calls with clients and allow you to develop ways to improve your performance.
The video-calling feature enables you to have important meetings where you can gain crucial feedback from team members and host vital meetings with clients.
How To Setup a VoIP Phone at Home?
Firstly, you’ll have to look at getting the right equipment. Going the softphone route? Great, no equipment needed. On the other hand, if you’re able and willing to get VoIP hardware, you’ll have to buy an IP phone.
Have a look at bOnline’s fantastic range of cost-effective, easy-to-use VoIP compatible phones and headsets.
If you’re going with the softphone option, you simply need to go through a few simple steps to install and configure your VoIP mobile phone.
How do Freelancers Choose the Best VoIP Provider in the UK?
When selecting your VoIP provider, making a choice from all of the available VoIP providers in the UK can be quite daunting. However, you can make your selection easier by keeping a few factors in mind, including your budget, nature of your business and the features you need.
Your Budget
If you have a gracious budget, then you’re in a great position to choose a more helpful option. We understand that most freelancers might not have the biggest of budgets, this is why you might want to consider VoIP providers that cater to smaller businesses.
At bOnline, we tailor our services to the smaller businesses and freelancers so that you can access high-quality calls and features that can allow you to compete with larger companies.
The Nature of Your Business
Your nature of business will inevitably play a big factor in your decision. If you’re in a business where you have to make plenty of calls and have many team members, you might want to choose a VoIP provider that specialises in providing a high-volume of calls and has features that are beneficial to teams.
If you’re in a business where calls are not that frequent and you work on your own, you could consider going with a provider that offers packages in line with this. Our “Starter Package” is great for this. Here’s a reminder of what you can expect:
The Starter: £6.oo +VAT Monthly Per User
What’s Included?
- 100 outbound landline minutes
- Digital phone line and number
- Unlimited inbound calls
The Features:
- Mobile and desktop apps
- Call forwarding
- 40 more features
Try a Free Trial
Not sure if a VoIP phone system is right for you? No problem at all. Before committing to it, you could try a 7 day free trial along with free, no obligation demos to businesses in the UK.
Our contact details are as follows:
Mobile Number: 020 3697 4166
