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Businesses that have implemented broadband services consistently report increased sales, greater cost savings, improved productivity, and a happier workforce – all leading to a healthier bottom line. |
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Broadband business users are able to participate in real-time contract tenders, manage stock movement across the supply chain, utilise foreign currency exchange and trading services and receive detailed mutlimedia presentations using sound, video and animation. They are also able to sell, distribute and manage goods and services online using secure e-commerce tools – all this direct to the customer. |
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Using broadband in business helps you nurture real e-relationships and develop your business to meet the demands of the 21st century. |
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Always open |
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|  | A network of computers can share a single broadband connection. Your whole office could be online, using broadband web services for one flat monthly payment. |
| | Make and take voice calls as normal even when you are online – avoid potentially damaging engaged tones for your customers and suppliers. |
| | Business downloads can be up to 40 times the speed you can get via a standard telephone connection. |
| | UKOnline for Business reported that on average each employee wastes 30 minutes per day waiting for information using a dial up connection - that's 125 man hours per year. |
| | With broadband, when you're switched on, you're always online, with virtually instant access to any information or service. |
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A worldwide profile |
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Building, maintaining and growing your own website presents an opportunity to: |
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| | Foster customer relationships, providing a 24 hour service or reference point for existing and potential customers. |
| | Market yourself as broadly or as selectively as you wish – reach and be accessible to the right customer whoever they are and wherever they come from. |
| | Sell, distribute and manage goods online. |
| | Track users and activity on your site. |
| | Gather and process useful information about your existing and potential customers. |
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Better web services |
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| | Online business research, planning and marketing is made so much easier using broadband. You can quickly identify who and where potential customer bases are and how to target and market to them. |
| | Using broadband for research will help to increase your sales leads. You can plan in advance because you can see where your customers are now, so you'll also have an idea where they might be in the future. |
| | Efficient business web services generally mean a more efficient and happier workforce, in turn leading to all manner of physical, cost and productivity savings. |
| | Pay only one fixed monthly fee. Stay online as long as you like, when you like. Simple. |
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If you are a larger organisation or corporation |
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Broadband offers high speed services to meet the needs of larger companies, corporations and other organisations in both public and private sectors. With broadband, large organisations can: |
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| | Take full advantage of broadband's always on, high speed access capabilities, saving time and effort downloading and transferring large digital files. |
| | Take your goods and services online and into a global marketplace. |
| | Offer new services such as online ordering, account management and electronic payments to your customers, employees and suppliers. |
| | Extend your internal networks and email systems to encompass remote offices, teleworkers and home workers. |
| | Tailor the bandwidth that employees can use to suit specific project critical needs. |
| | Get better performance and value from existing systems and software. |
| | Predict and manage costs effectively. |
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To see who could supply your business with up to the minute services take a look at the suppliers guide. |
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