UPCOMING LIVE TRAINING – Grab the keys to unlocking critical savings in your telecom budget. Valicom’s upcoming ‘Unlock Savings: Finding Telecom Inefficiencies’ webinar will shed light on some of the most commonly overlooked opportunities for savings in telecom management. We’ll cover improvements in financial, technological, and operational processes, for recouping time and resources in telecom expenses.
Last week Apple announced the highly anticipated iPhone 6. The device is available in two sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches. Apple received more the four million orders of the new phone in just 24 hours, compared to the iPhone 5, which sold just 2 million units at its release in 2012.
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.
Managing your telecom expenses and inventory can become overwhelming, especially if you are managing hundreds of thousands of dollars of telecom spend each year.Today we share five of our top telecom expense management resources this summer. Whether you’re new to telecom expense management, or just looking for a little assistance tracking inventory and expenses, Valicom can help.
Your clients trust you as their advisor, to recommend services and tools that will help save them time and money. They lean on you for expertise and efficiency, and to fill the gaps that they cannot manage internally.
It’s Monday again, which means it’s time for another TEM resources from our team! Today Nancy Peckham, CEO and Founder of Valicom, joins us for another video. Nancy discusses her entrepreneurial inspiration, and what market needs drove continuous innovation and...
With 2015 budgeting looming on the horizon, it’s time to take your expense management to the maximum. What did you spend in Quarters 1-3? Which cost centers monopolized your telecom budget, and which devices went unused?
At first glance telecom expense management (TEM) can seem like an absolute alphabet soup of acronyms and industry terms. One of the first steps to becoming a telecom expense management (TEM) expert, is being able to talk the talk.
It seems we’ve all moved to the cloud in the last 5 years. Whether it’s servers, data storage, software… you name it – we’ve put it up there. We’re all floating on cloud 9 with the functionality of cloud computing, but what exactly does it mean?
With 23 years of TEM know-how under our belts, we have racked up a success story or two. Sometimes it takes seeing a story to really understand exactly what we do for our clients. The following is an outline of a case study where, when faced with a $15M over expenditure, this hospitality client decided it was time to control their WAN inventory and costs.
Whether it’s something as simple as a baseball cap, or as complex as telecom expense management software – the truth is that ‘One Size’ often does not fit all.
A webinar we did not that long ago illustrates the main problem with telecom contract management and telecom contract negotiation. We asked how many attending firms went through the RFP and negotiation process when their telecom contracts were due for renewal. The answers were all over the board. However, only ONE said they did it “Every time”. I think we had one “Often”, but most said “Sometimes” or “Rarely”.
There are several excellent ways firms can save on their wireless expenses by contracting a wireless expense management firm or consultant to audit their environment. Valicom offers wireless mobility audits, in addition to our wireline services.
With the expanding complexity of telecom, there is an ever growing push to integrate cost allocation into expense management. Managers want to know who pays for telecom services and how much they pay, so that they can make intelligent decisions. IT and finance both want deeper visibility into what is driving costs, and hopefully, insight as to how the environment can be restructured to minimize the impact to the bottom line.
Happy Monday! Today we’re excited to share our latest white paper. The “Five Questions to Ask” white paper includes key tips and prompts to help your organization take control of your telecom expenses. If mobile devices and expensive data plans have invaded your team, or your wireline invoices are a tangled mess, we can help. Discover proper telecom management processes by asking yourself these five simple questions.
Is your firm eager to explore Mobile Data Pooling? Well, a word of caution before you make the plunge. As they say, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”, and many firms are finding that they don’t have reliable data on what their current wireless plans cost, let alone the assurance that they have optimized as much as possible.
In this video meet Nancy Peckham, Valicom’s founder and CEO. Nancy established the company in 1991, determined to serve those who had been taken advantage of during Bell System’s divestiture in 1984. With the vision for a vendor-independent adviser, Nancy built a dedicated telecom auditing team. Each team assists their clients in unwrapping and decoding the maze of monthly telecom invoices.
A telecom contract controls not only price, but terms and conditions, over a long period of time. Long distance rates, mobile data and minute pooling options, internet package pricing and device purchase costs all affect the bottom line. This means that getting the lowest cost, most flexible agreement possible is one of the very best ways to save money on telecom.
While we’re discussing mobile and wireless optimization, it’s a good time to revisit one of our more popular white papers – “Top 4 Tips to Manage Business Wireless Costs”.Recommended for anyone responsible for corporate wireless management, and seeking best practices in wireless expense reduction and cost control, get your copy from the telecom expense management white paper library.
Do you know how much time and resources your organization is spending each month to manage telecom expenses in-house? Where could those resources be better allocated, and who’s time can be freed to handle what they do best? Gaining better visibility and control of your telecom costs might be easier than you think. The cure might be outsourcing.
Good morning! It’s Monday again, and this week we have another Slideshare presentation for you. Are your telecom expenses a tangled mess? Who’s managing the invoices, contract negotiations, and billing? Streamline these telecom pieces, and save yourself a headache and a little cash.