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What Happens When Lightning Strikes?

Is your business ready for a devastating storm or other disaster?

At COMMWORLD, we know first–hand that storms can damage or destroy telecom equipment. Each Spring our technical staff responds to emergencies caused by storms.

If your telephone system is damaged or destroyed, will that put you out of business? What will your customers and prospects do if they call and you don't answer? If they're calling from down–the–street, maybe they'll understand because they're experiencing damage, too. But if they're calling from across town or beyond, will they call back? Will they call your competition instead?

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This "Super–Hero" Communications & Productivity Tool is an Effective Weapon in the War Against Recession!

The telephone is a powerful business tool and so is the PC. But what if you could combine the power and capabilities of the telephone with the PC to create a super–charged communications and productivity tool?

This Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) application may be just the weapon you need to win in this recession–plagued economy. Here are some of the amazing benefits of this powerful technology:

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Every Business Tells a Story – OneCoach Can Help You Tell Yours

It might begin as a sketch on a napkin. It could be passed down over generations, or purchased as a franchise. Regardless of how it starts, a small business embodies deeply held hopes and aspirations – it is the great purpose and extraordinary project of its' owner(s).

Recessions, highs and lows, setbacks and disappointments, reversals and triumphs are part of the growth of the business. And when that business finally succeeds, it disproves the critics and the doubters and delights the involved entrepreneurs.

What about a business that falls short of the owner's ideal? It's hard to give up on a dream. But something has to change if that business is to reach its potential. And owners cannot change their business without changing what they believe to be possible.

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We're Having a Spring Cleaning Sale!

We're cleaning up the warehouse and look what we found!

Quantities are limited, so call us today to take advantage of these first–quality items at bargain prices.

Desktop Digital Recording

Talk isn't cheap...What people say and how they say it is critical to the success of your business. Capture it all with Desktop Digital Recording.

Call recording can deliver real business benefits including:

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Taking Credit Cards

For your convenience, COMMWORLD of Kansas City is now accepting credit card payments. To pay your invoice with a credit card, just call give us a call.

Thank you for partnering with COMMWORLD. We appreciate your business.

Toshiba's Strata CIX Continues its Winning Streak

Toshiba's Strata CIX1200 IP system has won a 2008 Internet Telephony Magazine Product of the Year award. The award will be highlighted in the magazine's February issue. As written on tmc.com, "Recipients of the 11th Annual Product of the Year Awards represent the innovative new products ... INTERNET TELEPHONY is the premier publication covering the IP communications industry."

Questionable Quotes

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
–David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
–Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
–Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

Fun Phone Facts

Presidents and the Telephone

We've all heard that Barrack Obama is the first President to be an avid user of a Blackberry. But can you guess which President was the first to have a telephone installed in the White House?

On May 10, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes became the first American President to have a telephone installed in the White House in a special room called the "telegraph room". The first White House phone number was simply the number "one". In the early days of the telephone, lines were run directly from one point to another and the Treasury Department had the only direct phone line to the White House. Although President Hayes believed in the value and future of the telephone, he rarely received a call. It was over 50 years later when the first telephone was installed in the oval office during the administration of President Herbert Hoover.

Presidential telephone usage in more modern years has been captured in recordings. Tapes of Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and Richard Nixon were peppered with profanity and blunt criticism of political opponents. They spoke freely without presidential decorum, apparently assuming their words would never be heard by the general public. These uncensored conversations have provided insight into their personalities and their political maneuvers. It is also interesting to note that, in most cases, the person at the other end of the conversation had no knowledge that they were being recorded.

The National Archives and Records Administration has made public such Presidential recordings as John Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson during the build–up of U.S. troops in Vietnam. But Richard Nixon holds the record for more taped phone recordings than any other President. Those recordings led, in part, to his downfall. In 1973, investigators of the Watergate Break–in subpoenaed nearly 3700 hours of President Nixon's phone call recordings. Questions still remain about the famous 18 minutes of those Presidential recordings which mysteriously vanished.