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ProVu Appoints Craig Herrett as Sales Director

We are delighted to welcome Craig Herrett as our new Sales Director. With over 20 years’ of sales experience, including 4 years’ with VoIPon Solutions as Sales Manager and most recently Chief Operating Officer, Craig brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the role.

The move comes as our Founder and former Sales Director, Ian Godfrey prepares for retirement.

Commenting on his new appointment, Craig said, “I am very excited to be joining ProVu. As a market leader in VoIP hardware distribution throughout the UK, I have always been impressed with Darren, Ian and the team. I look forward to supporting the next level of growth whilst ensuring we stay true to the values of ProVu.”

We’re sure you’ll join us in welcoming Craig to the team, if you’d like to have a chat with him why not call us on 01484 840048.

IFSEC 2017 – See us there!

It’s the annual IFSEC trade show this week. Taking place at ExCeL, London our vendor partner 2N will be exhibiting at the show – see them at stand number F1100.

If you’re planning on attending the show, our Sales Account Manager, and resident intercom and access control specialist, Gavin Sykes will be attending the show on Wednesday 21st June. If you’d like to arrange a meeting with Gavin, feel free to email us contact@provu.co.uk.

Register now to access our FREE Online Technical Training Courses!

Good news! ProVu resellers can now access our online training courses for free! That’s right, there’s no catch – simply register for the courses you wish to access today and start developing your Technical Support Services.

What courses are available?
Online courses currently available include:

Gigaset DECT online training

SARK PBX online training

Snom Handset online training

Yealink Handset online training

What are the benefits?
Our online courses are designed to improve your technical knowledge across a range of leading VoIP hardware manufacturers – ultimately helping you to increase your hardware sales and support your customers more effectively!

Am I eligible?
Our online courses are technical-based, however, there are no limitations – you can register as many individuals as you like.

What’s involved?
All of our courses are divided into easily manageable chunks, enabling you to complete courses at your own pace

 

Find out more & Register Here

 

Here at ProVu, we pride ourselves on our in-depth product and technical knowledge. If you have a specific training requirement, please get in touch – we’d love to hear from you!

We’re sponsoring the 2017 Margin in Voice & Data

We’re proud to be sponsoring this year’s Margin in Voice and Data conference. Taking place on 22nd June, at the Forest of Arden Hotel and Country Club, Birmingham we will be joining the Distributor Zone for the second consecutive year.

What is Margin in Voice and Data?

Organised by Channel publishers, Comms Dealer, the event has been running for almost a decade and is designed to provide voice and data resellers with valuable insights into new evolving technologies. The event specifically focuses on commercial opportunities for Channel businesses.

Who can attend?

Qualifying delegates can attend for free. Places are offered to MD, CEO, and CTO level delegates from the following types of organisations, with revenues up to £2 million per annum.

  • Voice Reseller
  • Mobile Reseller
  • Data/IT Reseller
  • Managed Services Provider

Find out more & Register your interest to attend

With the main themes focusing on the shift to cloud communications, the connectivity solutions driving change and the value-added opportunities new business environments are creating for the ICT Channel. This year’s event is set to be a great one! If you are attending, don’t forget to drop by and say hello to the ProVu team!

Save & Learn with 2N’s Latest Promotion!

We’ve teamed up with 2N to bring you a brand new promotional offer. From now until the end of July 2017, ProVu resellers can purchase the new Helios IP Base intercom at a reduced price, plus, receive complimentary training from 2N’s UK Business Development Manager, Scott Foster with your first order!

Contact us for more information

Pricing and stock information is available on our reseller portal, ProSys. If you do not have access to ProSys and would like to create a reseller account, please complete our ProSys account request form.

Meet our new Technical Support Manager!

Technical Support Manager - Andy Devine

We’ve recently welcomed a new member to the ProVu Team! Andy Devine joins us with over 10 years of technical support experience. Having worked across multiple tech industries including digital print, ePOS, GPS and vehicle telematics he joined our Tech Team as a Technical Support Manager last month.

Heading up our support team, Andy has a wealth of knowledge in the Tech sector which has seen him secure contracts in the US, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain. Now residing in West Yorkshire with his wife, Andy is an ex-professional musician and enjoys spending time in his home recording studio. When he’s not in his recording studio, he can be found in his workshop working on his electronic and carpentry projects.

