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Toshiba and COMMWORLD Present:

According to surveys by KPMG and Robbins-Gioia Consulting, over 61% of IT projects like VoIP are failures and 40% fail to achieve their business case within one year.

Business owners, managers and executives MUST understand the benefits and challenges of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and the critical importance of selecting the right vendor/partner or your company will be at risk.

"Are You Ready for an IP World?"

Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008

An Informative Seminar presented by COMMWORLD and Toshiba on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. Choose from a morning or afternoon session, but seating is limited. Register today »

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Is Your Business Ready for a Disaster?

The U.S. Congress has declared June 2008 as National Safety Month

The weather in the Midwest is unpredictable, extreme and destructive. You can't stop Mother Nature, but you can take precautions to protect your business.

Simple tips to protect your phone system, voice mail and your business.

• Battery Backup or a UPS (uninterruptible power supply)
• Current Programming Backup
• Remote Change of Greeting
• Remote Re-route of Calls
• Emergency Mailbox
• Partner Protection Plan
• Read More »

Partner Protection Plan Members enjoy a list of benefits including priority service and guaranteed service response time with no expidite fees. Call us at 816-763-1100 for details on the benefits and discounts included. Join by July 31st and we'll include a free Disaster Protection Plan for your business.

Meet Ms. Joanne Dixson - a very friendly, familiar voice at COMMWORLD.

Joanne is our Lead Dispatcher / Customer Service Representative. Her desk is the heartbeat of COMMWORLD as she schedules and coordinates service orders, installations and the technical staff to complete each job on time.

During more than 16 years at COMMWORLD, Joanne has learned how to translate a customer's plain English description of what they need into technical terms and back into English again. She is able to solve issues quickly over the phone before they escalate into bigger problems. Even though they might not recognize her face, many clients ask for Joanne by name because they have come to trust her calm, efficient, yet friendly customer care. They know she will make sure every job gets done right and on time.

Joanne knows a lot about phones and the telecommunications industry. But if you really want to strike up a conversation with her, just ask her about stock car racing, go-cart racing or NASCAR. Maybe all that jockeying for position by race car drivers has helped Joanne hone her dispatch skills where she has to continually "jockey" jobs to meet our customer's ever-changing needs and schedules. Whatever the correlation is...we know Joanne gets the checkered flag on our team!

Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program (HEMP)

HEMP is a three year mentoring program for business owners who want to improve their leadership skills and grow their business. Each year HEMP accepts applications for membership. The selection committee goes though a rigorous process to determine who will be included in the new class of mentees. Bob and Linda Bennett, owners of COMMWORLD of Kansas City, are proud to be one of only nine companies selected in 2005.

Criteria for Mentees include:

• Own a majority of the business
• Over $1 million in annual revenues
• Desire to grow the business
• Minimum of five employees
• Integrity as a business owner
• Commitment to be actively involved in HEMP

If you would like to be considered for the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program, send an email to info@commworld-kc.com to request an application. Include the following: applicant's name, business name, mailing address, email and phone number.

Phone facts...The Times They Are A Changin'

1889 - The coin operated payphone was invented by William Gray, who installed the first one in a Hartford, Connecticut bank. Necessity was the mother of invention: Gray wanted to call his sick wife at home one day, but his foreman refused, even though Gray offered to pay for the call. So Gray devised a telephone that anyone could use at any time as long as they had change.

The first telephone booths were made of carved oak and sometimes had draperies. In hotels, people would stand in front of them and wait, thinking they were elevators. In restaurants they were sometimes mistaken for public restrooms, with disturbing results.

Today, phone booths are everywhere. There are 2 million in the United States alone: atop Pikes Peak, on many commercial airliners, at the White House, in the middle of Death Valley, and on the Empress Lily Paddleboat on Pleasure Island in Disney World.

And where would Clark Kent be without it? He first used a phone booth to change into Superman in a 1949 issue of D.C. Comics.

The above passage was written by William Ecenbarger in December of 1990.

The times they are a changin' for in less than 18 years the landscape of telephony technology has nearly eradicated the pay phone. What had existed since 1889 is rapidly becoming a memory.

Join COMMWORLD's Current Technology Assurance Plan (CTAP) and never worry about your newly purchased telephony technology becoming an instant memory.