For the past two years, the SimpleSignal team in the Denver office has teamed up with ADVODA, one of our valued channel partners, to make an impact in their local community.

This year – Michael Sterl, Aric Applefield, Jeff Sexton and Scott Davidson showed their philanthropic side once more and helped ADVODA and other partners fill a military truck with toys for the Toys for Tots campaign. This year, through donations from customers and partners, ADVODA gave six teams of participants $700 per team to spend on toys for the campaign. Using discount cards and coupons, team members competed to get the most out of their spending. One team even had a Target employee on their team – giving them a 10% discount at Target!

“We have been supporting the Toys for Tots program in Colorado for seven years,” said Ron Dunworth, Managing Partner of ADVODA. “Thanks to the SimpleSignal team and their generous contribution, we were able to fill the back of a very large military truck with toys and games for the children of Colorado.”

Some team members chipped in at the last minute to get even more toys. The pizza delivery employee that brought food to the team members even donated $17 for the purchase of toys. At the end of the evening, members of the Marine Corps and ADVODA Toys for Tots partners helped load up the back of the truck with over $5,000 worth of gifts.

Way to go, SimpleSignal and ADVODA!

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Wesbell Technologies to Distribute SimpleSignal’s SIP Trunking
Partnership allows hundreds of AastraLink Response Point resellers to offer SimpleSignal’s SIP Trunking to North America businesses

Brampton, ON, Canada and Dana Point, CA (PRWEB) January 5, 2009 — SimpleSignal, a leading service provider of hosted telephone systems for businesses, and Wesbell Technologies, the sole North American distributor of the AastraLink Response Point solution, announced today that they have entered into a distribution agreement to market SimpleSignal’s SIP Trunking solution to Wesbell’s AastraLink Response Point resellers.

SimpleSignal’s SimpleSIP™ solution gives SMBs and large enterprises advanced VoIP calling features and works with any PBX and IP-PBX phone system. SimpleSIP Trunking delivers productivity enhancing features, such as simultaneous ring, unified messaging and disaster recovery capabilities. Under the agreement, Wesbell resellers of AastraLink Response Point will be able to offer SimpleSIP to their business customers in the U.S. and Canada.
“This distribution arrangement with Wesbell Technologies means thousands of businesses will have access to our SimpleSIP Trunking solution and can gain access to advanced calling features using the same telephony system they have in-house,” said Michael Sterl, vice president of Sales for SimpleSignal. “During these tough economic times, SimpleSIP Trunking allows companies to improve their workers’ productivity and connectivity in an economical way.”

“Wesbell Technologies is committed to building a value-add reseller network, with innovative products and solutions that provide the reseller community with the tools for success, and SimpleSignal is a key partner in adding that value,” said Chris Mercer, vice president of Sales for Wesbell Technologies.

“SIP Trunking is a big play in today’s marketplace, in which businesses are concerned about the bottom-line, yet want the best technology available,” said Mark Fitchett, the National Channel director for Wesbell Technologies. “We know our resellers will be excited to offer SIP Trunking from a trusted provider like SimpleSignal to their business clients.”

SimpleSignal’s SimpleSIP Trunking:

* Reduces the need to purchase additional hardware to interface IP voice to the PSTN (Public Switch Telephone Network)
* Includes free local and long distance and office-to-office calling
* Includes non-reachable routing to any 10-digit number
* Includes Burstable trunks
* Has easy-to-use Web-based telephone number management.

Both parties will work together to bring value and unique competitive offerings to the AastraLink Response Point reseller community.

Resellers interested in Wesbell’s SimpleSIP Trunking solution should contact Wesbell Technologies at 1-888-Wesbell.

About Wesbell Technologies:
Wesbell Technologies is a privately owned corporation specializing in providing professional services, investment recovery, distribution, and managed services to communications carriers, manufacturers and resellers through more than 250 people in eight locations throughout North America. Wesbell Technologies is a partner of Aastra and Microsoft®, and is the sole distributor of the AastraLink Response Point phone system in North America. With its corporate head office located in Brampton, Canada, Wesbell is focused on providing “Customer Satisfaction Beyond the Call.” For more information, visit us at www.wesbell.com.

About SimpleSignal:
SimpleSignal Inc. is a facilities-based complete network provider of business VoIP. The company’s enterprise-grade service is designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses, combining voice and data, hosted PBX, long distance and conferencing into one powerful, cost-effective communications solution. Delivering more capabilities than on-premise PBX systems, with greater flexibility, simplicity, and personalized service. Now businesses of any size can leverage the power of advanced IP communications technology, improving business productivity, while significantly reducing overall telecom costs. SimpleSignal is privately held and headquartered in Dana Point, CA. SimpleSignal services are deployed in over 40 states and 6 foreign countries. For more information about SimpleSignal, visit http://www.simplesignal.com.

