Is Your Business Disaster Ready? Find Out What You Need to Know About Disaster Recovery Services

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Every business must confront the topic of disaster preparedness. It’s also one of those things we must maintain and keep up-to-date whether it’s back-up services or emergency strategies. While we realize it may end up on a business’ back-burner, people quickly find out it’s completely necessary when it’s necessary.

There are several ways to approach your businesses’ disaster plans in the Cloud. Cloud disaster recovery is becoming an easy, cost-effective, and now more secure than ever plan to keep your company from being tragically effected by an unforeseen disaster (loss of data, security breach, loss of business connectivity and continuity during a natural disaster).

Where to begin: Telecom Agents can help determine what plan is best for your business needs. Of course we’d encourage this route, we’re Telecom agents, but seriously this is your best bet to end up with your best plan of action.

First, you must determine your level of need. This isn’t necessarily how likely you are to e effected as much as it is how much it could hurt you and how much you have to lose. No business can afford to lose to a disaster- many will eventually end of bankrupt! Benefit versus risk is a ration we deal with often in business. Of course this is off-set by how much a business can afford to spend on a disaster recovery plan.

This is why we’ve taken special interest in disaster Cloud Recovery services. There are so many to choose from. Again, that’s why we’re the Agents- we’ve got a handle on this for you. We can help! Just to give you an idea…

Evolve IP Cloud Recovery plan, DRaas suite,  entails data protection and automated options for business continuity, match level of risk and spend accordingly. Customers not only know where their data is backed up, they also know how and when they will have it restored.

They suggest 3 aspects to consider:

  • Source of System – Whether your system is onsite, in the Evolve IP Cloud, or elsewhere.
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – How current your data is at the recovery site.
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – How long it should take to bring an environment back online once a disaster or major incident is declared.

Evolve IP’s DRaaS Suite products are designed to deliver a wide range of RPO/RTO service levels, with RPO’s measured in seconds, not hours. The Evolve IP DRaaS Suite includes:

  • DRaaS SRM (EMC as a Service) – Standard and Premium
  • DRaaS ZT – Standard and Premium
  • DRaaS DK – One-to-One
  • DRaaS DT – One-to-One and Many-to-One
  • Cloud Backup/Reflection – Standard and Enterprise

Airespring will tell you ‘Downtime can cost you’. They also provide services, such as Managed Failover, for just the occasion- you know, the one you weren’t planning for.

Managed Failover provides a separate, redundant network connection in the event your primary connection fails. While the AireSpring Network already includes multiple levels of redundancy to ensure high availability for our Cloud and Voice Network or private MPLS Networks, Managed Failover offers an additional level of high availability connectivity at your location.

Other features include:

  • AireSpring’s Managed Failover Connectivity will automatically detect access issues with the primary connection and route traffic over the redundant connection until service is restored to the primary connection.
  • AireSpring professionally configures the router, then manages and monitors your network with the help of our 24/7 AireNMS network monitoring service.
  • AireSpring Voice and MPLS services can also be configured to automatically failover.
  • Diversified connectivity options are available using a wide range of underlying vendors: Ethernet (copper and fiber), EOC, TDM, Cable, DSL and Wireless.

The Value of Telecom Agents When Considering The Cloud

Telecom Agents understand the business and they’ve built relationships with vendors so that your buying experience will be that much easier. The important conversation today is all about Cloud computing. And Agent can help you address your questions. It’s no secret the Cloud is something that has benefits for virtually every business. The ONLY downside is the abundance of information out there.

As you can imagine, this can be overwhelming for the average business owner and client. Agents help weed through that for you and with you. Agents realize some clients don’t even want to test the waters but getting the conversation started will help ease the hesitations and ultimately boost both business costs and productivity.

COST:

If clients are thinking about the Cloud only in terms of just one more technology they need to unravel the mystery of, they’re at a significant disadvantage. Agents can open up the world of Cloud to them from the cost savings point of view. The Cloud is a shift in the business and economic models for adapting IT.

Questions to address:

How old is your server?

What would the cost be to replace your server?

How old are the desktop PC’s?

How much would it cost to replace just one of those PC’s?

