Posted 3/23/10
By Dan Baldwin, TA Executive Director, 951-251-5155 email
Telecom agents and channel partners understand this problem too well when it comes to keeping track of voice and data circuit pricing and promos for their business customers.
Telarus is doing a great job of helping their agents though with their new one-page product matrix.
Click here to view the whole blog post and see the one-page matrix
Filed under Telarus and Master Agency blogs.
What TA's doing to generate business for our members? Check this out...
Who needs direct mail to send a funny post card image when the Internet is faster and easier on the environment? Click the image below to view the first image of a series TA is publishing here on our Facebook fan page to initiate a viral campaign that is designed to drive business to TA professional members.Will it work? Well a similar concept (like the one you can see at this link: http://bit.ly/KeyWestBar ) has helped over 4,000 thirsty folks get a happy hour special in Key West.
We'll release about one image per week. Got an image to contribute? Contact Dan Baldwin at [email protected] or 951-251-5155.
Use the same contact information to get on the lists of TA Professional members so you can get referrals ... first com, first served!
Posted at TA Marketing Telecom & BuyingTelecom blogs
Aelea Christofferson, President and Founder of ATL Communications is interviewed at SuperComm 2009 by TMC. In this interview Aelea shares how ATL is pioneering a solution that gives private firms the ability to create a "reverse" disaster recovery solution to keep them in touch with their customers.
ATL's unique "reverse" disaster recovery solutions are in addition to the other solutions they provide telecom agents, channel partners, IP carriers as well as any toll free provider or user needing the services of an independent RespOrg ("responsible organization") to manage their toll-free numbers.
Filed under TA Backup/Disaster Recovery Blog
What does it take to "arrive" as an agent (i.e. "When will my spouse start speaking to me again?)
In two years of covering the annual Telarus Agent Expo I've learned that Telarus fosters an environment that causes their top agents to share some of their best secrets with other Telarus agents. This is obviously one of the big draws that cause such a good turnout at Telarus' annual Agent Expo. It also tends to get a higher than average attendance rate to Telarus' weekly agent training calls.
This year Telarus had Tim O'Rourke of TelePointe Communications, Gala Gorman of Go To Telecom, Steve Roy of TelecomBuyer.us and Jeff Ott of Total Carrier Solutions all take the stage to share with their peers.
Click here to watch the 60 minute video to learn their secrets.
Files under Telarus, Master Agency, TA Expo and TA Agent Success Stories Blog
There's a lot of people that are still just a bit confused about SIP & hosted VoIP and when one is better than the other.
NuVox no doubt had this confusion in mind when they decided to create the short video below to ensure the whole concept of SIP came through crystal clear. While this video was produced several months ago, I just came across it today and I'm sure happy I did.
Click here to view the complete blog post that includes the full NuVox SIP video
Filed under Windstream & TA SIP Blogs
Dan Sterling did not look worried.
Windstream VP of Dealer Sales Dan Sterling tells the Telarus Agent Expo audience why he went from slightly concerned to very happy when he learned that Windstream (an "old-fashioned" residential copper-based carrier with tons of cash but declining revenues) would be purchasing NuVox, a business based CLEC.Sterling assured the Telarus agent audience that he'd been told by everyone at Windstream with an opinion that "they want us to be and stay very aggressive".
Click the video below to view and hear Dan's comments to Telarus' top agents.
Post filed under Windstream, Telarus, Master Agency, CLEC & TA Expo blogs
For those of your that don't know, Facebook is evolving as a great place for small businesses to advertise their services to other business owners. Why? Facebook knows more about you than Google. (don't worry, I think it's all fairly benign.) With Facebook ads you can target the exact sort of audience you want, like college graduate males in Los Angeles.
Several years ago I got involved with Google Ads before the big corporation priced small guys out of the market. (I actually did pretty well. I spent about $15,000 over a couple years by made a bundle off that.)
Posted at the TA Marketing Blog
Are all "copper-in-the-ground" phone companies the same? Apparently not! Why does a "big name" CLEC executive like John Leach move from one big company to another in the middle of a recession? Watch the video below to discern what John sees in Windstream that creates a special opportunity for agents at Windstream.
Like their company name might suggest, John Leach and his fellow Windstream executives delivered some fresh air to Telarus' top agents last month. When you consider all the "me too" vendor presentations you can drown in at a trade show, it's refreshing to hear a presentation that showcases something quite different than all the other presentations. While I believe Telarus is Windstream's biggest or oldest master agent, other TA vendor master agents for Windstream include Telecom Brokerage Inc. out of Illinois, World Telecom Group out of California and