Innovative Voice 2.0 Business Service Offerings Result in SimpleSignal Being a Leader of IP Communications

DANA POINT, CA — November 5, 2008 – SimpleSignal, a leading service provider of hosted telephone systems for businesses, announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceVoIP “Fierce 15” list, designating it as one of the top IP communications companies of the year. FierceVoIP editors evaluated hundreds of organizations, and found SimpleSignal to be amongst the “fiercest,” proven by their innovative Voice 2.0 offerings to SMBs, including mashups with salesforce.com and Microsoft® Exchange®.

SimpleSignal stands out among service providers that deliver telephony services to small and medium businesses by introducing unique solutions that integrate advanced VoIP calling features with popular business applications.

“Our goal at SimpleSignal is to continuously add value and productivity enhancements to the voice solutions our SMB customers depend on for their success,” said Dave Gilbert, president of SimpleSignal. “This honor from such a respected industry news source as FierceVoIP validates our strategy and recognizes SimpleSignal as one of the leaders in IP communications.”

SimpleSignal’s Voice 2.0 offerings include:
Salesforce CRM mashups that automatically open a caller’s contact record in Salesforce when a call is received, and allow users to answer calls, place callers on hold and transfer calls—all from within the popular customer relationship management software.

SimpleScribe, a voicemail-to-text service that allows businesses to more efficiently manage voicemail by delivering transcribed messages to users’ email inboxes.

SimplyMobile, an integration of Hosted PBX with Microsoft Exchange that enables users to listen to their emails and manage Outlook® calendar items using voice commands from any telephone, including mobile devices.

FierceVoIP, an internationally recognized twice-weekly email newsletter reaching more than 45,000 senior IP communications industry executives, provides readers in over 100 countries with a quick, authoritative briefing on the day’s top VoIP stories, including new trends and technologies.

The FierceVoIP “Fierce 15” celebrates the spirit of being “fierce” – championing innovation and creativity, even in the face of intense competition. The complete list of winning companies is available today on the FierceVoIP web site at www.fiercevoip.com.

About FierceMarkets
FierceMarkets is a digital business media company serving vertical markets with email newsletters, web sites, and live events. Based in Washington DC, FierceMarkets publications reach more than 450,000 executives in over 100 countries every business day. Current publications include The Business VoIP Report , DailyTechRag, FierceBioResearcher, FierceBiotech, FierceBioResearcher, FierceCIO, FierceDeveloper, FierceFinance, FierceGameBiz, FierceHealthCare, FierceHealthIT, FierceIPTV , FierceMobileContent, FierceSarbox, FierceVoIP, FierceWiFi, FierceWireless, and IT-Wireless.

Jeff Pelletier and Michael Sterl to discuss differentiation through unified communications at 6th annual BroadSoft Connections. The conference attracts C-level attendees representing broadband, wireline, cable and mobile carriers and partners from more than 30 countries.

Dana Point, CA, October 01, 2008 – SimpleSignal Inc., a leader in hosted telephone systems for businesses, announces that its executives Jeff Pelletier and Michael Sterl will share the company’s insights into how telecom carriers can engender customer loyalty and drive new revenues using voice 2.0 mashups at the 6th annual BroadSoft Connections Executive Users Conference, held Oct. 5-8.

Mr. Pelletier, Chief Technology Officer, will participate on the panel “Xtending Web 2.0 Solutions: Developing Applications for the Next Generation,” where he will discuss how SimpleSignal uses BroadSoft’s BroadWorks® VoIP application platform to create new unified communications offerings that combine hosted telephony with leading business applications, including salesforce.com, GotVoice and Microsoft® Exchange®.

“SimpleSignal is leading by example in the evolution from plain old telephone service to voice 2.0 — the integration of IP-based voice features with Web 2.0 applications,” said Pelletier.

Mr. Sterl, vice president of North America Sales, will participate on the panel “Business Connectivity: Differentiation through Enhanced Capabilities,” and will present the business case for delivering more value to enterprises through enhanced VoIP services, such as fixed-mobile convergence, disaster recovery and customized solutions.

BroadSoft Connections is the telecom industry’s premiere executive users conference for VoIP. The conference attracts C-level attendees representing broadband, wireline, cable and mobile carriers and partners from more than 30 countries.

