Soprano Emily Black, 15, and baritone Tom MacDonald, performing Christmas duets and sing-a-longs outdoors at the Port Moidy Square 4pm-5pm for the cross Canada CP Holiday Train arrival with Juno award guest Valdy. Free food and drinks and huge bonfire. @tmsitweet.

Top 10 Internet Marketing Game Changers of 2011
TMSI is employing these trends. Especially the last trend which to my b to b is or should be number one.
Techwyse writes; 
When 2011 began, we fought to get our clients listed with Google Places. This was just the start of a very busy year for the Internet marketing industry. As 2011 comes to a close, we reflect on how our roles have changed in the fast-paced nature of the Internet. We wanted to take the time to summarize the top 10 game changers of this past year. These trends are sure to continue in 2012 and with that we present:

  1. Social Search
Social Media used to be all about maintaining friendships but now these connections can change the way your browser views search results. If you're signed into your Google account, Social Search has the ability to gather relevant data based on the reviews, blogs, images and more about what you and your mutual friends are viewing and discussing.
     
     
  2. Google +1 Button and the Google+ Network
The Google +1 feature allows users to tell searchers which web pages they like, and needless to say, using this feature can give your website a boost in search rankings.
     
     
  3. Google Panda / Freshness Algorithm Update
The Google Panda and Freshness update means that websites with original recent and relevant content will be given a priority in the Google search engine.
     
     
  4. Facebook Likes in Bing Search Results
Bing knows that search engine users trust their friends and family, and are now offering personalized search results, based on which websites their friends have "liked" on Facebook.
     
     
  5. Interactive Social Advertising
The ads are "interactive" because they involve a mutual action taking place between the promoter and the customer. This includes ads that are designed as polls, Flash presentations, surveys or any advertisement that will get your target market engaged.
     
     
  6. Remarketing
Remarketing displays ads to people that have already visited your website. It allows businesses to communicate with potential customers in a powerful new way, matching the right market with the right message.
     
     
  7. Mobile and Apps Skyrocketing
Consumers are using their mobile devices for everything from shopping to banking, and most companies are considering releasing a mobile site, if they haven't already.
     
     
  8. Ad Extensions on Pay Per Click
This new PPC feature works toward a stronger connection between PPC ads and the visitor by sending consumers to specific landing pages, allowing the lead to call the business directly with a single click, and enabling contact forms right from the PPC ad.
     
     
  9. HTML 5
With HTML 5, (Hyper Text Markup Language) site designers will have more flexibility to create interactive websites and powerful and efficient applications including: managing data, drawing, video and audio and providing websites that deliver what users want better and faster. It has already allowed developers to create cross-browser, web-based applications for portable devices.
     
     
 
10. Video Marketing
2011 saw a huge leap in the number of businesses that are supplementing their advertising strategy with video marketing. This advertising method has the ability to accurately demonstrate how a product works, and provides an "on-demand" quality that appeals to many customers, more than a wall of text.

2011 has proven to be a huge year for Internet development and by staying on the leading-edge of trends; your business has the advantage in this fast-paced digital marketplace.

     

The first Christmas luncheon performance by Emily Black and myself with a hit yesterday and we have two more performances today before the CP holiday train on December 17 which we're looking forward to!

Dateline VANCOUVER BC
Flexlines remains untouched by the latest ruling involving the CRTC and usage based billing of Internet access.
http://ping.fm/GKn5d

With snow on the way, watch the mad rush to Canadian Tire begin...! @tmsiTweet

DATELINE: Vancouver, BC

A 2007 statistics Canada study found that 40% of businesses in Canada had their own website and just 7% of small businesses sell online . My company telephony managed solutions has improved its online strategy and added over $120,000 to its annual revenue in the last nine months and I can help you.

We're not just a telecommunications company- we're a Communications company.
Warmly;

Tom Mac Donald,
Owner Telephony Managed Solutions.
c.  604.720.8102
d.  604.571.6405
f.   604.571.6455
e.  tmacdonald@tmsi.ca
w.  www.tmsi.ca  

Treat this e-mail as privileged and/or confidential, not to be shared, without permission, delete if not intended for you.

