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Bill Pay & Cost Allocation

Sep 9, 2015

A seemingly endless amount of invoices arrive at your office every month. Thousands of line items within a complex telecom environment, and expenses that are spiraling out of control. Who is responsible for paying which invoice, and how will these expenses be split amongst the departments? Does this sound familiar? Here’s a quick thought. What might be missing from your telecom processes is cost allocation and bill pay. Add efficiency and transparency to your cost with these managed telecom services, now offered by Valicom.

TEM Service Spotlight: Telcom Bill Pay

Aug 31, 2015

Telecom bill pay is a time-consuming process, that when handled wrong – can end up costing your organization even more. If you misapply a payment, or miss a deadline – you’ll be slammed with late fees. Avoid these costs (both time and resources) with automatic bill pay, a telecom expense management service offered by Valicom

Top TEM Outsourced Services

Aug 24, 2015

Are you considering outsourcing your telecom expense management? You are not alone. More and more organizations are choosing to leave this tedious task to the experts and freeing up their internal resources for the things that they do best. The move is incredibly strategic, outsourcing TEM will help your business reducing overhead costs, while creating efficiency in your processes.

Partnering with Valicom: Key Resources

Aug 21, 2015

As a business consultant, you search carefully to find the right partners when expanding your business. Ideally you choose a partner that adds to your strengths, and helps you overcome weaknesses. In an even better scenario, you choose a strategic partner – one who adds recurring revenue to your bottom line AND provides you with powerful tools to serve your clients.

Partnering with Valicom

Aug 19, 2015

Thinking of adding new services to your consulting portfolio? Telecom expense management might be a nice lateral move for your existing portfolio. Valicom prides itself in offering not only outstanding client service to its own customers, but to those of its Channel Partners and Consultants. We consider our partners as extensions of our own team, and understand that we all do better when we work together. Our partners can access support, training, and marketing collateral to drive success.

TEM Partners: White Labeling TEM Software

Aug 17, 2015

Help! Your clients are looking for a dedicated telecom tracking software tool. Years ago, you provided them a formulaic and complicated Excel sheet to compliment your telecom expense management and auditing services… But the Excel sheet just isn’t cutting it anymore. Where do you turn next?

Client Satisfaction: Our Highest Rating Yet!

Aug 14, 2015

Our team is so pleased to announce that we have received some of the greatest client satisfaction ratings to-date. Quarter two of 2015 brings us to higher levels!

New TEMIA Whitepaper: Calculating the ROI of Telecom Cost Control

Aug 13, 2015

In partnership with TEMIA, Valicom releases ‘TEM, WEM and MMS: Calculating the ROI of Telecom Cost Control‘. The white paper discusses building the business case and cost justification for TEM, WEM and MMS programs within your organization. The resource discusses how these initiatives can be harness to free up budget within your squeezed IT and operation budgets.

The Proactive Approach: Controlling Telecom Costs

Aug 5, 2015

Telecom costs are often responsible for a business’ largest operating expense, and yet so frequently, they go completely unmanaged. Does this sound familiar? Take the first simple steps to controlling telecom costs by accessing Valicom’s newest white paper, “The Proactive Approach: Controlling Telecom Costs”. This white paper outlines initial questions organizations need to consider to achieve proactive management of telecom costs.

Do I need a dedicated Telecom Manager?

Aug 3, 2015

This blog post was purposely written to have more questions than answers… but I guarantee these questions stir a discussion and fuel a desire to make improvements. So often we see unqualified teams managing hundreds of thousands of dollars of telecom spend. To these Finance or IT teams, telecom expense management is just an after-thought. The tedious task is just an additional piece of work on-top of their over-flowing plate of duties.

The Benefits of Telecom Bill Check & Audit Services

Jul 30, 2015

Here’s a quick gut-check scenario. A telecom invoice arrives in the mail… it’s 1,000 pages long, and includes a large and complex environment of both wireline and wireless devices. What happens next? Is this invoice reviewed line by line? Or is it just paid – without review or further scrutiny?

TEM for Energy: Key Benefits

Jul 27, 2015

This month has been all about energy, and we’re practically buzzing from excitement. Why? Because we’ve seen TEM have a big impact specifically within the energy vertical. Did you catch our energy resources? See our latest case study (*Spolier Alert* we saved one client $700K – read the full story here) and our latest Q&A session with Joe, listen to that here.

Telecom Contract Negotiation for the Rest of Us

Jul 22, 2015

Don’t leave money on the table. Negotiating telecom contracts is supercharged with a TEM firm.As a business owner, you want the best for your company… while also keeping extra expenses at a minimum. Maybe the do-it-yourself approach has worked for you in the past. But last year you let your wireline contracts expire and they auto renewed, at a different (and higher) rate. Whoops!

TEM for Energy: Q&A Podcast

Jul 20, 2015

Energy companies tend to have a wide variety of services spread out over many different locations and vendors throughout their service area. Often Energy companies have hundreds of substations in rural areas from more ‘Mom & Pop’ type telephone companies instead of just having 2-3 ‘core’ vendors.

Wireless Device Management: Lowers Expenses, Increases Profits

Jul 13, 2015

The use of mobile technology allows employees and customers to be connected to the company from just about anywhere in the world. Mobile devices including smartphones, laptops, and tablets are a vital resource tools for every aspect of business from the c-suite, to sales teams, marketers, and customer service.

Telecom Inventory is Vital for Success

Jul 8, 2015

When most individuals consider inventory in a company, they think about the amount of goods to be sold at any particular time. ‘Inventory’ has many distinct areas within a business. Every part of a company is considered to be inventory item in one form or another, including the tools we use to conduct business day to day. This includes items within your telecom environment, phones on desks, data circuits, and most importantly and volatile…wireless devices and smartphones.

The Bountiful Benefits of A Telecom Audit

Jul 6, 2015

When it comes to telecom audits – we have seen a major shift within the last year. It seems more and more businesses are attempting to wrap their arms around their telecom inventories and spend. All companies from small individual ownerships to large corporation are looking for areas to cut costs in every aspect of business. Telecommunications can be a large but absolutely necessary expense.

New White Paper – TEM for Healthcare: The Cure for IT Budgets

Jul 2, 2015

The next service that will ease some serious telecom pain is invoice processing. The mid to large size healthcare organizations are receiving upwards of 400 telecom invoices annually, and yet only 70% of IT manager have an accurate inventory of their telecom environment.

Tip to Help Manage Telecom Costs

Jun 29, 2015

Building a business is tough. Maintaining and growing that same business is exponentially more difficult. Hiring the right people, navigating the competitive environment, paying bills… and just generally making sure things work. There’s so many things to keep track of, and make sure run smoothly and accurately.

Telecom Spend: The Proactive Approach

Jun 24, 2015

How can I reduce my telecom spend? That moment you open up a telecom invoice, and see exactly what is due next month. Your telecom spend is out of control – and you don’t quite know how to get it back in order, or where you even went wrong. Your staff has the devices they need, and the contracts were painstakingly reviewed and negotiated by your team

TEM Software: Clearview for Telecom Expense Management

Jun 22, 2015

When Excel just isn’t cutting it anymore, it may be time to turn to a proper TEM software. A tool built just for telecom expense management, that has the key functionality you need for cost allocation, invoice approval, and contract management.