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Industry Experience – The Aligned Communications team possesses VP level channel sales experience from the carrier side and combines that with the DNA of one of the largest independent telecom resellers in the industry. Aligned Communications is also a Charter Member of the Technology Channel Association (www.TCAsite.org), the industry association that best represents the needs of telecom agents to carriers.
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Flexible Commissions – You can choose from a one-time lump sum payment after installation, or a residual income model on a deal by deal basis. This gives you the flexibility to choose the income stream that fits best with your current business needs. Need Capital? – Choose upfront payments! Prefer an Annuity? – Choose the residual income stream!
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Higher, Guaranteed Commissions with No Quotas– Aligned Communications will guarantee you a higher base commission than going direct with the carrier, with no sliding scale. This means you will know exactly what you will make when you sign up a customer, with no sales quota requirements.
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Evergreen Commissions – As long as the customer pays their bill with the provider, you get paid.
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Accurate Commissions – Aligned Communications has an industry leading back office that allows agents easy access to their commissions via a web portal. Aligned takes care of reconciling commissions with the carrier each month, insuring you are paid every dollar you have earned.
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Renewal Reminders and Assistance – Aligned Communications’ back office allows you to get reminders as your customers come up for renewal. The best way to make sure those customers involve you in their telecom decisions is to engage them prior to contract expiration. Our system makes it easy for you to know when this will occur. This insures that you keep getting residual checks, well after the original sale.
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Training – Our carriers have well developed agent training curriculum. Aligned Communications realizes the value in a well trained sales force, so we make sure you know about all upcoming training events for the carriers we sponsor. Aligned also teaches clinics that show you how to combine your services with a carrier’s to maximize the wallet share you get from your customers.
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Technical Sales Support – Our technical team works with you and the carriers’ sales engineers to make sense of complicated phone bills and/or network designs. With an additional layer of support, you are able to turn around quotes and sell to your customers more quickly.
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Marketing Plans – Aligned Communications is experienced in marketing to the SMB. As a master agent, we have access to the carriers with the best channel marketing resources in the industry. Aligned will analyze your current marketing model and identify which of the carriers’ tools best fit into how you do business today. Aligned Communications can show you how to integrate all of the marketing tools at your disposal to touch more of your customer base.
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Agent Web Portal – Aligned Communications’ agent portal agent portal ties all aspects of the carrier’s business to your business of selling. From reminders about upcoming trainings, to order tracking, commission statements, renewal assistance, and contact and funnel management. Let our back office make it easy for you to sell more telecom.