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"Everybody Loves Chris" or "Why Agents Aren't Worried About Qwest"

 Posted 4/23/10
By Dan Baldwin, TA Executive Director, 951-251-5155 email

Well this afternoon Qwest had their first conference call with all their telecom agent business channel partners and pretty much said what was expected, "It's too early to know for sure exactly what's going to happen about anything."

I spoke to a couple more TA members that are Qwest master agents and one theme is being repeated quite a bit, "CenturyTel really wanted the Qwest business sales machine and they're putting Chris Ancell in charge of anything that has to do with business sales for the merged company." Chris is mentioned quite positively in...

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Meet the Five Star "Channel Chiefs" Roy Tanner & Matt Miclette

 Posted 4/23/10
By Dan Baldwin, TA Executive Director, 951-251-5155 email

With Qwest sucking up all the air with their big merger announcement, now's a good time to find out who the biggest and best Qwest master agents are. Following is a video interview I did with Roy Tanner and Matt Miclette of Five Star Communications last month at the Channel Partners trade show in Las Vegas.

Five Star has been a master agency that's been flying under the radar for most of us but they're pretty well known in Qwest circles. Now they want to be known in your telecom agent and channel partner circles.

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Need Some Advice From "Mr. Qwest"? Call Dave...

Posted 4/22/10
By Dan Baldwin, TA Executive Director, 951-251-5155 email

You can tell what a man's passions are by checking out what he does in his spare time. Apparently Dave Laskowski, the Managing Partner of CTG3 writes a blog about Qwest. Seriously!

Dave likes Qwest so much that he actually owns two Qwest agencies, CTG3 and Bandwidth Builders.

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MegaPath Sales VP Shares 2010 Vision at Telarus Agent Expo

At the annual Telarus Agent Expo this past month, Eric Wick, MegaPath VP of Sales got up close and personal with the crowd and shared why Telarus and MegaPath get along so well. 

After that he went on to suggest why MegaPath was positioned to make sure Telarus agents could maximize their customers happiness in 2010. Eric's presentation was actually one of the best 15-minute vendor overviews I've seen lately.

Click here to view screen shots from the PowerPoint presentation and the 15-minute video of Eric's remarks

Qwest Predicts Business Tech Trends at Telarus' Annual Agent Expo

At the annual Telarus Agent Expo last month, Qwest gave a terrific presentation that showcased the macro trends that would shape the business telecom and technology buying climate over the next 18 months or so.

As you can see from this PowerPoint slide screen shot to the right, major present and future trends include:

• Network Traffic Growth
• Collaboration: Text, Voice & Video
• Internet Gets Mobile
• Smartphones!
• Google and Disruptive Innovation
• THE CLOUD
• Intercompany and Customer collaboration
• Ethernet Delivery
• Data Center Consolidation

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Posted under Qwest, Telarus, Master Agency & TA Expo Blogs

Qwest Multi-Location Case Study Training at Telarus Agent Expo

Telarus hosts their annual agent expo each year in Las Vegas during the two days that precede the annual Channel Partners Conference. It's a training intensive event that brings Telarus' corporate staff together with close to 100 of their top agents and most all of their top vendors.

The first of the two days was dedicated to deep technical training with Qwest on their SIP, MPLS and hosted VoIP solutions. the day was capped off by a great case study that required that the audience put their thinking caps on to solve a problem for a multi-location customer.

Click here to view the complete blog post which includes seven "video snapshots" as well as a detailed multi-location case study 

 

Telarus President Adam Edwards opening Telarus Expo

 

Telarus Agent Gala Gorman with Qwest Case Study solution
 
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Posted 3/9/2010 in Expo, Telarus, Qwest & Master Agent Blogs