CEO Slip-ups: Have you Ever Made a Big Mistake at Work?

When CEO’s explain or recall their business blunders of the past, they usually state they learned something and at the very least learned to survive what could have been a pure nightmare.  Some business CEO tips for surviving are as follows:

  • try to learn from something bad or else the experience was useless.
  • don’t be afraid to show your true self to the world, it may give you the world.
  • Don’t be afraid of not being liked ALL of the time.
  • be a great observer…try not to jump into things without spending some time observing first.
  • realize you are less likely to notice your own errors so double, no, triple check yourself and your work.
  • There is a quote by famous Director, Paul Weitz…”If you’re worried about being perfect, you’ll never come up with anything good”. Accept and adapt to your imperfections.
  • be knowledgeable about things around you and your business and be prepared for at least two different scenarios for everything you do.

NW MAP Features: Infinity Internet

Infinity Internet:

The company… is one of the West Coast’s largest independently held data services companies.  They are a locally owned and operated company since 1987, currently enjoying a customer base of over 20,000 satisfied clients dispersed across the globe. 

 Clients range from small startups to publicly traded international companies. They provide enterprise grade services with the personal support that only a local company can provide.

 The services…Infinity provides data center space and cloud services at its carrier neutral facility in downtown Portland. This location allows for Infinity to have connectivity to almost any carrier available in the Portland market. 

 Agent Opportunity…As an agent, this opens up additional bandwidth opportunities for your clients, and provides additional services that you can sell to them. This allows you to diversify and increase your income from your clients. Infinity will provide sales support and migration management for clients to ensure that they have an effortless transition into a resilient and secure data center environment.

 Infinity also has a fixed microwave network that covers a majority of the Portland and Vancouver metropolitan markets. This is an excellent solution to provide clients high speed bandwidth as it is cost competitive with local fiber offerings and can often get to places that fiber is not delivered. This product also functions exceptionally well as a failover solution for clients than need maximum uptime. 

*If you have a client that may need these services, please inquire about doing a site survey.

For more info contact: info@nwmap.com

NWMAP Introduces Our Newest Member

NWMAP Telecommunications would like to introduce our newest member of the team; Deserie Thomas.

15+ years experience in office management and customer service is being well utilized in her current position with us as Office Manager and Support. She was hired at the end of 2011. While new to Telecom, she has proven to be more than capable assisting Lennie and the agents of NW Map in pricing, service requests, and all the steps necessary to facilitate new business orders. She can provide proposals, initiate paperwork, track orders, and help with other agent needs while offering superior customer service to existing clients.

Deserie states she is “thrilled to be part of the NW Map team” and we are equally pleased to have her on the team.

She can be reached by phone: 360-635-4353 x211 or by email: support@nwmap.com

Telecom in the News: April 2012

NWMAP likes to review the top Telecom news stories for each month. This is what was happening in March and April.

March wrapped up the Channel Partners Conference and Expo in Las Vegas. For a complete review: https://nwmap.com/2012-channel-partners-vegas-telecom-conference-and-expo-review

Other news:

Communications network provider MegaPath Corp.’s aggressive Ethernet over Copper buildout has put the carrier among the nation’s largest providers of EoC service.

In the past year, MegaPath has aggressively expanded its EoC footprint. In September, it announced it would provide service nationwide.

 Read more: MegaPath among largest Ethernet over Copper players – FierceTelecom http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/megapath-among-largest-ethernet-over-copper-players/2012-04-17#ixzz1soNqkrlT

Windstream is offering new disastor recovery service. The drive here is about unburdening a business from having to build their own disaster recovery capabilities themselves. By handing these processes to Windstream, they can replicate and recover critical servers and data center infrastructure in the cloud at a lower cost.

Integra Telecom is adding another page to its growing medium-to-large business service cookbook by launching a new set of optical wavelength services. Targeted at large enterprises, health care, and financial service companies, the new service provides metro-area and long-haul private networking for a set of customers that want high-bandwidth, dedicated network transport between their locations. Delivered over Integra’s DWDM-based fiber network, the focus is on providing customers flexibility and choice. They get the service with either a TDM or Ethernet interface in increments of 1 Gbps, 2.5 Gbps, or 10 Gbps.

 
In April, EarthLink Business will unveil IT services for smaller, single locations. The provider has offered an enterprise version but wanted to target other organization sizes as well.
 
Cloud computing and services is all the buzz. Cloud computing service delivery has a strong business case that includes cost reduction, service acceleration, and improved service delivery quality and reliability. Before developing the business case, however, it is necessary to define cloud services because the term cloud has been overused.

2012 Channel Partners; Vegas Telecom Conference and Expo Review

 The 2012 Spring Channel Partners Conference & Expo concluded on March 29 in Las Vegas at the Caesars Palace. With record attendance, it was the largest exhibition and the greatest participant engagement of any previous event hosted by Channel Partners.

 Lennie Green’s Review: It was a great show and plenty of quality time with carriers, learning what’s new. Cloud technology was all the buzz. Many carriers offering paid by month services ranging from Hosted IP to email integration.

 Integra, along with Comcast, will be offering a Hosted Solution the 4th quarter of 2012. We’re interested in seeing that.

 Airespring was a great luncheon, introducing Bring Your Own Internet.

 Larry Wilcox, agent winner of the NWMAP Las Vegas contest, joined us. It was a comprehensive show overall and looking forward to next year’s spring show- end of Feb- beginning of March at the Venetian in Vegas.

Join us next year! How to be an agent: https://nwmap.com/contact-us/become-an-agent