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Top 5 Reasons to Attend SMB VoIP
September 20-22, Washington DC 2010

5. The humidity will be gone from Washington DC. Admittedly – the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington DC (mid-July) was a bit overheated and humid. That all changes in the fall – it’ll be a glorious few days at the Gaylord!

4. Co-location is LEVERAGE! We are delighted to team with Channel Partners, a well-established telecom show. We believe that we’re better together. The typically Channel Partner’s attendee is a “sales agent” who is very good at promoting and selling telecom plans and cloud services. That allows our SMB Nation tribal members to actually “do the work” if you team up. It’s hand-and-glove folks!

3. SMB Subject Matter Experts! We’re bringing in the best in the business again. You’ll just have to click through to see who!

2. Be there at the Start – SMB VoIP community. Leading the parade and being ahead of the curve is a time-tested formula for business success. This is your chance to “own” the entire customer relationship that combines voice+data. This time the convergence is for real.

1. You Must! Home alarm system time folks – if you don’t VoIP your customers as a computer guy, someone else will. That is, the telephone grrl will come in and steal your client. Trust us – she’s already calling on your accounts!

 

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I chatted with a couple of Aastra executives about being "born again" after Response Point - the Microsoft small business telephone system that was withdrawn from the marketplace. Here are my field notes.

Microsoft’s recent announcement put the final nail in the coffin of Response Point has left many RP resellers high and dry: 1) it casts a cloud over any pending or recent RP sales, and 2) it leaves them with a hole in their portfolio. Fortunately Aastra has solutions that address both of these points:
  
1)     Aastra has developed software that allows Aastra RP phones to be reflashed to support open standard SIP:
·         Customers may choose to do it now and covert to a standards-based platform, or
·         At least it will give them assurance that if they buy a RP and want to change it out in the future their investment in the phones is protected
·         Simple procedure
·         Software is available as a free download from Aastra at www.aastrausa.com/aastralink-pro and click on AastraLink RP Conversion tab
2)     Aastra also offers the AastraLink Pro as an alternative for resellers to sell
·         Addresses the same market (up to 50 users)
·         Based on open source Asterisk platform
·         Feature-rich including Visual Voicemail, Voicemail-to-Email
·         Easy to install and manage
·         Supports open standard SIP phones –both Aastra’s and others
·         Sign up for a free webinar June 23 which resellers can attend to learn more about both the product and the opportunity with Aastra; go to www.aastrausa.com/aastralink-pro and click on Webinar Sign-up tab
·         By signing up for the webinar potential resellers are eligible for a special promotional pricing on an AastraLink Pro bundle

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