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SIP TRAINING THURSDAY from TelePacific

Brown Bag: TelePacific's SmartVoice - VoIP Thursday, May 6, 2010 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT Join this session to hear the latest updates on SmartVoice SIP Network Connection from the subject matter expert, Director of VoIP, Laurene Heinsohn as she provides valuable info. Telecom agents, channel partner...

SIP TRAINING TUESDAY from TMC

SIP is ready for prime time. Are you? Please register for this meeting. LECs are making front-page news with plans to reduce landlines; and customers are looking for alternatives. SIP is the answer. Are you ready? Now is the time to start talking SIP. We’ll show you how agents are...

TA MEMBER OF THE DAY.  Sean Robertson of Computer Telephony Distributing shares how CTD helps fellow TA members determine which telecom equipment solution is best suited for any customer or network service design.

 


Good news and bad news for classic "network service only" salespeople from the UC Summit.  Click here to read my quick take-aways. More details later this week.


UC Summit Delivers High End Equipment & Consulting Expertise to Telecom Association

          I have just returned from the UC Summit and  want to give all TA members a quick review of what I've learned. I'll blog more extensively over the next several days.

         The UC Summit was billed as a collection of "channel thought leaders" which it certainly was. In layman's terms, it was all the big universal communications solution equipment providers (NEC, Avaya, Cisco, Siemens, IBM, Microsoft, etc.), their resellers, their analysts & independent consultants. Except for a couple hosted VoIP business owners I think I was the sole representative of the "network service sales" world....


Five Different TA Vendors Hiring Sales Managers


With Five different TA vendors have sent out blasts in the past several weeks that they are hiring channel managers or direct sales.  The vendors hiring aare Telecom Brokerage Inc., Ernest Group, TelePacific, InterCall and Telesphere.   So much for a recessing, right?
         Four involve recruiting, training and managing telecom agents and channel partners.

         See all the jobs at TA's Telecom Jobs Blog.


"Everybody Loves Chris" or "Why Agents aren't Worried about Qwest"

On April 23 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 ...

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