Welcome Erik Buhl To NW MAP Telecom

Erik Buhl is a new addition to the NWMAP team. He’s our designated data center, cloud, managed infrastructure, and disaster recovery Specialist. That’s a mouthful, but he really has an impressive professional competence that simply can’t be ignored once you’ve had the chance to work with him. In addition, he successfully bridges the ominous gap between people and technology/engineering. He starts a conversation and follows through with the strategies necessary to implement the connections. In the past, he has been tied to channel partners either managing relationships for manufacturers in a direct sales role or engineering and configuring cloud services with details ranging from space, power, and cooling requirements to developing strategy and disaster recovery deployments. Most recently he led the Infinity Internet sales team, developing new products with engineering. For these and many other reasons, Erik comes as a highly recommended addition to our team.

Please don’t hesitate to contact Erik.
He looks forward to working on new opportunities or creating incremental business within existing accounts.

By phone: (360) 635-4353 x. 206  By email: erik@nwmap.com.

 

Agents Earn Cash with Integra Telecom Promos

Telecom Agents earn cash with carrier promos. This is an excellent way to earn cash QUICKLY! NW MAP Telecom has well over 40 carriers they partner with, meaning our agents have access to the best deals, the inside deals, and do not have to answer to any one carrier in particular. We are truly able to give our clients specifically what they want and need.

If you’ve ever thought about earning some extra cash, NW MAP gives you the tools you need to succeed as one of our agents. This first quarter in 2013 many of our carriers are offering promos that earn you cash the very next month:

Earn monthly payments based on your total monthly sold MRC on new logo sales as well as existing customer upgrades. Incentive program valid through March 31, 2013.

*payment will be made directly to agent at the end of the month for previous month’s orders.

*existing upgrade orders will be qualified based on added MRC only.

Monthly Sales                   MRC Spiff Card Payment
$250-499                           $250
$500-999                           $500
$1,000-1,999                     $1,000
$2,000+                             $2,000

 

Selling The Cloud

Recently I ran across an article about Cloud Serivce Brokerages. If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Cloud technology is beyond emerging, it is in the spotlight. We’re all still figuring it out, where it fits into, how it’s best utilized, troubleshooting any issues, while businesses are weighing the pros and cons. Just as NW MAP does for Telecom services in general, there will be professionals needed to help businesses navigate the Cloud for consumers.

This article (link below), and others like it, predict that Cloud Brokerages will be a $100 billion dollar industry/third party assistance/integrator business. Those of us in Telecom have long known about how big a deal this will become. In fact, at NW MAP we are one of the first Telecom agencies to offer some unique services and products utlizing the Cloud. We figure we’ve been in the business for several years, and while Cloud Brokerages will be popping up seemingly overnight, we’ve been there all along and want others to cash in on this too.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/121012-cloud-service-brokerages-emerge-as-264947.html

Businesses can get low prices for the specialized services they need, not to mention be more efficient with or without an IT Department. For some smaller businesses, marketing can be an issue- lack of funds and people for an IT Department so these services are ideal. If you’d like to get a head start take advantage of these services, find out more from one of our agents: https://nwmap.com/contact-us

You can also take advantage of this for a selling opportunity as well- putting money in your pocket. We’re currently looking for talented sales agents to help get the word out and cash in on this opportunity: For more info: https://nwmap.com/contact-us/become-an-agent

Related info: https://nwmap.com/nw-map-offers-innovative-marketing-tools-businesses-can-harness-the-power-of-cloud-technology

Business Leadership; Do You Qualify?

With the ongoing elections beating at the heart of America, making a decision about who will be our leader comes to mind. What makes a good leader? We’ve seen this age-old question, maybe mulled it over, for as long as we’ve been in the business of business. There are theories, there are tests even, but leadership evolves and changes with the business culture and atmosphere of today….and tomorrow? As usual this is yet another aspect of business when what works today may not work tomorrow.

Leaders in various industries stand out to us…some are role models, others may have gotten that far by happenstance. Either way, people are beginning to mull this question over again so let’s take a thoughtful look into it. Often times we think of a boss or CEO as a good leader, or the obvious leader, but the ability to lead does not come with the highest ranking position. So what qualifies someone, in general, as a leader?

  1. Balance of positive versus negative. Is this a 50/50 percentage of good and bad? No. research has shown just one negative comment takes about five positive ones to counteract. This also applies to constructive criticism- lead with the good followed by constructive advice.
  2. Communicate effectively. Ask questions about how people perceive what you’ve communicated to them. Don’t assume that you are leader and everyone needs to learn your communication style. This also means co-workers communicating well with each other and within the organization you lead.
  3. Don’t be too busy…for anyone or anything. The problem with getting too busy is things begin to get overlooked. Maybe you forgot to tell an outstanding employee how good they did. Little things like that effect big things like performance.
  4. Always invest in people…clients and employees. People are your business no matter what business you’re in. In the age of Internet and lack of face to face encounters, one thing still remains, people are the face and voice of your business so make personal meeting and customer reviews a regular part of your business.
  5. Learn from mistakes. Sometimes it’s helpful learning from your competitior’s mistakes or another business, but you will always remember the mistakes you made so that is naturally great, and memorable, learning material. All CEO’s will confess to having to learn through some hard-earned whoops.