A CUTTING-EDGE internet phone system is set to get businesswomen talking.
Networking organisation Women in Rural Enterprise – which has a group covering the Huddersfield and Halifax areas – is now part of a new national initiative to enable WiRE members to talk to each other for free and share their ideas, knowledge and expertise.
WiRE is working with a cutting-edge small business telephone system from Cloud Net, which uses the internet to enable free and low cost calls so that rural businesswomen can speak to like-minded female entrepreneurs throughout the WiRE network.
WiRE business manager Fiona Davies said: “We wanted to offer our members access to green, cost-effective and reliable telephone system that would perform like that of a large company’s while keeping the local and friendly ethos of WiRE.
“In addition, Cloud Net’s free calls within its network, free phones that we can use in the office or at home and free set-up means we can increase networking between our members and they can plough the cost savings back into their businesses.”
For a fixed fee of £8.50 a month, WiRE members receive unlimited free phone calls within the WiRE community or to other Cloud Net system users. The Cloud Net system also gives WiRE members all the features of a professional business switchboard and free telephone handsets.
The telephone system, is based on Voice over Internet Protocol and gives local women-owned businesses important features such as call forwarding, voicemail sent to your email inbox, conferencing, call recording and cheap international calls. WiRE members only pay for calls made outside the WiRE and Cloud Net network and international calls.
WiRE supports some 2,000 women in rural business by offering members a package of practical business services. Its local networks help members keep up to date on all the latest news while improving their skills and doing business.Go to www.wireuk.org/networks
