Awards Anyone?

Man - this past month has reallly kept me and the marketing department busy. Trying to keep up with the torrent of press releases I've had to put out has pushed me to my limit, but I'm more than happy to do it.

Some of the recent awards Telarus has won includes:

• 2008 Telecom Assocation Member's Choice Award Winner to Top Master Agent
• 2008 VAR Business Magazine Gold 5-Star Award
• 2008 Top Agent - Covad Communications
• 2008 Top Agent - Nuvox Communications
• 2008 Top Agent - Telnes Communications
• 2008 Top Agent - MegaPath
• 2008 AT&T Circle of Excellence Award Winner
• 2008 XO Communications Club MVP
• 2008 ACC Business Platinum Cup (4th consecutive year)

To put it mildly, we had a lot of momentum this year going into our annual Telarus agent conference and PHONE+ Channel Partner Show in Las Vegas 2 weeks ago. We even exhibited for the first time! Here are some pictures from the show!



The Telarus booth where we gave live demos of the back office and GeoQuote.



The Telarus team at our "pre-game" meal on Sunday night. The top row is: Pam Simon (AT&T/Qwest specialist), Thomas Hernandez (Channel Manager), Mike Gottwalt (Channel Manager), Daniel Pentecost (System Admin), me, Carole Calderon (Internal VAR Manager), Adam, Robert Butler (Director of VAR Network), Andrew Morgan (VP of Web Development). The bottom row is: Jessica Martin (Business Administrator), Aaron Jay Lieberman (Cold Fusion/PHP/SQL Programmer), James Knight (Channel Manager), Lance Akins (VP of Sales), and Chris Reynes (GeoQuote Specialist)

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Telarus agents after the annual Telarus Agent Conference on Monday, March 10, 2008. The conference was sponsored by Cavalier Telephone and XO Communications - both of which did a fantastic job. We were blessed to have such great sponsors!

Adam (blue shirt) receives the ACC Business platinum cup award (for the 4th consecutive year). Every agent you see to the right of him did less volume than Telarus. There were only two other masters in the country that did more ACC business than us, and one of them is actually two masters sharing the same contract! (Microcorp and X4!)

Overall, we've never had more momentum than now. Following up on all of the many leads we've received in the past few weeks will be ulta-critical to our success. We know that we've got a winning formula - we just have to tell more poeple about it!