Shortening Your Sales Pipeline: Why Shorter Is Better (For Once)

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Sales pipelines are a crucial element of any business that sells products or services — which is most businesses. Some use simple spreadsheets, while others use sales enablement apps to help them gain leads and manage the process. However, far too many businesses find the sales process to be too long. Here’s why.

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Starting a Business Partnership Checklist: Plan for Success

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Forming a partnership with a vendor can be a daunting task. It’s not just about picking a product, signing a contract and reaching out only when there are issues, you need to choose a company that you can work closely with. Someone who you can build a partnership with that moves beyond simple transactions and encourages you both to build a strategy together. So while there are many benefits to becoming a partner in a business, you need to inspect each prospect carefully before making any commitments.

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Women In Tech: Quality In Connections Drive LOQEX Trio

Three women from LOQEX
As part of our Women in Tech segments, we generally talk to only one person in a company. Today, we had the opportunity to have a round table discussion with the team at LOQEX, a Wildix partner located in the UK but serving business needs around the world. Shelley Banks (Operations Manager), Farah Nazir-Chapman (Head of Business Strategy) and Joanna Palmer (Financial Director) joined us to have a chat about their perspectives on being women in the communications industry.

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Sharpen Your Skills With These Online Courses for MSPs

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Your business is built on what you know. From the services you provide to being sales savvy, your knowledge is an intrinsic part of your offer, distinguishing you from your competition. But it can be hard to set aside the time for training, or in some cases even find a course that is suited to your needs as a system integrator or managed service provider (MSP) when you’re already mired in the busy work of running your own business.

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Wildix vs. Microsoft Teams

Wildix vs. Microsoft Teams
To most business owners considering a business communications system, more likely than not a leading candidate is Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft is a powerhouse, and businesses that use a Microsoft suite of tools may even be using Teams already. Unsurprisingly, Teams is designed to integrate seamlessly with other Microsoft products, especially the Office 365 lineup. As a result, plenty of organizations see it as a natural fit for their communications needs — if Teams hasn’t been pre-loaded into their system already.

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