Business means communication. Communication with your clients, your suppliers, your bankers and, most importantly with your own employees and colleagues who are more often than not out of the office sealing business deals or fulfilling business commitments hundreds of miles away from the corporate headquarters.All this means continuous communication involving follow up with all the constituents of the business environment ?both internal and external.This also means a substantial amount of your hard earned revenue going to the telecom provider of the long distance communication service. So, the amount spent in commercial long distance communication needs to be very carefully monitored and evaluated to ensure that every dollar is utilized in the most efficient manner.In order to achieve the maximum efficiency for the dollars spent on communication, certain well planned steps should be taken.

First go through the last six months?billing details to find out how many minutes on an average have you spent on making long distance calls. The last six months should be a fair measure of your monthly long distance telephony. This is a long enough period to take of any seasonal fluctuations your business may experience during the course of a financial year.The next step would be to break up this amount in the areas or zones you have most frequently called up. This is obviously known to you, because area-wise communication is generally directly proportional to the geographical concentration of the business.A detox program, in most cases shall include a mental shift in attitude towards diet, improving nutrition, removing toxins, returning the desired flora in your internal system, maintaining a balanced pH level in the body and improving the overall mind and body relationship.This analysis would also help you to confirm no disproportionate use of your telephone line is taking place.Then get down to find out the average length of a telephone call made during this period.

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