DATE LINE VANCOUVER BC:

TMSI lowers Telecom Costs for Small Businesses using business telephone or Voip systems.

Lower Lease Rates to Help You Close More Deals

As the end of the calendar year draws closer, sales financing becomes a critical tool for equipment reps looking to achieve sales targets. Prospects that are long on need but short on budget may still be able to complete an order with the help of our programs, making it possible to book additional business more quickly.


There are certain scenarios we tend to see more often at this time of year and, in each case, sales reps are using sales financing creatively to provide a viable solution for their customers. They're helping their clients move forward with positive business improvements and, in the process, booking orders that wouldn't be possible otherwise. One common example is divisions of larger organizations that have capital available, but not enough to purchase the new equipment they've been considering. They risk losing their budget amount if they don't spend it by year-end, and this may make them open to doing a capital lease. We can structure the first payment to use up their remaining budget for this year, and they can allocate budget amounts from next year or the next several years to take care of the remaining lease obligation. This strategy can be a very effective closing tool, particularly in situations where the prospect also faces a price increase in the following year.


Whatever scenario you're facing, our sales financing plans can be used to make your proposals more compelling. Whether it's by showing growing businesses an alternative to using their limited working capital, or comparing monthly payments against anticipated expense reductions to cost-justify your solution. The key is to present a monthly payment option with every proposal, and have a frank conversation with the prospect about how they plan to pay for the solution you're discussing.


Reduced delinquencies and a lower cost of funds have made it possible for us to reduce our rate factors this month. This creates a good excuse to refresh proposals that may have stalled and open a dialogue about budgets with your prospects. Let them know you are sending a revised proposal that includes lower monthly payments. Ask them how they were planning to pay for the equipment you've been discussing and if they already have budget set aside for the purchase. Learn as much as you can about their decision process and try to determine if a creative payment solution might be all that's needed for them to green-light an order.


Feel free to call me and discuss these and other ideas for using sales financing strategies to close more business before the end of the year.


Why Businesses Lease

Reason #7: Leasing Helps With Planned Asset Management

Progressive firms recognize there's a hidden cost to operating older assets beyond their optimal performance lifecycle. Upgrading regularly to more technologically-advanced equipment can increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and help companies maintain a competitive advantage.


Some businesses prefer to lease certain assets because it keeps them at the leading edge of technology for their industry. Each lease is for a defined period and at the end of the term they're forced to choose between keeping the old equipment or upgrading to a newer version. The ability to get the most advanced equipment simply by agreeing to a new lease means there's less temptation to defer an upgrade in favor of conserving working capital.


For companies that lack the time and resources to develop a formal asset management program, Westport's leasing plans provide a structured alternative to help keep them disciplined and assist with long-term budgeting. We also serve as an administrative resource, holding detailed records readily available for each piece of leased equipment.


If the products you're selling are regularly replaced by new and improved models, our leasing plans may be the best solution for many of your clients. It will help them stay current and will also help you build a base of routine repeat customers. We're happy to discuss ways to present this concept, so contact us if you have any questions.


Take Advantage of Section 179 Deductions Available to Your USA Customers


If you're a manufacturer or distributor selling to clients in the USA, then you should be aware that these economic stimulus tax incentives are about to expire. Qualified businesses can still claim up to 100% of the acquisition costs for new equipment as a tax-deductible expense, but only if they add the new equipment before December 31st, 2011. Targeted at smaller enterprises, this incentive program usually generates a flurry of economic activity in the last quarter of the year as companies scramble to use up any remaining allowance. Westport provides special financing structures so clients who wouldn't otherwise have the necessary capital can still participate in this program. This is a great opportunity if you have American customers and, if you're not familiar with all the details, you're welcome to contact us for more information.


