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It's your money; why 'give it away' unnecessarily?

Being in the Loop really could save your business money - and we all want to save money no matter what economic climate we're in. Credit crunch. Recession. Boom time or bust. Saving money is always a priority.

Getting in The Loop could help your business to reduce or even eliminate unnecessary travelling, saving money on business call costs, fuel costs, the fully expensed company car, meals and accomodation.

Call costs. Imagine not having to make so many telephone calls, including those costly overseas calls, when you can just log into The Loop and chat for as long as you like online with no additional cost whatsoever.
In the Loop, you can use instant messaging or 'live chat' which is private, secure – and no-one can hear what you are saying to the person you are chatting with, which could be handy if you're in an open plan office discussing financial or confidential matters.
 The company-expensed mobile phones many employees may currently accept or take for granted without due gratitude when they are phoning or sending text messages to friends as well as using the phone for business, viewing it as an accepted ‘benefit in kind’, could even become a cost no longer absorbed by employers using The Loop for business communications.
 
Business meetings. By using webcams, you could be having ‘face to face’ meetings, affording you the option of reducing the amount of travelling you do – perhaps even to and from your office everyday if you have all the equipment you need at home. Imagine the savings your business could make there.
Company vehicles. f you factor in the cost of a company vehicle, which again often lends itself to being as much as a ‘perk of the job’ as it is often necessary, then being in the Loop could at least be considered as a means of helping to reduce these costs.
The cost of buying or leasing, taxing and insuring, along with fuelling and maintaining company vehicles always seems to increase, without any alternative to lower or even eliminate the expense, but taking time out to think about it could just be the start of finding ways to save money.
Of course, we are not suggesting that you take away the fully expensed mode of transport you or your people rely on as part of their ‘package’, but we may be planting the thought that its necessity as an everyday expense your business carries is re-evaluated.
Business travel. Perhaps you might like to consider the Loop as a cost-effective supplement or alternative that could help reduce the number of journey’s, meetings and fuel bills that eat into expense accounts (not to mention the ‘entertaining’ expenses that could be cut back on if more meetings were held online). It is, after all, just a thought.
Networking. We also know that sourcing, developing and maintaining relationships are key factors in sustaining a viable business. Meeting people and encountering potential new business contacts at networking events has long been a favoured source of relationship building, but not everyone can afford the time or costs to attend every monthly business breakfasts, lunches and dinner events that seem to be on the increase.
For people who do attend networking events, the subsequent nurturing of new business relationships can result in additional costs, which is where we again see the Loop as a very useful buffer for those tentative times between meeting for the first time and actually doing business together. After all, if internet dating is so popular and globally successful, why shouldn’t there also be an outlet for business relationships to flourish online?
If you are one of those people who would like to be able to get to more networking events but have neither the time nor resources to do so, then the Loop could turn out to be an invaluable option for finding new ways of meeting and maintaining new business contacts.

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