by Telecommedic | Jun 25, 2015 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Calling All Agents, Cloud, Cloud PBX, Dark Fiber, Data Networks, EoC, Ethernet, Fast E, Fiber, Gig E, High Speed Internet, Hosted PBX, Internet, Lines from Leutzy, MPLS, TelecomMedic, Telecommunications, Uncategorized
Why is so hard to pick up the phone? We have moved into a world where everyone wants to communicate via email and no one wants to pick up the phone. Maybe I am just “old school” but that does not seem to work most of the time. I recently went back and forth with...
by Telecommedic | May 20, 2015 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Calling All Agents, Cloud, Cloud PBX, Dark Fiber, Data Networks, EoC, Ethernet, Fast E, Fiber, General, Gig E, High Speed Internet, Hosted PBX, Internet, Lines from Leutzy, MPLS, Octopus Effect, Sub Agent, Telecom, TelecomMedic, Telecommunications, Uncategorized, VARs
Dark and Lit Fiber – How much do you know? Many of us have seen the 60 Minutes interview with Michael Lewis the Author of “Flash Boys.” Some of us have read the book, and many out there have no idea what the whole High Frequency Trading thing is all about. I am...
by Telecommedic | Apr 20, 2015 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Calling All Agents, Cloud, Cloud PBX, Commissions, Dark Fiber, Direct Representatives, Direct Reps, EoC, Ethernet, Fast E, Fiber, Gig E, High Speed Internet, Hosted PBX, Internet, Lines from Leutzy, MPLS, Telecom, TelecomMedic, Telecommunications, Uncategorized
Watch out for the money grab! Customers, please please please make sure you look over your first bill from any Vendor. As a matter of fact, please send them to TelecomMedic to check out. While I am at it check every bill that is more than 5% off the norm. The...
by Telecommedic | Feb 17, 2015 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Cloud, Cloud PBX, EoC, Ethernet, Fiber, General, High Speed Internet, Hosted PBX, Internet, Lines from Leutzy, MPLS, TelecomMedic, Uncategorized
Time to embrace VoIP! Most of you know that I started my career in telecommunications selling phone systems. Because of this, it took me some time to embrace the Hosted/Cloud PBX. In the early days of the product it did not work well and the early providers did not...
by Telecommedic | Jan 8, 2015 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Calling All Agents, Dark Fiber, Direct Representatives, Direct Reps, Fiber, General, Lines from Leutzy, Master Agencies, Master Agency, Partners, Telecom, TelecomMedic, Telecommunications, Uncategorized, VARs
What to do with lazy reps? A while ago I wrote a blog asking “Who is the customer?” In our world of the Indirect Channel it works like this… I go find a customer. I give my customer pricing for 3 or 4 different Vendors. My customer decides who they...
by Telecommedic | Feb 4, 2014 | Agents, Bill Leutzinger, Commissions, Dark Fiber, Data Networks, Direct Representatives, Direct Reps, EoC, Ethernet, Fast E, Fiber, General, Gig E, High Speed Internet, Internet, Master Agencies, Master Agency, MPLS, Partners, quota, Sub Agent, Telecom, TelecomMedic, Telecommunications
Have you ever sat back and wondered who exactly is the customer in the Vendor/Agent/Client model? Let’s break this down into what I think is very simple. We have an End Consumer, an Indirect Agent and a Vendor. The Agent’s world consists of bringing the Vendor and...