October's Smart Sales Tip

Around this time of year, many manufacturers release their price lists for next year's models. If you're expecting price increases on any of your equipment lines in the New Year, use that as incentive for your clients to act now.


It's generally a good idea to notify customers that prices are going up, but you'll gain even more traction when you show them how they might benefit by doing a short-term lease before the new prices come into effect. Our lease plans will allow them to overcome any budget restriction so they can get your equipment sooner. With the upgrade likely to result in operational efficiencies and cost savings, there will be a financial reward for doing so now rather than later. But the real point to make is that the difference between the future price and today's price subsidizes any perceived extra cost for leasing. In effect, acting today pays down the cost to lease. It's a simple strategy that may help you shorten the sales cycle on some of your deals.

Dateline: Vancouver, BC September 24th,2011

Who could believe that a local pub had to sell 2,333 more pints of beer a year? Just to cover the wasted money going to Telus every month for services they didn't even have!
A simple call to me from their manager ended a cash drain that lasted since 1985! And they didn't even realize it. Now with flexlines and a new phone system going in next month, beer profits will be pouring into their bank account and not Telus.

Dateline: Vancouver BC
While RIM is not another Nortel- there is no suffocating debt- management is seeing their company pull a Thelma and Louise. Wow how fast things change.

Dateline: Vancouver, BC
September 19,2010

As most businesses are under 20 employees in Canada, and a greater number of those in the 1-5 person category, it's not surprising that large business finds a great percentage of their revenue stream comes this sector. The many supporting the few. Though it is interesting to note that technology has allowed better, more competitive services to be offered by smaller businesses. Business Telecommunications is a good example. TMSI returning millions to small businesses by delivering a better service for less. www.tmsi.ca

It seems that this is tough all around out there.
Another one of my customers is up for renewal on a three year contract for their telephone lines at just over $500 a month. The phone company wants to renew them for another three years and guess what, no rate reduction! So my client asks me to do a flex audit and we reduced their line cost by 47%! I wish I could get the word out to more businesses faster.

Why your next Disaster may be your last.

During catastrophic events like earthquakes or tsunamis, telecommunications service often fails as a result of overwhelming demand, infrastructure collapse or power failures. But ImpreMedia, the nation's leading Hispanic media company, did not lose connectivity during a recent earthquake near its Los Angeles office.
Bob Mason, CTO, attributes ImpreMedia's ability to emerge from the earthquake scratch-free, technologically speaking, to the company's implementation of Avaya's IP Office solution. The hybrid system, Mason says, gives ImpreMedia the "best of both worlds" solution it needs -- the benefits of IP telephony and unified communications with the redundancy to keep the entire network afloat in the event of a natural disaster.
ImpreMedia evaluated many vendor solutions, from traditional phone systems to 100% VoIP implementations, and found that IP Office provided the unique hybrid system that served its needs perfectly. "If the wide area network were to fail between locales, the system would continue to operate," Mason said. "It provides survivability within a multi-site organization."
ImpreMedia is indeed geographically dispersed, with offices not only in Los Angeles but in Chicago and New York City, a setup that added to the necessity of employing a communications solution with call center capability that was cost-effective yet easy to monitor and manage. With Avaya's IP Office solution configured by Converged Communication Systems, ImpreMedia is able to centrally host all of its unified communications technologies from the corporate office. Having a centrally located solution allows implementation of corporate standards that drive costs down and provide ease of use for employees.
"We also needed to find a system that fit our market scale," Mason said. "We struggled to find a system with enterprise services for SMBs that also had an attractive price point and true unified communications capabilities."
The company was not just looking inward to alleviate communications problems; it wanted to find a way to improve customer service and interactions across the board. The call center capabilities of the IP Office solution provided just that -- ease of use for call center employees and better customer service capabilities. ImpreMedia's call center now has greater visibility, and managers can analyze performance data in real time, providing immediate solutions should any problems arise. In monitoring the number of dead and lost calls in the call center, Mason noted that the number of such calls has decreased to almost zero.
ImpreMedia also wanted key employees to be productive while mobile or remote. Now, employees with Avaya IP phones can have their incoming calls routed directly to their mobile devices if they choose, and they can transfer calls back to their desk phones when they return to the office. These capabilities have ensured that customer service standards do not suffer just because an employee is away from his desk.
In simplifying its communications, ImpreMedia has received tremendously positive feedback from employees, who laud the system's ease of use. Managers can also remotely monitor call traffic and appropriately allocate work to employees.
"We are now able to make more intelligent decisions regarding how many agents should be involved on inbound and outbound calls," Mason said. "Our managers now have access to accurate intelligence data in real time, allowing us to more efficiently allocate our resources."
For ImpreMedia, implementing Avaya's IP Office provided a solution that is not only safe but reliable. The company enjoys all the benefits of IP telephony -- such as four-digit calling, call transfer and SIP trunking -- but with the added stability of a hybrid system. Since implementing the solution, ImpreMedia has improved its customer service capabilities and increased employee productivity across the board. The company has also managed to reap a multitude of benefits while adhering to its budget.
Mason concluded: "If you find a solution that is reasonably priced and improves your customer service capabilities -- well, that just says it all."

