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Free E-learning Solution for Schools with 3CX
3CX Extends Offer to Schools with Free E-learning Solution Posted on: March 19th, 2020 Up to 100 students and educators can now connect in a virtual classroom environment LONDON, UK, 19 MARCH 2020 – 3CX, developer of the award-winning business communications solution,...
How to work from home with your 3CX Phone System
With a 3CX phone system already in place, your business is already in a strong position to cope with the sudden demand for home working. It is a fairly easy process to be able to take calls from home and work as if you were sat at your extension in the office. ...
Work Remotely with Cost-free Web Conferencing
With the anticipated disruption caused by the outbreak of Coronavirus, 3CX have just released a free demo of their web meeting solution to help you with a sudden need to work remotely even if you don't have a 3CX Phone System! Whether you’re thinking of making...
Coronavirus and Business Continuity Planning
With the ever increasing likelihood that UK businesses will be experiencing severe disruption due to Coronavirus, the importance of business contingency planning is high on the agenda. Critical to keeping your business running as smoothly as possible during the...
From Local to Global; the rise of the Micro-National
Once upon a time, a global company was the domain of corporate giants. But thanks to communication technology, there’s a new kind of global business in town. All hail the rise of the Micro-National. Local business is great, it’s the backbone of our economy. But...
5 Ways To Improve Your Tech Health
As Solution Architect Keith Winhall points out, it’s not just personal resolutions that are important. Use the start of a New Year for an overhaul of your tech habits, and you will be on the way to a better tech-life balance in 2020. Here are Grapevine Connect’s top...
Head in the Cloud
Hands up if you’ve ever sent a fax? Keep your hands up if you still regularly do so…. I bet there aren’t many of you. Along with good old-fashioned phone calls (and yes, sometimes fax!), now it’s email, instant messaging, SMS, conference calling, video...
Why Innovation, Integrity and Imagination Matters
A quick look through our website and you’ll find our core value statement: “Grapevine Connect is based on three key ideas; Innovation, Integrity and Imagination.” But how does this translate in real life? First, we innovate through the continuous...
It Pays to Invest in Communication
It’s true that in business, people are your greatest asset and employees are frontline ambassadors for your brand. If you give them a helping hand by providing the right communication tools, you will reap the rewards of greater flexibility, easy...
Getting The Balance Right…
We are well and truly in the digital age. A revolution of communication. The way we work has radically changed, and technology is giving us more freedom to choose how and where we work. We are blessed to live here in the South West. Beautiful beaches,...
Energising Connectivity & Communications for Ixora
Faced with an outdated phone system, high connectivity costs and inaccessible infrastructure, Ixora Energy were looking to make radical changes to improve the way they communicated between their 8 sites across the UK. Read our case study to find out how...
Grapevine Connect WIN Comms Business Award!
The team here at Grapevine Connect are completely delighted, chuffed and over the moon to announce that we have been crowned winners of the SMB ICT Solution category at the 2019 Comms Business Awards.The award, which was presented at a...
Grapevine Connect Retains 3CX Platinum Partner Status
Yay.... we are proud as punch to have retained our 3CX Platinum Partner status! This prestigious accreditation is testament to our expertise in installing and maintaining 3CX Phone Systems, and we take great pride in joining an elite few other companies across the UK...
Grapevine Connect Shortlisted for Comms Business Award!
We are exceptionally proud to announce that Grapevine Connect has been shortlisted for the "SMB ICT Solution" Comms Business Award, in recognition of the innovative ways we deliver temporary and rapid internet connectivity. Now in its 15th year, the Comms Business...
Providing Van-tastic Internet Connectivity for Blue Cross Mobile Vet Clinic
Blue Cross is a charity that has been helping sick, injured, abandoned and homeless pets since 1897. They help thousands of pets in need every month, providing veterinary care, expert behaviour help and find them loving happy homes, as well as advice and education...
Peplink FusionHub: Benefits of Bandwidth Bonding & Session Persistence
Calling all Peplink users! We know that deploying a Peplink network is simple and easy using PepVPN, but have you inadvertently built in a single point of failure in your network? Or maybe you would love to use Peplink’s patented SpeedFusion service, but...
Hosted 3CX Phone System for Stunning Exmoor Hotel
What do you do when your phone system is out of date, constantly crashing and causing serious disruption to your business? This was the challenge faced by Olde World Inns at their beautiful Luttrell Arms Hotel in Exmoor. As we already provided their...
How to Improve Connectivity in Cornwall
We always enjoy engaging with new people at exhibitions, as it's good to listen to key business challenges and see how Grapevine can help to overcome them. At The Cornwall Business Show, one of the key issues we kept hearing was the lack of high speed...
Come and see us at the Cornwall Business Show!
The Cornwall Business Show is the largest, most inclusive business exhibition in Cornwall, bringing together a wide spectrum of industries and sectors, from small, start-up businesses to large, established companies. The show offers its audience a...
Protecting staff and business in adverse weather conditions
Like many businesses across the South West, we woke up this morning to a winter wonderland. Some of us at Grapevine could make it into work, and we had a pretty commute to the office. Other colleagues couldn't venture out due to being snowed in, or having emergency...
Refer us and save up to 20% on your next bill!
The best compliment we receive is a referral of our business, and we are lucky to have great customers who like what we do, and recommend us to other businesses. Introducing our refer-a-friend scheme….We want to say thank you for your part of our growth...
Overcoming Rural Internet Challenges
We love it when a customer asks us to overcome a connectivity challenge; our friends at Carpenter Oak, who create beautiful oak-framed buildings, certainly had a major rural internet issue... The problem they were constantly battling with was internet connectivity to...
South West Firm Choose Grapevine for International Telecoms
This month we installed a brand new telephone system for a customer with global reach, based in the South West; the culmination of nearly a year’s worth of meticulous system architecture design and planning. The updated infrastructure and PBX were required due to...
Office Move Made Simple
Moving office is always a very involved process and can be quite stressful. With so many things to co-ordinate, sometimes the timescales of moving phone lines, broadband, WiFi and phone systems are overlooked, which can lead to business downtime. This month, one of...
Remote Working Setup with 3CX - https://mailchi.mp/9b270df38098/remote-working-setup-with-3cx
Own 3CX and trying to figure out how to setup your phone system home office?
We have put together a short guide to help you setup 3CX at home.
Let us know your thoughts and how your business is managing it's remote comm's!
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