{"id":11195,"date":"2014-07-28T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3128813"},"modified":"2014-07-28T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:25:00","slug":"reducing-growing-pains-with-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/reducing-growing-pains-with-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Growing Pains with the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that small businesses have things easy because fewer employees means a smaller and easier team to manage. In fact, there are a lot of challenges that are unique to small businesses, and one of the big ones if &#8220;growing pains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult for a business owner to lock themselves into contracts, whether it&#8217;s a lease on an office building or a contract with an internet provider, because it&#8217;s sometimes impossible to predict how quickly the business will grow and whether these existing arrangements can sustain a larger team. At least, that was true until the cloud came along.<br \/>\nSmall business owners that have unexpected success will more than likely have to withstand some stressful aspects of business growth, but cloud-based phone systems at least take away some of the stress and allow you to focus on the more exciting aspects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3128813\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that small businesses have things easy because fewer employees means a smaller and easier team to manage. In fact, there are a lot of challenges that are unique to small businesses, and one of the big ones if &#8220;growing pains.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s diff&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}