Hybrid IP telephony solution essential to network disaster recovery

SearchUnifiedCommunications.com

FORWARD BY TOM MACDONALD, TMSI VANCOUVER BC

I would also add that ACTIVE disaster recovery is what we can do very well indeed.  We set up our clients in such a way that should the "last mile" of the client's connection fail for any reason, our NOC detects the failure point and activates an automatic re-routing of all inbound calls to a client designation point.  It could be a voicemail box, or another branch office. It could be our own answering services or a users mobile phone.

Why your next disaster may be your last http://ping.fm/oQ0Vy

Dateline vancouver, bc
Business owners always are looking for ways to lower operating costs. Telecom is a big one to reduce but without reducing the resources effectiveness. They don't know how to do.

But we do.

We are lowering businesses telecom line costs by 30-50% per month routinely.

Its not easy for us- but we made it easy for business. Just call me (Tom) for a FlexAudit of your business phone bill.

When is the last time THAT happened? Probably never.

Is it too early to start lowering telecom costs?

Find out what one business manager thought.

Www.tmsi.ca

Have you heard about our iphone business line app? iFlexCall!

Dateline: Vancouver, BC. TMSI.
Great Article that shows a new Paradigm shift in Telecom Technology....again.
http://ping.fm/wQMzy

Date line Vancouver British Columbia Canada

Dateline: Vancouver, BC
TMSI has succeeded in working inside Google's SEO playbook. We are now top ranked on the first page of Google with our desired geo-location and keywords of business phone systems and Nortel service and repair! Now the refining and testing begins.

Really? Do businesses want to dump the desk phone for a softphone?
Michael Brandenburg, Technical Editor for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com writes. "Plenty of vendors tell unified communications managers that it's time to throw their wired desk phones in the trash, whether it's Microsoft and IBM pushing softphone applications on laptops or mobile carriers advocating smartphones. Ditching the desk phone is tempting, but is anyone really doing it?"

"Although our desktops are stable, I don't think we're ready to take the leap to having both voice and data on one device, except in specific applications like road warriors," said Steve Brescia, manager of ITS enterprise architecture for New Jersey-based American Water.

Check out out response at www.tmsi.ca

Fuel is rising, food, energy! All going up. My Company has continually lowered costs! How? For over 3 years-90% of our client base has been digitally accessible, resulting in 70% less physical sites visits! Less fuel, lower costs.
We help Nortel system users attain this level of Flex-ability
Tom. 604.571.6405

"It's not state-of-the-art it's state of the heart." My industry high technology telecommunications requires a good story to be told to reach people. A compelling story that teaches people how to communicate better, faster, cheaper and how to work with companies like mine to make that story their story too. Tom

We just successfully completed another installation of flexlines for client in Whistler. Garibaldi Mortgage company in Whistler helps puts clients together with homes through providing cost-effective mortgages.
Communications was paramount for Doug and Carrollyn and their Phone Bill reflected that before we came along. TMSi Telephony Managed Solutions analyzed their phone bill and determined that we could reduce their telecommunications cost in the order of $15,000 or more per year very easily and without losing their phone numbers.

