Over the last two months about 80% of my brain was dedicated (still is) to designing a new office for the company. I got to create the budget, help pick out the commercial space to rent, and figure out everything from, computers, to white boards, to phones.
The budget was quickly and painlessly approved in full, and we start purchasing soon. It will be awesome. The next few blog posts will cover some of the neat ideas that we figured out to cut costs or stuff thats just generally really cool and I'm excited about it.
first up. Phones.
Phones are expensive. Duh. But for a small office they are even worse. The SOHO office market is not one most phone companies cater to very well. So I found these babies.
Each desk will have one of these phones, liked with Skype on an unlimited US calling plan for about $30 a month. The phone costs about $50. Our whole phone infrastructure using these phones and Skype will be about $1000-1500 up front, and a few hundred dollars a year.
Comparable service from a major phone carrier would be about $10,000 up front and close to $500+ per year plus per minute usage. Ugh. The best part about skype is that your office phone number will seamlessly follow you. Plug in at the coffee shop down the street with this handset? You get all your calls and voicemail. Don't want your laptop for lunch? Thats why we bought a few of these----->We scoped out coffee shops and places to eat around the office, and enough had free wi-fi to justify grabbing a few Skype enabled portable phones. Just login, and all your contacts, and voice mail route directly to the phone.
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