SimpleSignal is one of BroadSoft’s fastest growing service provider customers, and a leader in deployments of voice 2.0 mashups to SMBs. SimpleSignal’s SimplyMobile hosted Exchange solution and SimpleScribe voicemail-to-text service are available via wholesale to other carriers.

Who: Michael Sterl, VP of North America Sales, and Jeff Pelletier, CTO

What: BroadSoft Connections 2008 – Xtend

When: Business Connectivity: Differentiation through Enhanced Capabilities, Oct. 6, 2008, 2:45 PM MST; Xtending Web 2.0 Solutions: Developing Applications for the Next Generation Oct. 7, 2008, 3:15 PM MST

Where: Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona

About SimpleSignal
SimpleSignal Inc. is a facilities-based complete network provider of business VoIP. The company’s enterprise-grade service is designed specifically for small- to medium-sized businesses, combining voice and data, hosted PBX, long distance and conferencing into one powerful, cost-effective communications solution. Delivering more capabilities than on-premise PBX systems, with greater flexibility, simplicity, and personalized service. Now businesses of any size can leverage the power of advanced IP communications technology, improving business productivity, while significantly reducing overall telecom costs. SimpleSignal is privately held and headquartered in Dana Point, CA. SimpleSignal services are deployed in over 40 states and 6 foreign countries. For more information about SimpleSignal, visit http://www.simplesignal.com.

About BroadSoft
BroadSoft® provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its award-winning flagship BroadWorks technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft’s family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world’s leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to seven of the top 10 and 13 of the top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including Korea Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-Systems, and Verizon. For additional information, go to www.BroadSoft.com.

SimpleSignal is a registered trademark of SimpleSignal, Inc. All other names are trademarks of their respective owners.

SimpleScribe service built on GotVoice technology; available to channel partners as a white label solution

Dana Point, CA, September 16, 2008 – SimpleSignal Inc., a leader in hosted telephone systems for businesses, announces a new voicemail-to-text service called SimpleScribe that allows small and medium businesses (SMBs) to more easily manage their voicemail messages by reading them. Built on GotVoice technology, a white label version of the SimpleScribe voicemail-to-text service is immediately available for channel partners.

“Let’s be honest: Voicemail sucks. It’s just faster to read your voicemails,” said Dave Gilbert, president of SimpleSignal. “SimpleScribe — combined with the single number that rings multiple phones capabilities of our hosted VoIP solution — is ideal for fast companies and mobile workers who want to avoid the time sinkhole of listening to long messages and having to jot down notes.”

The new SimpleScribe service converts voice messages into text and delivers them via email. SMBs can quickly review their voicemail at a glance, saving time from having to listen to lengthy voice messages. The service also sends voicemails to a user’s email inbox as MP3 or WAV file attachments.

SimpleScribe scales to thousands of users and requires no hardware upgrades or resource commitment from IT departments. SimpleScribe allows users to:

* Receive voicemail as text and digital audio in their email inbox
* Forward messages to coworkers via email
* Archive all voicemail text and audio files for easy retrieval
* Use the service for both mobile and landline phones

SimpleSignal partnered with GotVoice to create SimpleScribe. GotVoice’s voicemail-to-text technology works with nearly all major mobile and home phone carriers. “Partnering with SimpleSignal exposes our technology to people who can benefit from it the most — small and medium businesses,” said GotVoice CEO Curt Blake. “SimpleScribe will free SMBs from the voicemail blackhole so they can focus on growing their businesses.”

Channel partners interested in providing the SimpleScribe voicemail-to-text service should call (866) 434-4404. Resellers interested in joining the SimpleSignal Channel Partner program can sign up at http://simplesignal.com/partners.php.

SimpleScribe follows the introduction of SimpleSignal’s SimplyMobile unified communications solution, which combines feature-rich hosted PBX with hosted Microsoft® Exchange 2007, and SimpleSignal for Salesforce, which adds calling features to the popular CRM application. See demos of these SimpleSignal solutions live at ITEXPO West 2008 in Booth 642 from Sept. 16-18.

Free trial of SimpleSignal for Salesforce CRM VoIP solution now available to SMBs

Dana Point, CA, September 08, 2008 – Internet marketing firm LeadClick Media Inc. announced today that it has upgraded its customer service by selecting SimpleSignal to provide a solution that integrates LeadClick Media’s hosted phone system with its Salesforce CRM application. SimpleSignal Inc., a leader in hosted telephone systems for businesses, is providing LeadClick Media with both its hosted VoIP phone service and its SimpleSignal for Salesforce integrated solution.

