TT (Telecom Tidbits) - TBI and Adtran, Telarus all-in-one Marketing, Atomic8ball Websites, PAETEC / MegaPath Awards

The following "telecom tidbits" ("TTs")  caught my interest lately so I thought I'd pass them on. 

Agents and Equipment

TBI's Adtran Blog Post   I really like this blog post. It showcases a classic master agency (TBI) that is taking on the challenge of related telecom equipment.  It's one thing to be able to quote bandwidth - it's quite another to be able to discuss the equipment options necessary to make the bandwidth work. Click here to check the blog post out...


Agent Marketing

Need a Marketing Facelift? Telarus introduces "all-in-one" marketing package. Telarus has worked out a special deal for its agents to get a marketing overhaul, including a new logo, web site (with XML plug-in), business cards, and fliers (including printing). All for under $2000.

Click the following links for more info: http://airvae.com/telarus_agents.html    http://airvae.com/telarus_agents_websites.html


Need a Telecom Website, Email Newsletters and Lead Management?  Check out and compare the services of Atomic8ball.  I put this together for TA members after seeing what these folks do for other TA agent members I know.


Vendor Awards

PAETEC Ranks in the Deloitte 2009 Technology Fast 500™ List  The Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ recognizes 500 of the fastest growing technology, media telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America based on percentage of fiscal year revenue growth over five years. In 2003 and 2004, PAETEC also ranked on the list at #2 and #154 respectively.

MegaPath Named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List - Company Recognized for the Third Time as One of the Fastest Growing Companies in North America. MegaPath Inc., the leading provider of managed IP data, voice, and security services in North America, today announced it has been ranked 364 on the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. The list ranks the fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period.


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Dan's First "Everything" Post

My name is Dan Baldwin and I think about the sales and marketing of telecom, data and related IT solutions and applications to business customers almost all the time.

Sometimes it's a problem, especially when I think about it in the evenings, on the weekends or while I'm on vacation (when I'm supposed to be fulfilling the role of good husband and father.)

For almost 15 years I've been dumping out all my thoughts on my business website at www.TelecomAssociation.com (or one of the previous versions). I've likely written a thousand articles or more since 1995 but very little of it is properly archived as all our old web sites were written in Microsoft Frontpage which does not really lend itself to easy archiving.

For the past year I've been looking at all the new fangled  "content management solution" ("CMS") websites like Joomla and WordPress trying to figure out where to park all my thoughts moving forward. Well I'm sure there are people who can just look at Joomla or WordPress and say, "Oh, I get it!" - but not me. I tried.

One thing I do get is Blogger blogs. I've been publishing different personal blogs on Blogger for a year or so and I've almost never had to think about "How to Publish" I just "write and publish". So now that's what I'm doing with my business blogs. I figure I can keep wasting time thinking about the best way to publish or just publish. I've chosen the latter.

Who do I publish for? The 3,800 members and vendors of Telecom Association. They're mostly all interested in the same things I'm interested in. I've put together a nice little business sharing with TA members all my thoughts on sales and marketing of telecom and related services and helping TA's members share their thoughts with each other.

The biggest problem all TA's articles have is getting sorted out properly so TA members can find content they're looking for weeks, months or years after the original article was published. The problem with most blogs and articles on the Internet is everything is published in chronological order. If you don't see and save content you like the the second it's published it's quickly swallowed up by the Internet - never to be found again - unless it's properly indexed such that a Google search will recover it.

But why so much searching? Can't we organize content better from the start so one's audience can find what they're looking for without so much lost time searching? My aim with this blog and all the related TA blogs I'm publishing is to properly sort everything that needs to be sorted without going deep into debt hiring a staff of web programmers.

For those of you who want to check just one blog for everything, this is your blog. My goal is to publish everything here AND in the proper sub blog. Let me know how I'm doing by posting a comment from time to time.

If you're in telecom and you want to Link up in LinkedIn, please sent me an invitation.

How can I help you? Contact me at Dan@TelecomAssociation.com or call 951-251-5155.