Pictured above: Danielle Cochrane of Cloud Net and Fiona Davies from WiRE

WiRE (Women in Rural Enterprise), are part of a new national initiative to get rural business women talking to each other for free.  The initiative aims to encourage WiRE members, including the businesswomen who meet monthly in across the country from Yorkshire to Cambridgeshire, to share their ideas, knowledge and expertise to ultimately grow their businesses.

To help rural businesswomen who run start-up or small businesses, WiRE has decided to work with a cutting-edge small business telephone system from Cloud Net, a company based on Green Lane in Walsall.  Cloud Net's small business phone system uses the internet to enable free and low cost calls so that rural businesswomen can speak to likeminded female entrepreneurs throughout the WiRE network, while saving money and projecting a professional image. 

"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 and Cloud Net's small business telephone system fits the bill, said Fiona Davies, WiRE Business Manager. 

"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 VoIP (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 which now include Cloud Net's telephone system.  Local WiRE networks help members keep up to date on all the latest news  whilst improving their skills and doing business.

Chairman of CloudNet, David Hill, commented, "It's great to see best practice organisations  like WiRE investing in technological advances to give themselves an invaluable competitive edge. Companies want a contact number for life wherever they are based, lower costs and the ability to operate with as many people or branches as they want, without considerable costs. This is where our leading telecoms really helps!"

Those wishing to find out more about the many benefits, features and functions of the Cloud Net system can simply visit www.cloudnetuk.com for more details.