Business decisions are no longer made in a vacuum and often involve multiple stakeholders. In fact, according to recent statistics from CEB (a Gartner subsidiary), the average number of customer stakeholders involved in a B2B purchasing decision is 6.8 — up from 5.4 in late 2014. Arriving at a consensus and moving forward among a… Continue reading UCaaS Solutions that Finance, IT, And Office Managers Embrace
Cloud computing has completely transformed the way businesses operate. According to LogicMonitor’s Cloud Vision 2020: The Future of the Cloud Study, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. Despite the many benefits cloud computing has to offer, there are still many businesses that hesitate to make the switch to the cloud for many reasons, including security concerns. … Continue reading 3 Ways Cloud Computing Can Actually Protect Your Business
Buyer beware: Not all telecommunications pricing is created equally. Many providers charge between 20 to 40 percent more on top of their listed price in fees and other hidden charges. Let’s assume you are shopping for business communications services from various providers; traditional telecommunications companies, VoIP, and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) providers.… Continue reading Exposing Hidden Fees With Business Telecommunications Service
Every company has a story, the backdrop of how it was founded, started, or evolved over time to become what it is today. Often the origins tell of humble beginnings started out of someone’s garage; Level365 is no different. Rather than a garage, it was a small, cramped office meant ideally for one person. However,… Continue reading The Level365 Story: Our Why
We love Slack for improving internal communications. There we said it and we used the word love. Should we take it back? It’s too late now. Is it perfect? No, but it helps our teams communicate. It allows people, projects, and tasks to move forward. It works well and it works for us. 5 Reasons… Continue reading Improving Internal Communications with Slack
When making decisions about business services and technology, many business owners make the mistake of focusing only on the bottom-line expense. There can be other hidden costs of poor service in many forms. This includes the time it takes your staff to get support and fix issues if the service doesn’t work reliably. While… Continue reading The Hidden Cost of Poor Service
We all have business tools we use at work. Most of the time, you can break them down into two categories: (1) those we like and (2) the rest we deal with. Some are awesome, and others that we would just rather forget about. The ones that haunt you at night or make you pound your head… Continue reading 5 Business Tools We Couldn’t Live Without
In honor of D-Day and the greatest generation, I wanted to share an excerpt from the book, Beyond Band of Brothers by Major Dick Winters. Much of his advice came from his experience in combat during WWII leading Easy Company at the Normandy invasion and much of that experience helped him in his success later… Continue reading (Startup) Leadership at the Point of the Bayonet – Major Dick Winters
