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4. Trusting your cellular phone management to your provider.
WHILE CELLULAR SERVICE providers may tout their ability to manage their customer's accounts, they are more interested in their profits than in saving customers money. An outside, impartial cellular management company can assess cellular programs and make recommendations that may include switching to another cellular provider with a better deal or, more often, help lower costs by negotiating with the current provider.
5. Trying to manage your cellular program yourself.
VERY FEW COMPANIES have the time or expertise to understand their cellular phone program. Most companies are continually losing money on their cellular bills and wasting valuable staff time at the expense of the company's core business activities. Outsourcing the company's cellular phone management can have a noticeable impact on a company's bottom line by reducing operating costs and increasing profits.
Just as with cellular phone providers, be sure to check for a reputable cellular phone management company. The firm should be able to determine the condition of a cellular program by reviewing at least one month's cellular bill or bills. After completing the review, the firm should be able to show how much money it can save your company and how it can increase your company's cellular phone efficiency. Also, the firm should be capable of presenting ongoing management programs tailored to your specific needs.
Cellular management firms may offer their services on a contingency basis, at a flat fee, or a combination of both. Some management companies take a percentage of money saved off the old cellular bills for the first couple of months of the contract, then set a flat fee for monthly management programs. Be sure to ask for the terms and fees to project savings in real costs as well as staff time.
Outsourcing a company's cellular phone management can prove to be a major time and cost saving decision. It can become a routine function for many organizations that rely on cellular technology for their business and for their profits.
Author Paul Jennings, CEO and founder of Public Communications Services, is recognized as a leader in the telecommunications industry. The company has launched Cellular Management Services, a new cellular telephone management service for companies with greater than 50 cell phones that want to achieve the most cost effective and efficient use of their phones. For more information, visit www.teampcs.com.
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