We like it when a company puts it all in perspective in rather easily-graspable terms, as VoIP solutions provider Teo recently did in blog stating, “You’d never go to a doctor for a haircut, so why would you trust your unified communications needs to a company whose major focus is business software, networking equipment or, really, anything but UC?”
It’s a good question and no, we wouldn’t go to a doctor for a haircut. But we would go to our neighborhood barber, since, like Teo, he has experience. Buzz Jones has 30 years’ experience cutting a little off the top and sides while talking about his latest fishing stories, and Teo has 30 years’ experience providing trusted telecommunications to business.Both know their business, it’s their bread and butter. Having seen fads come and go and new ideas either fly or flop, both know what it takes to be successful.
“In an effort to provide the best communications to our customers, we’re constantly innovating and evolving in order to be the best telecommunications provider that we can be,” Teo officials say, adding that unlike large tech companies that are weighed down by “complicated approval processes and long time-to-market cycles,” Teo is “constantly adding new features and capabilities to our UC solution suite.”
Shifting into a higher-gear metaphor, Teo officials say that, thanks to years of experience, “We’ve now been able to engineer the Ferrari of unified communications at Chevy prices.”
They’re also careful to note that you can find guys selling UC who are not UC specialists, including a little software company out of Redmond, Washington named Microsoft (News - Alert), “whose primary business is not telecommunications, “Teo lives and breathes it.” Then Teo gets downright unfair…“I’m sure we don’t have to remind you what happens when a software company tries to work outside its expertise – remember how successful the Zune was?”
Hey, at least Buzz can do a mullet.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.Edited by Jamie Epstein