As posted on Fruitbowl 15th December 2010

A year in review By Ben Keehan / B2BNZ

I haven’t had much to blog about over the last few months so I thought I would save it up for this month.

This has been a huge year for me with many successful sales coming from referalls and new prospecting that I have done.

The door knocking that we did paid dividends but in retrospect I got better quality sales from the referrals that you all gave me , I really appreciate these valuable leads.

All of my new customers have benefitted financially from the savings we gave them in joining up. One particular Transport Company saved $4k over 4 mobiles by moving to our NZ Zone rate plan. This was a pretty compelling reason to move and great knowing we also gave him price certainty in this current climate.

A lot of people want to know if the new fibre loop will help to improve there business. As talked about in this mornings blog on Fruitbowl.  I see the future for us all depends on the ability to connect and door more with cloud based IT, VoIP . Fibre is a premium circuit and is available know if you are willing to pay the current market rates. ROI will come if you embrace the cloud and VoIP as these are generally far cheaper than traditional alternatives.

I Ben Keehan of B2BNZ pledge to you that we will be advocates for the cloud and VoIP communications. We have entered into a wholesale agreement with a national upstream provider and as of today we will be actively promoting the use of VoIP and SIP trunking to Local Business.

Compared to traditional telephone lines (PTSN) VoIP and SIP is far more cost effective with:

• 2000 local minutes included per line.
• 5 c National Tolls
• 5c to 30 Countries
• 25c to any mobile in NZ
• Voicemail to email per line
• Call transfer
• Caller ID with White Pages look up
• Call forward
• Remote Dial tone access from Mobile phones

We also are a Google Apps Reseller!

Going Google is an awesome way to save serious money on your IT expenditure. Google Apps provides each user with 25gb of storage and if your running Android Powered smart phones you will be able to do a full remote sync of Email, Contacts and Calendar while out and about.

Google Apps also provides Documents online with full collaboration so users in your group can all view and edit the same document in real time!

Our pricing is realistic with local phone support or on site if required. We provide all hardware sales , support and we can provide Flexirent for new product up to $20,000.00

Don’t worry about fibre yet, it will take at least 3-5 years before we actually have fibre to all doors.

If you require your own slice of the internet with an SLA give me a call so we can discuss your needs

I see 2011 as being the year that we all take the bulls by the horns and move with technology. A year of “First’s”  Did you know that HB will be one of the first areas in NZ to  have TVNZ radio network decommissioned and be on  digital broadcast only? This means we are part of a big picture project and I reckon we will be the first in the country to have some really cool toys launched by the likes of Vodafone and even XT.

Once again thanks for all the business this year and from my family and I, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year.

Thanks,

Ben Keehan

www.b2bnz.co.nz

06 9299940