Give your business a competitive edge with a Cloud VPN service. In this post, we’ll tell you why a VPN is the secret ingredient for your company’s success. Virtual Private Networks, VPNs, offer powerful advantages for businesses in a number of sectors– including professional marketers SEO companies, financial firms, travel agencies and more.
Essentially, a Virtual Private Network is a technology that allows you to set up a private, secure connection to another remote network. However, VPN usage is no longer just about connecting to your office’s local network.
The benefits go far, far beyond this. Here are 10 reasons why a VPN is the secret ingredient you need to help your business succeed and thrive.
Chances are if you’re an SEO Firm, Ad agency, or even a business looking to optimize your advertising efforts, the ability to easily view, monitor and manage your ads and relevant keywords internationally is key.
But how are you supposed to do that if the web you view in your country is completely different from the way the web appears in another country? The answer is simple: a Cloud VPN.
VPNs allow you to establish a connection to a remote server, including international remote servers that allow you to browse the web as if you were in another country. This feature allows you to see how your ads appear in key markets and easily observe keyword performance in target countries. In short, a Cloud VPN service allows you to internationally market and advertise your company to the fullest extent possible.
A Cloud VPN service allows you to easily monitor your international ad campaigns while also giving you a glimpse into your competition’s marketing efforts.
If you know that one or several of your competitors are performing strongly in a certain region, research what they’re doing.
By changing your geo-location online, you can easily beat your competitors at their tactics and establish your company as an industry leader. However, this doesn’t only apply to ads– but to your competitor’s online activities in general.
For example, as we shared on Recruiter.com, this aspect of a VPN can be incredibly helpful for recruiters as well. With a VPN, recruiters can more easily access a variety of international job listings and view relevant candidates internationally.
This means getting the edge on competitors and making as many placements and as much commission as possible.
Over 60 countries worldwide censor the Internet; some more aggressively than others. Did you know that in numerous countries, such as the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Brazil, VoIP calling apps like Skype, Whatsapp and Viber are currently blocked? Certain countries (China is, of course, the most well-known example) not only block VoIP apps but also block major online platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google.
It’s likely, however, that as a business, you rely on these apps to communicate and work with colleagues and clients. Luckily, with a VPN, the location of your office or plans for travel shouldn’t affect your ability to utilize popular platforms apps.
Since a VPN allows you to mask your location and browse the web as if you were in another country of your choice, you can bypass online censorship and access any app, social media network, website, and/or online office tool that you want. Simply connect to a different worldwide server and enjoy all the resources you need for your business.
If you’re a business with a product, service or game that is distributed internationally online, you’ll want to ensure it is functioning perfectly worldwide. With a VPN, your QA team can easily change their online Geo-location to effectively check the quality of your product in your key international markets.
Using a Cloud VPN is an excellent way to provide your QA team with the means to make sure everything in your platform, software, service or game is working as smoothly as it should–in any location.
Geo-targeting is a common practice used by websites to deliver different content to different users based on their geographic location. Customizing one’s site to respond differently to users in this way, with native language text, images and currency, can be a powerful marketing tool and greatly increase your conversion rate.
By connecting to a VPN server and changing your perceived geographic location online, you can not only see how other competitors are managing geo-targeting but also how your geo-targeting efforts are working as well.
In short, a great Cloud VPN service will allow you to make the absolute best-targeted efforts possible, and drive your business’s revenues in any region.
Unlike proxy services, a VPN service also allows you to browse the web through a secure, bank-level encrypted connection. This aspect of a VPN is crucial for businesses, especially considering the significant increase in recent data breaches.
While you may have reliable IT security systems in place, it’s important to remember that even some of the most reputable sites do not use HTTPS, which means information exchanged over these sites is not encrypted and can easily be stolen by hackers.
With a Cloud VPN, you and your employees can enjoy a bank-level encrypted Internet connection at all times, on any site– regardless of whether the site provides encryption or not. This aspect of a VPN could be invaluable to the safety and security of your company and your clients’ valuable data.
It’s clearly very important to be able to connect to Wi-Fi regularly and catch up on emails while you’re on business travel and working abroad. While public Wi-Fi hotspots at airports, hotels and cafes are convenient, they are actually quite dangerous — both on a professional and personal level.
The reason being that these networks are completely unsecured, leaving your personal information vulnerable and increasing your chances of being the one person every 2 seconds that fall victim to identity theft.
As our CEO and Co-founder, Amit Bareket remarked in an interview with VPN authority VPN Mentor: “The methods used by hackers, snoopers and governments are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and there are more and more windows of opportunity for them to take advantage of unsecured data.”
Over Public WiFi, snoopers and hackers can see what you do on unencrypted sites (sites without HTTPS at the beginning of the URL address) as well as which encrypted sites you access.
They can also install software on your computer which can capture confidential information like usernames, passwords, credit card numbers and even email and search history.
With a Cloud VPN, you can enjoy the peace of mind that all your company’s data and sensitive financial information, as well as your own, is completely safe.
With the rise of personal electronic devices and telecommuting, many businesses are now operating with BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policies. It’s likely your business is one of them.
And you wouldn’t be alone — recent data reveals that 84 percent of Americans work remotely from home once a month, and a whopping 90 percent of Americans use their personal smartphones for work. While this kind of freedom can be financially beneficial and encourage employee productivity, it can also pose serious cyber and data security risks.
With BYOD and telecommuting practices, your business must now rely on your employees to be security savvy when using their own, personal devices. And of course, it’s very hard to fully control how an employee will use their own personal device when out of the office.
For example, if one of your employees conducts business over an unsecured Public WiFi hotspot, they, albeit most likely not realizing it, risk leaking confidential company data because, as mentioned above, these networks are unsecured and susceptible to snoopers and hackers.
For this reason, it’s a must for any business to provide their employees with easy-to-use VPN software on all their devices. With the right service, all your employees will have to do is connect with one click and continue their online activities as usual. VPN applications allow your employees to encrypt and secure their online traffic— no matter where they browse.
Additionally, as an added benefit, they will be able to enjoy unrestricted access to their favorite content, streaming entertainment and apps while they travel for business abroad.
Fraud in online transactions is an issue that plagues nearly every company offering their services online. With a Cloud VPN, you can mask your actual IP address and browse with one of your VPN service’s IP addresses, making you anonymous online.
This is a powerful tool that will allow you and your employees to conceal your online identities and spy on fraudsters trying to take advantage of your company over the web.
Whether you’re a small business owner or a travel agency, the ability to bypass online price discrimination can be a powerful benefit for your business and not one that should be quickly overlooked.
Online price discrimination is a very real Internet phenomenon where service providers such as airlines, rental car companies and software subscription services charge different prices based on a user’s geographic location.
A Cloud VPN allows you to change your IP address to match that of a country with a lower cost of services. That means businesses can benefit from saving hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on business travel and/or expensive software subscriptions; and travel agencies can get the edge in business by offering their clients the absolute best rates and deals. Instant savings: what business can’t benefit from that?
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