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PHONE+ POLL: How Good a Sales Shot Are You?

How Good a Sales Shot Are You?(poll) ...More
July 7, 2009
Posted in News
Ask Steve: Is There a Home for HDTV at the Office?

When I was 17, I got a phat job at a dry cleaner in the St. Louis suburbs. Making $4.75 an hour, I felt kingly compared to my prior job at McDonald’s where I was making $3.35 an hour plus all the Big Macs I could eat after closing time. At the dry cleaner, we had a ...More
July 1, 2009 By Steve Hilton
Posted in Articles
PHONE+ POLL: Did You Hit Your 2Q Sales Targets?

Did you hit your 2Q sales targets?(survey) ...More
June 30, 2009
Posted in News
Cisco Saves $277 Million Annually With Telecommuting

Cisco Systems Inc. estimated it saves $277 million in productivity annually by allowing employees to telecommute, the company announced this week along with the findings of its Teleworker Survey of nearly 2,000 company employees across five regions globally. The study, ...More
June 26, 2009
Posted in News
Hosted UC On Track to $1B by 2011, Study Shows

Hosted unified communications is a nascent opportunity at the cusp of becoming a big business, according to new data from Wainhouse Research released this week.While Wainhouse Research estimates the current market for hosted UC, or UC as a service (UCaaS), to be less than ...More
June 25, 2009
Posted in News
PHONE+ POLL: Are Sales Quotas Counter to Consultative Sales?

Are sales quotas counter to consultative sales?(polling) ...More
June 23, 2009
Posted in News
Internet’s ‘Global Village’ Theory Debunked

Years ago we learned how the great Information Superhighway was going to open up a great “Global Village” where everyone would join hand-in-hand in a great new spirit of communication. In some respects, it has.But a new study from The Hebrew University in ...More
June 19, 2009
Posted in News
Infonetics: Worldwide PBX Market Declines 31% in Q1

The PBX market declined more than anticipated in the first quarter of 2009, with worldwide revenue dropping 31 percent year over year to $1.7 billion, according to new data from Infonetics Research released this week.The pure IP PBX segment was slightly more insulated than ...More
June 19, 2009
Posted in News, Voice over IP (VoIP)/IP Telephony
Optimum Business, Verizon Top J.D. Power Poll

Optimum Business ranks highest in satisfying home-based and small and medium business customers with telecommunications data services, while Verizon Communications Inc. ranks highest among customers in the large enterprise business segment, according to the J.D. Power and ...More
June 19, 2009 By Khali Henderson
Posted in Articles
Growth in PC Sales Predicted for Channel

According to Gartner Group Inc., the indirect channel stands to benefit from home and SMB business sales of personal computing products in the coming years. By 2012, Gartner predicts almost 80 percent of these sales globally will be transacted through the channel. Predicted ...More
June 18, 2009
Posted in News