SimpleSignal for Salesforce brings SimpleSignal’s advanced VoIP technology to the industry-leading Salesforce CRM application suite. With SimpleSignal for Salesforce, LeadClick Media can automatically capture and manage detailed logs of all calls from within Salesforce CRM to track interactions with customers. The integrated solution automatically opens a caller’s contact record in Salesforce when LeadClick Media receives an incoming call. LeadClick Media employees can answer calls, place callers on hold and transfer calls—all from within Salesforce.

“Our business is Internet marketing and web-based lead generation; for us, relationships really matter,” said Michael Miller, sales director for LeadClick Media, located in San Francisco. “We saw the value of integrating our calling features with our Salesforce CRM application for improved customer service some time ago, but only SimpleSignal was able to deliver this solution for us. Having a customer’s contact info appear on the computer screen when the customer calls us increases our efficiency and allows us to immediately focus on addressing the customer’s needs.”

Using advanced VoIP functionality such as Simultaneous Ring and Remote Office, SimpleSignal for Salesforce allows SMBs to access their information in Salesforce CRM and calling features from any location — even from home offices or via mobile devices.

“SimpleSignal for Salesforce offers customers an excellent CRM and IP Voice communication solution delivered completely as a service,” said Clarence So, Chief Marketing Officer, salesforce.com “LeadClick Media is an excellent example of a company using SaaS applications like Salesforce and SimpleSignal to run their business in the cloud.”

SimpleSignal for Salesforce is the latest innovation from SimpleSignal, which delivers cloud computing-based telephony services that integrate with other crucial business applications to thousands of SMBs.

“We applaud LeadClick Media for wanting to deliver the best customer experience possible by choosing our innovative business communication solution that extends the value of Salesforce CRM,” said Dave Gilbert, president of SimpleSignal. “Our goal is to provide hosted VoIP solutions that seamlessly integrate with leading Web 2.0 business applications in the cloud, so SMBs don’t have to worry about maintaining on-premise servers, equipment and software. SMBs can instead focus on running their businesses while we provide pioneering voice solutions that enable them to realize dramatic leaps in productivity and profitability.”

A free trial of SimpleSignal for Salesforce is available to SMBs. Go to http://simplesignal.com/salesforce_integration.php or call (866) 434-4404

SimpleSignal announces general availability of ‘SimplyMobile,’ a Hosted Unified Communications solution

Dana Point, CA, July 31, 2008 – Today, SimpleSignal, Inc., a leader in hosted business telephone systems announces the general availability of an innovative Unified Communications solution combining feature-rich hosted PBX with hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 delivering a voice-enabled messaging solution for SMBs. The integrated solution, called SimplyMobile, delivers a new paradigm in business voice communications by enabling users to listen to their emails and manage calendar items in Microsoft Outlook using voice commands from any telephone, including mobile devices.

With SimplyMobile, email and voice services are hosted, allowing end-users to focus on managing their business, rather than managing their communications infrastructure. In addition to voice and email features available in high-end systems, this unique solution translates emails from text to speech and allows users to call Outlook contacts via voice commands on a mobile phone. Users can even verbally change the time of a meeting in their calendar and Exchange will send an email notification of the change to the meeting participants.

“Today’s worker is mobile and needs one solution to manage their voicemail, email and calendar from any location at anytime,” said Dave Gilbert, president of SimpleSignal. “The convenience of having emails read while on the move and using voice commands to call contacts and manage calendars makes it incredibly easy for users to communicate, collaborate, and share information.”

SimpleSignal teamed with Chinook Hosting, a leading hosted solutions company, to provide the hosted Exchange services for SimplyMobile. “Hosted Unified Communications represents a fundamental shift in the way business people communicate,” said Tim Ritchie, vice president of sales for Chinook Hosting. “The integration of voice and business communication applications will lead to dramatically increased productivity by automating call tracking and response while dramatically increasing first attempt contacts.”

SimplyMobile is available through SimpleSignal starting at $59.95 per user per month, including Hosted Exchange 2007 with 2 gigabyte of storage and an unlimited North American calling plan. Value-added resellers should go to www.simplesignal.com/partners.php.

About Chinook Hosting
Chinook Hosting Corporation was founded in 2006 by the world-class hosted solutions experts at implement.com Corporation. Chinook Hosting delivers the leading edge of Microsoft’s hosted technology, the stability of a world-class data center, and a simple unified self-service portal for Chinook Hosting services. Visit www.chinookhosting.com.

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