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.

Telecom in the News!

Each month NWMAP Telecom likes to feature Telecom events that made it in the news or pertinent info to your need-to-know Telecom info. We haven’t updated this in a couple of months now so we’d like to start anew this month by sharing WHERE we get our news from.

Many sites have frequently updated Tech and Telecom info in abundance, but not all of it is pertinent to everyone. We focus on widespread news that benefits or affects many people. Lately we’ve been focusing on business, sales approach, and other aspects within the Telecom industry itself.

Some great daily info for CIO’s and even CEO’s is at the Harvard Business Review site under the “Blogs” section: http://blogs.hbr.org/ There is a lot of info here from leadership, sales approaches, innovation, and all the other buzz words of the day. Some of it is based largely on opinions, making it subjective in nature, However, there are some gems here so keep on the lookout. Our favorite this month was: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/want_to_raise_prices_tell_a_be.html

We also like our Telecom carriers’ blogs. NWMAP has over 40 carriers we represent. These are specific to the needs of our agents at NWMAP and people in the industry. We like Intelysis Blog and Telecom Channel Blog:http://www.intelisys.com/press . Another good one is 8×8: http://www.8×8.com/AboutUs/8x8Blog.aspx

For the daily grind: http://www.networkworld.com/topics/unified-communications.html and http://www.infoworld.com/news. Oh, and one more:http://www.fiercetelecom.com/news . You’re going to find company specific news here and news on the big ones like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google, etc.