Garibaldi mortgage was one of our first companies in Whistler so it did take a while for us to build the infrastructure to accommodate this company. But now the road has been paid to save additional companies in Whistler including many of our customers already there even more money on their telecommunications costs.

How come we're not saving YOU money?

It appears as if metering the Internet in Canada is temporarily on hold!
Enough people registered their complaint against this strategy by the large Internet service providers and we're successful for the time being Well done Canada!

The economy has started to grow again! But not everybody's enjoying the success in our era, did you get left behind in this new economy? If you did and you're looking to save money. Please visit our website and save tens of thousands of dollars like dozens of our customers have already on their business telephone lines
Www.flexlines.ca

With the economy starting to improve it's really important if you're adding Telephone lines ,contact us first and order flexlines but more importantly whatever you do don't find him all day your contract with the phone company because you're tied in to higher rates

Visit flexlines.ca

ANOTHER CHANCE TO SAVE THE INTERNET

 The CRTC just announced they will reexamine metered billing practices. They are seeking public input right now! This is a huge opportunity to stop Internet metering, and to ensure Canadians have access to an unlimited Internet.

Please take a moment to send the CRTC a message here: http://openmedia.ca/crtc

OpenMedia.ca asked Canadians to send Ottawa a message about Internet metering, and wow did you ever respond – over 420,000 signed the petition!

The CRTC's move to review the imposition of billing practices through a public process is in direct response to our petition - they even cited the "public outcry". 

At the same time, we all know a Big Telecom-friendly compromise is being pushed behind closed doors.  To avoid another industry crafted solution we urgently need to send a message to the CRTC HERE.

We must sway the CRTC now to make our previous victories stick. If we don't convince the CRTC, all could be lost - all Internet users could face a metered Internet and pay up $4 per gigabyte! 

We’ve already moved politics in Canada and made it easy for politicians to champion the Internet. Let’s force the CRTC to do the same. 

http://openmedia.ca/crtc

We’ve come this far, let’s not stop now, 

~ The OpenMedia.ca team

Support this campaign by making a small donation to our Stop the Meter Fund at: http://openmedia.ca/drive (this donation will cost you a lot less than UBB)

SOURCES:

Strombo Talks Internet Metering

http://openmedia.ca/strombo

Vancouver Sun - How B.C. activists fought off the Internet billing plan

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/activists+fought+Internet+billing+plan/4222362/story.html

Georgia Straight - Geek Speak: Lindsey Pinto, OpenMedia.ca

http://www.straight.com/article-373231/vancouver/geek-speak-lindsey-pinto-openmediaca

Globe And Mail - A metered Internet is a regulatory failure

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-metered-internet-is-a-regulatory-failure/article1881250

Canadians Just Became World's Biggest Internet Losers

http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2011/01/26/InternetLosers/

TorrentFreak - Massive Protest Against Canadian Bandwidth Caps

http://torrentfreak.com/canadian-bandwidth-caps-110131/

CBC Visits OpenMedia.ca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZSq5Gh0uo8

 OpenMedia.ca

You have received this message through your subscription to an OpenMedia e-mail list.
If you did not subscribe or would like to unsubscribe click here.

Like Don McLean's famous song the day the music died yesterday was the day the Internet died in Canada

Well it's 2011. Once again there will be more heartache and happiness than one can imagine in the next 12 months.

FlexPost DateLine: Vancouver,BC
One of my resolutions for sure is to return at least $150,000 this year to small business bank accounts this year. At the expense of BIG business bank accounts.

Do not weep for them. Here is why. www.tmsi.ca