Category: Business

  • Solution sharing: My small business phone system, 4 lines, 6 extensions, and costs less than £10 per month

    plus call costs of about 1p/minute Short version: Get SIP trunks from Dial9.co.uk**, get a small Virtual Machine running at DigitalOcean*, install IncrediblePBX, connect to your own phones. Where we start from: BT Openreach are turning off analog copper phone lines and moving everyone to an all IP (Internet Protocol) system. It’s called SOGeA (Single…

  • Printers, running costs and life expectancy

    Our main A4 colour printer just reached the end of it’s life and is not worth repairing so I turned to my spreadsheet of printer costs to work out what to replace it with. We buy the printers and don’t lease them as this has always been a lot cheaper in the long term. This…

  • Setting up Google Workspace for a small business – part 8

    Telling everyone about our new email address It’s been about 2 weeks and everything is working well. We’ve told a few people about our new email addresses but now I need to get organised and tell everyone, but how? Option 1 – Email everyone in my address book Google keeps 2 address books by default.…