Do you have IT needs/projects that are too expensive to complete?

PRODUCTIVITY:

Businesses, especially the small- medium (SMB’s), must be seen as competitive as the larger ones since it’s quite possible with e-commerce. The Internet has given SMB’s an advantage and is the perfect place for you to gain that edge. However, behind the scenes must also be on target as well. Telecom Agents work to bridge the gap between behind-the-scene results and client satisfaction.

Questions to address:

Do you have IT needs/projects that are simply too time-consuming to complete?

Do you have employees who work remotely in the field or telecommute?

Is there a system or process in place to restore data quickly?

How is information currently being backed up?

LET’S GET THE CLOUD CONVERSATION SARTED TODAY! ASK AN AGENT: https://nwmap.com/contact-us

Do You Have What it Takes to be a Telecom/Sales Agent?

imagesCAXV86Y4When the topic of SALES is mentioned it can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. Some are put off by the mere word while others welcome it and/or it means money in their pocket and even flexible hours! What do you think of? An exciting challenge? A daunting endeavor for extroverts? President of NWMAP, Lennie Green, created a list of a few personality traits and types of people who would make a perfect-fit SALES Agent. He’s witnessed various types of people make a nice living selling Telecom services and products. He’s also been down that road himself.

First of all, it may seem less overwhelming when people know Sales Agents learn on-the-job. This means it’s an opportunity for growth. Lennie has specific tools he supplies his newer agents with and guides them through their independent path of sales. Traits and key points he’s noticed that do well or gravitate towards Sales Agent careers are as follows:

  • Enjoy a challenge. Problems have solutions.
  • Good listeners- every transaction with a customer involves a good amount of listening.
  • Believe in the word-of-mouth system. With each customer you’ve helped, there is a good chance it will get around.
  • View themselves as a business and an asset.
  • Want to do better than good or good enough. they’re always looking to improve themselves and invest in themselves as a business.
  • Good at time management and learn good time skills like closing sells faster.

The nitty gritty:

  • An ability and willingness to learn on-the-job, asking questions, and soaking up knowledge constantly.
  • Even engineering and/or technical people with the knowledge can learn people skills on the job and vice versa- if you have those people skills, you can learn the technical side.
  • Realize sales is about building relationships, networks, and customer satisfaction. It can be very rewarding (aside from the money).
  • A problem solver who enjoys creating strategies and working consistently with clients to find solutions. Think of it as a love connection dating site, except Telecom Sales Agents are matching their clients with the perfect product and service plan.
  • An ability to go between the people side of things to the technical side of things.
  • Speaking, and translating technology terms to clients.

You can grow into a sales position! Start with doing it on the side and build your business.

Interested? https://nwmap.com/contact-us/become-an-agent

NWMAP Annual Rafting Trip 2015

527532_10151151651543755_1840486639_nIt’s that time of year again. Rafting in the sun.  Come join the NMAP Team with Agents, associates, and clients on the Deschutes River in Maupin, Or. We don’t always stay dry but we always have fun. You can join us on site at the campground (you’ll need cash for parking/permits) or stay at the nearest hotel (link provided below). Lennie Green has information for all of this and can help you plan to make this a fun adventure with less stress about the details. We can’t promise you you’ll stay dry, but you won’t want to!

Save the date: July 24, 25, 26th 2015.

Typically people have a lot of questions so please feel free to contact Lennie. Got questions or need to confirm, email  Lennie Green: Lennie@nwmap.com

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NWMAP Annual Contest for Telecom Agents

This year marks our best ever contest prize: NWMAP Fall Fest dinner event for 6 winners! Every year NWMAP invites a few select employees to join an annual gathering we like to call Fall Fest. The event lands in November in time to get everyone in the seasonal spirit. Last year’s Fall Fest took place in Lincoln City, OR with dinner and overnight arrangements at the coast. This year will also be a dinner event, but the location is a surprise for now.

This year we’re holding a contest for additional Agents to attend our festivity. Winners will be selected by :
Most Sales
Most in one sale
Most improved sales
& random winners will also be announced.

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More details later…In the meantime let’s get selling!