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Send a referral to PriorityOne, a small to medium sized business owner, who has the need for our services, which includes hosted phone systems and high-speed internet. When your referral signs on for service from PriorityOne – you will receive a $100 VISA gift card, perfect for holiday shopping!*

Who is a good referral for PriorityOne?

• A business owner looking to save money on their costly or outdated phone system.
• A business owner who wants more control over features their phone system can provide.
• A business owner who can get in touch with support right away and not wait on hold
• A business owner who wants a reliable phone system supported by the internet.
• A business owner who has multiple business locations and needs a more seamless phone system to connect these locations.
• A business owner who has mobile workers and needs them to stay connected like those in the office.

Not sure how to describe what we do? Here are some ideas…

• PriorityOne provides hosted phone systems, also known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). Voice data is sent through the internet and is more cost effective and easy to manage than a traditional phone system. You are using our phone system right now!
• In addition to internet phone systems, we provide high-speed, affordable internet service for businesses.
• We help businesses implement reliable phone systems that are easy to manage, flexible and affordable.

Where do you send your referral once you have one?

• Send the name, company and phone number of your referral to: Kaitlin, Marketing  Coordinator, at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and someone from PriorityOne will follow up with that person.
• Give the referral our phone number and have them call 518-533-4480

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Visit www.priorityonenet.com for more information about PriorityOne

*Limit one gift card per person. Referral must sign up for PriorityOne’s VoIP or Internet Service and sale must be considered closed for participant to receive gift card. Business that is referred must have between 3-50 employees.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 16, 2012
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More and more business managers are saying goodbye to traditional landline phones and hello to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telecommunications systems these days.

Business leaders have realized VoIP service's many benefits, such as much more affordable domestic and international calling and the elimination of the need for in-house PBX hardware and related maintenance required for traditional telephony systems. In fact, 75% of all international calls are being made over the Internet.

The massive transition to this cost-effective technology is more than a trend; it's a glimpse into the future of business telephony. And, it's a money-making opportunity for VoIP service providers ... if they give customers what they want.

WhichVoIP, a company with expertise in VoIP and telecommunications services, recently surveyed current business VoIP customers about their needs and expectations from service providers.

When asked, "What items are the most important to your VoIP business service purchase decision," the responses were as follows:

Nearly 80% of those surveyed said the price of the service was an important consideration in their decisions to select VoIP instead of a traditional telephony system;

Slightly more than 60% of those surveyed said the value-added features and functionality --- offered with VoIP service at no extra charge --- appealed to them when considering VoIP in their business phone service purchasing decision;

Nearly 60% said "knowledge of sales staff";

Slightly more than 30% said "friendliness of the salesperson."

"This is real data from customers telling us what they would like from providers --- not only in terms of service, but also in terms of the sales process," Mike Bragg, CFO of WhichVoIP, said. "Business VoIP service providers who seek business customers can benefit greatly from the information our survey revealed."

For potential customers who are still skeptical about VoIP and its many useful features, service providers and their sales team should have other selling points ready to share in efforts to close the deal. Here is a couple:

Hosted VoIP phone systems involve a substantial cost savings by enabling a company's workers to make and receive calls via the Internet using a headset and microphone.

The VoIP system also enables calls to be directed to mobile devices, so company employees can conduct business while travelling or otherwise away from the office location.

WhichVoIP is a leading VoIP website that educates its viewers on the diverse offerings available in this developing technology, both to residential and business users, through articles, reviews, and blogs.

More About WhichVoIP

WhichVoIP.com is based in Seattle, Washington and the company consists of experts in the VoIP and telecommunications field. The team members utilize their expertise and knowledge to help consumers understand VoIP technology, and provide comprehensive information to enable consumers to make educated decisions that are appropriate to their needs

We would like to welcome Integral|One Network Solutions as a new partnering agent for PriorityOne Networks. We look forward to working together and combining our technology solutions.

About Integral One: Headquartered in Albany, NY, Integral|ONE is the premier Information Technology firm serving upstate New York. From small and medium businesses with a single location to enterprise and government organizations with thousands of users at many locations, clients have turned to us for leadership in designing and implementing solutions to their business objectives for over 20 years.

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Albany, NY 12205
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By John Moore
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Cost savings plus converged network efficiencies make an attractive case for IP telephony, even during a sluggish economy.

The benefits of Voice over Internet Protocol technology have long been known: lower equipment and maintenance costs and, by virtue of combining voice and data over a single network, simplified network management. Nonetheless, large enterprises have been slower to adopt the technology than small businesses.

In 2009, VoIP penetration among U.S. business was 42 percent, according to market research firm In-Stat. Industry experts say there are several reasons for the relatively slow adoption, especially among large businesses.

"Telephony has traditionally been held to a standard of five nines uptime — basically, 10 minutes of downtime per year — as well as having a very high level of voice quality," says Hyoun Park, telecom and unified communications research analyst at Aberdeen Group.

"There have been concerns in telecom departments about the ability to provide both of those metrics through Voice over IP," he says. "In addition, companies also worry about moving from a proprietary voice network that is particular to just carrying voice, to a converged network where voice becomes an application."

Making the Transition to VoIP

Large firms have also succumbed to the misconception that they must totally abandon current phone assets to adopt the new technology. Businesses with large telecom systems have made significant investments, so their turnover rate is likely to be much slower," says Jeff Ridley, director of product management at ShoreTel. And companies typically don't even start looking at VoIP until their circuit-switched Public Branch Exchange (PBX) system becomes cost prohibitive because of repairs and workarounds.

By Om Malik
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The very idea of what is a phone call is changing, and changing fast. What used to be a fixed phone turned into anywhere calling. Now Facebook, Google and Skype have made calls about video chat, friends and social circles, not phone numbers. It's perhaps time to rethink the very notion of a phone call and what defines the classic phone network.

Tom Evslin, who has spent his entire life in telecom and data services industries, believes it's time for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to come to grips with the reality that people are choosing cellular or Internet voice over traditional phone systems. He points to a recent report from the National Center for Health Statistics that notes that by 2018, only 6 percent of the U.S. population will be using the public switched telephone network (PSTN), which to non-telecom geeks means: your home phone from the phone company.

By Steven Ray
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Communication channels have long been employed as a means of conveying one's thoughts to others be it as a sound, a picture, writing ,or more recently as multimedia. No one can deny the importance of communications in the advancement of mankind - it is the extent of the capability of man to communicate his feelings, emotions, thoughts and more importantly knowledge to others that has allowed man to advance and stand out above all others. The rate of advancement and the rate of change are accelerating. In the current market economy, where business companies are in cut-throat competition with each other, it is the ability of a company to communicate its products and services effectively and efficiently that makes the difference between success and failure, and for some, life and death. For example, if a business company fails to represent its business model or services that it is offering to its customers, it can be easily surpassed by its competitors.

But the plethora of different communications channels comes at a heavy price - people are expected to be always "on", and to be able to juggle emails, phone calls from multiple sources, calendars, presentations, support documents and much more. The convergence of these communication channels onto integrated platforms has become the mantra of well-connected corporate - and this is being managed through digital platforms that integrate these various channels and other support systems that a company may use. The integration of voice into this converged platform is being managed using latest generation VoIP systems - Voice over Internet, or more specifically Voice over Internet Protocol, which now allows companies to provide enhanced and intelligent voice systems, and to channel their email, voice and documents over the same systems and the same channels.