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April 2008 - Posts
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Although we did not bring home the championship, we had a great time participating in the four Sportsfest events — dodgeball, volleyball, tug-o-war, and the "beach relay." We're putting the other 160 teams on notice, though...next year we're going to DOMINATE. In addition to Telephony Partners' staff, we had a number of agents and carrier representatives that participated on our team. Qwest, Netwolves, Apex Staffing, and IT Authorities all showed up to participate. You can check out the photos we posted from the event, too. We're going to get started earlier preparing and recruiting next year, so come January or February of 2009 look for your invitation.
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The
Deal
April
2008 Newsletter
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Featured Article
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Linked In? Join the Telecommunications Professionals Network - view Max Edwards' profile and click on the TPN logo
Max's LinkedIn Profile
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SPIF MADNESS!!!
For all of April, Telephony Partners offers Agents 100% pass-through of SPIFs.
Here are some of the hotter deals to get you going -
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Double Whammy SPIF
Bundle
NEW Office Connect/Office Connect Pro with NEW Qwest Switched or
Dedicated LD and earn a minimum of $600. Just use the Qwest Referrel
Program Mid Markets Desk for processing and sign customers to a
24-month QTA with a minimum LD spend of $1000.
Quick Cash
Use the Qwest Referrel Program to process orders for:
NEW Office Connect/Connect Pro Internet Port Promotion
NEW Hosted VoIP Smart Connect Promotion
NEW Integrated Access Office Productivity Promotion
NEW Integrated Access Security Promotion
..and earn a $400 SPIF per circuit.
Learn more about these and other Qwest SPIFs at Q.Partner.
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Bandwidth
Bucks
A SPIF for every qualifying IP Flex, IP Flex w/VPN, and SIP Service sale
(dedicated internet-only deals not included)
MRC from $600-$999 pays $300 SPIF
MRC from $1,000-$1,499 pays
$750 SPIF
MRC from $1,500-$2,499 pays
$1,000 SPIF
MRC $2,500 and up pays $1,500 SPIF
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Feel Free Promotion
Offer your new customers/locations their first month of service FREE and receive an additional $400 per T-1 as part of Deltacom's Feel Free Promotion.
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Featured Article
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Up to 200% MRR
All new facility orders are eligible.
Earn 25% on all orders $450 to $750
scaled all the way up to 200% for orders $10,001 and up.
This is a fantastic opportunity to put more $$$ in your pocket.
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Hello and Welcome -
You
are reading the very first installment of the Telephony Partners
newsletter. We look forward to keeping you abreast of everything going
on around the office and around the industry, and we always invite your
feedback.
We are commemorating the first month of the newsletter with an unbeatable promotion for our agents: SPIF MADNESS. We are offering 100% pass-through of SPIFs to all of our agents for the month of April.
A great way for us to give back to our great agents and to try and get
through a month that is, well, not everyone's favorite. Take the sting
out of tax time with some extra cash - be sure to take a look at the
SPIF offers from a variety of carriers listed in this newsletter.
Along
with SPIF and promotions news, we hope to bring you updates about our
training and mentor programs, news about the evolving technological
terrain where we all do business, as well as insights from our staff
and our agents.
Don't hesitate to send me an email if you
think you have a newsworthy item that should be included in future
editions of the TPLLC Newsletter. Have a fantastic month.
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Qwest Names TPLLC Top Florida Business Partner of 2007
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 Qwest
announced Telephony Partners' designation as Qwest's 2007 Top Florida
Partner at a recent awards meeting in Orlando. CEO Josh Anderson and
Agent Manager Rick Valderrama were on hand (pictured at right with
Qwest's David Rider and Gene Elmore) and were recognized in front of
Qwest's top Florida sales professionals and given a statuette to
commemorate the honor.
"Qwest has always been a leader in the
independent sales channel, and we have been fortunate to work
extensively with them in Florida and throughout the nation," said Josh
Anderson. "Their integrated approach to the channel, allowing direct
reps and our agents to work together on deals and effectively share
leads and industry knowledge, is more progressive and supportive of our
business than any other carrier out there. We are very pleased to be
named Qwest's Top Florida Business Partners 2007."
Telephony
Partners is the carrier's Number One Master Agent in Florida and a
Qwest Premier Business Partner. Josh has sat on the Qwest Advisory
Council and we are a regular attendee of Qwest's annual Q.Marketplace
event for Business Partners.
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| XO Communications and Telephony Partners team up for cocktails at 717 South
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Peter
Davis - Channel manager for XO Communications here in the Florida
region - and the Telephony Partners team got together for a meet and
greet with agents at the award-winning restaurant 717 South. Agents
were treated to a short presentation of XO's capabilities (Ethernet
over copper folks - don't overlook this product), drank some fancy
cocktails and ate some of the better food being served up in South
Tampa.
A
conversation between Peter, RAD-INFO's Peter Radizeski, and Josh about
the hurdles faced by VARs looking to integrate carrier services into
their sales cycle sparked some interesting dialogue and spawned a
podcast that Peter Radizeski hosts on his site (Peter was primed to
talk Master Agents, chairing a round table about them a few weeks later
at the Channel Partners conference.)
While the cocktails and excellent finger food are long gone, the podcast can still be downloaded here.
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TelephonyPartners.com gets a facelift
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It
had been a while, and frankly we were ready to put our best foot
forward for our agents, carrier partners, and prospective agents. The
redesign of our site is complete.
Josh, Rick and Ed have
continued their blogging, and now you can see the most recent additions
to blog content on the front page of the site. Additionally, we have
added a Testimonials page where agents can share their success stories
working with Telephony Partners for the rest of the world to read. For
those interested in pressing issues, our Press Release page will give
details on the events we share with industry media.
As always, a
community area is available for our partners to share their thoughts,
check out photos, and give feedback to the news items and industry
goings-on we blog about.
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| Qwest Training Webinar: Selling WAN Services
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Qwest
is hosting a webinar at Phone+ designed to teach the fundamentals of
selling WAN services in our technologically evolving environment. It is
called "Beyond Price: How to sell next-generation WANS" and will help
agents (among other things):
- Assess the growing demand for WAN services and the migration from legacy to next-generation networks
- Understand the impact of extending next-generation enterprise applications across the WAN
- Discover how MPLS network offerings support the new IT architecture
The Webinar is April 2nd at 2PM EDT. You must pre-register here to attend.
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I
hope you enjoyed our first installment of the Telephony Partners
Newsletter, and I encourage you to take advantage of our SPIF Madness
in the month of April.
Here's to a great month for all Telephony Partners Agents.
Sincerely,
Max Edwards
Telephony Partners, LLC
medwards@telephonypartners.com
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Do you have
OneFlex customers who are having trouble understanding how to maneuver through
the OneFlex end user portal? There’s a Webinar that will help your customers
use the portal to
its fullest advantage. It’s important that you also attend
this webinar so you can discuss it with
your customer.
The Webinars
are scheduled through June at 10:30 a.m. MDT on the second Thursday of each
month as follows:
To attend
this Webinar, you and your customers must register at Qwest.com
(https://qwestconferencing.qwest.com/confmgr/index.jsp).
If you or
your customer misses the Webinar, the recorded session is available for playback
after the conclusion of the Webinar at the following link:
(https://qwestconferencing.qwest.com/confmgr/public_stored_docs.jsp?docType=recordings).
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