NWMAP Loking Forward From The Vegas Telecom Conference

Every year Lennie Green heads over to the annual Telecom Conference/Expo in Las Vegas. And every year, the President of NWMAP gets inspired. He’s looking at new products and services for both his clients and NWMAP Telecom Agents.
This year’s Expo boasted a myriad of new info events, networking, and a few good times. Jive and 8×8 hosted some great events. Fun was to be had at an Intelysis event where Jeff Waddell’s band was playing at the Hard Rock Café on the strip. Netwroking buddy, Jeff Gray joined Lennie for that.

Down to business: On the business front, Lennie took home some ideas for the future of NWMAP. Possibilities include Hosted Software by the seat. “NWMAP already sells/provides several Hosted services and this one looks promising for our future.” Also, offering Agents a new avenue of sales offerings to clients; a cell plan. Agents would receive residual earnings selling this to clients and rebilling of existing clients such as Verizon and At&T.

Overall, it was a successful, and busy, Vegas Telecom Expo getaway.

Increase Sales With What You Got

We all know there’s a lot of hype and topic-of-the-week talk when it comes to sales. As a salesperson or a business, what’s trending this week, is something we hear often.
Who cares! You can use your run-of-the-mill routine or current business tactics, BUT with a few EXTRAS and additions that work FOR you to take your sales to the next level. These tips can be useful for anybody in business, and especially sales.

Something old, Something new: Ed Catmull, President of Disney’s successful Pixar animation studios, uses a tried and true formula. Blend something you know works with something a little bit out there, or not so obvious. This tactic can be successful simply because it blends something high risk with something low risk and if you blend it well, it’s magic.

Do what you know…already: It may sound safe, but using your personal skill set or business approach to shine is always best in making sales. If your absolute strong suit is your knowledge about your product, use what you got. We’ve all seen somebody trying to pretend to be something they’re not or selling something they’re not convinced about. Find your point of confidence and run with it.

Go big: Look at the giants for inspiration. You may not want to be Amazon or Nordstrom, but they have some of the most amazing reports of excellent service that it proves worth paying attention to what they’re doing to get those reviews. First, have a way for your clients to post comments or reviews. You can learn a lot just with this and it really takes advantage of the Internet way of doing business. Feedback, feedback, feedback! Being concerned about your clients’ satisfaction is good business in itself.

Happy Business To You…

NWMAP Brings It! Telecom Carrier Features

NWMAP recently revised and expanded our carrier list. We work with more carriers than ever and many have specific features we can match with clients. Best fit…always. Some of those features include eFax for $7.95 .03 cents/minute, various level of monitoring options and managed services options, unbeatable savings on Business Ethernet and Hosted bundles, several other business bundles, disaster recovery, auto attendant, desktop phones (updated, best in the business), virtual meetings solutions, cloud services and security options.

We have something for every size business, multiple needs for multiple types of business from restaurant, small business, healthcare field, to multi site construction. Think of us as your go-to option for all other options you require to get the most for your business.

Changes to The NWMAP Telecom Website

We’re your one stop source for all things voice and data. Now we’re a one stop source for NWMAP news and telecom info- you can visit our blog, like a post, and share it. Easy, one step! We’ve updated our website so you can easily share our blog on your favorite social media sites.
Another update is on our carriers page: https://nwmap.com/carriers
We’ve added more carriers than ever, promising to give our clients the best fit for their business needs.

Cloudy With a Chance of Suiting All Businesses (Cloud Technology)

Cloud technology isn’t another one-size-fits-all approach to a better way of doing business. It certainly is a universally applied solution, but one that means very different things to various types and sizes of business. The beauty of the Cloud is how it can fit into any size and virtually all types of businesses, which seems as if I’m contradicting what I’ve just mentioned (and the title of this post). But the difference is Cloud technology has several ways in which it can be utilized within a business- some are heavily dependent on it because it saves money, it’s functional to the start-up business or perhaps it’s the only way to go to connect remote employees or enhance communication between employees and clients on various devices. Both large and SMB’s are benefitting greatly, but only when they apply the Cloud in a way that fits their needs, as far as their crew is trained, how comfortable with the security available and put into place, and as much or as little of their business operating within the Cloud- that’s how businesses are doing it.

All businesses have affordable security technology available to them so they can utilize the BYOD experience (How? Ask us at NWMAP). Today it’s all about the strategy for how it can specifically work for a business. Helpful strategies include:

  • Deciding how to combine work and home calls etc, (i.e. transform a tablet into a desk phone- Yep, we can help you)!
  • What’s your priorities? Communication needs?
  • Security in place (i.e. in case an employee loses their tablet, we have wonderful Cloud security options).
  • Rules- it would be no fun if we didn’t mention rules! But part of the Cloud/BYOD revolution includes businesses having a clear understanding of their plans and strategies, which include guidelines for how the Cloud is used for their business.

Questions about HOW the Cloud might work for you? What’s available to make it work for you? https://nwmap.com/contact-us