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Featured · Telephony

The 2027 PSTN
switch-off, in plain English.

A clear-headed guide to what's actually happening to UK phone lines, what your real deadlines are, and the four things you need to do before this time next year, even if you have no idea what ISDN is.

12 min read · By Plum engineering
CRM · 8 min

Bigin vs Zoho CRM: which one fits your business.

Bigin or Zoho CRM proper, how we help customers pick the right one, with real cost and feature differences.
Telephony · 9 min

Designing telephony for a half-in, half-out team.

Patterns for hybrid teams: when softphone-only works, when you still want deskphones, and how to keep call quality on home broadband.
IT basics · 4 min · video

Cyber security for small business: where we'd start.

Microsoft 365 set up properly, backups that restore, updates done, and a team that can spot a dodgy email.
More posts coming · We publish roughly monthly
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