Commenting on his new appointment, Andy said, “I’m extremely happy to become a member of the ProVu Team, I look forward to working with the wide variety of products on offer and getting to know our customers.”

We’re sure you’ll join us in welcoming Andy to the team!

We’ve added 2 new courses to our online training!

We’ve added two new courses to our online training! Available now, our new Gigaset DECT and Snom online training courses offer you the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge at a pace and location that suits you. What’s better is that ProVu resellers can now access these for FREE!

Gigaset N510IP

Designed with Gigaset resellers and installers in mind, our new online training course covers everything you need to know about the range. Focusing on the popular Gigaset N510IP PRO single-cell base station, the course will show you how to get phones up and running, how to pair handsets and add SIP accounts.

Find out more & Register here

 


Snom D765

Ideal for Snom resellers and installers, this online training course is designed to help you develop your knowledge and expertise of the Snom range. Split into three sections,
this course will equip you with the ability to configure Snom hardware and develop your understanding to enable you to successfully deploy Snom phones.

Find out more & Register here

Congratulations to ITSPA Awards 2017 Winners!

ITSPA Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise) Winner VTSL

The ProVu team had a great day last week at the ITSPA Awards – this year’s ceremony was held at The Tower of London on the Tuesday 9th May.

As proud sponsors of the ITSPA Awards, we would like to congratulate all finalists and winners of the 2017 ITSPA Awards. Having sponsored the awards for the last 5 years, we believe the ITSPA Awards are a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the hard work and achievements in the industry over the last 12 months, and this year saw some exceptional accomplishments!

For those who have missed it, here is a list of this year’s winners and highly commended entries:

Award Winners
Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise) – Hello Telecom
Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise) – VTSL
Best Business ITSP (Corporate) – NFON
Best VoIP CPE – Panasonic
Best VoIP Infrastructure – Gamma
Best VoIP Innovation – Edgewater Networks
Best ITSP Reseller – Arrow Business Communications
ITSPA Members’ Pick – NICC
ITSPA Champion – Peter Cox

Highly Commended
Best Business ITSP (Small Enterprise) – Voipfone
Best Business ITSP (Medium Enterprise) – Orbtalk
Best VoIP CPE – Snom
Best VoIP Infrastructure – aql
Best VoIP Innovation – Vonage
Best ITSP Reseller – Sprint Convergence

 

Kate Stolworthy, Muhammad Bajwa, Darren Garland and Alison Mattimoe – Enjoying a day out at The Tower of London

ProVu Shortlisted in the 2017 Comms Business Awards!

We are thrilled to announce that we have been shortlisted for the Distributor of the Year award in the 2017 Comms Business Awards!

Due to take place at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London on 15th June the awards will be hosted by comedian, Al Murray. We are looking forward to attending the awards and joining our Channel Partners for what is set to be a fantastic night celebrating the various achievements throughout the Channel over the last 12 months.

Congratulations to all finalists, we look forward to seeing you next month!

ProVu Win 2 Comms Dealer Sales & Marketing Awards!

It’s that time of year again when we don the ‘posh frocks’ and kick off the year’s Channel awards. One of the first industry awards in our calendar is the Comms Dealer Sales and Marketing Awards, for which we were shortlisted for five awards! Designed to celebrate the work and achievements of Sales and Marketing teams throughout the Channel, the awards are a great event to celebrate success throughout the industry.

Taking place at the Park Lane Hotel on 4th May myself, our Managing Director, Darren and Sales Team Leader, Anna travelled down to London to attend the awards. Having been shortlisted for five awards, we were sceptical about how we may perform; all 5 awards had strong competition and following our success at last year’s awards, we didn’t think we’d do it again.

Much to our delight, we were named winners of the following awards:

  • Distributor Channel Sales Team of the Year
  • Distributor Channel Marketing Campaign of the Year

We were also thrilled to be highly commended for the Distributor Marketing Team of the Year award.

The last 12 months have seen some great achievements for the ProVu team, with yet another record-breaking year in the bag. We are continuously striving to bring more to the Channel and develop our services. But, for us, there are four core messages that we believe stood out to the judges.

  • We have an incredibly dedicated, passionate team who carry out everything in-house; we do not outsource anything we do.
  • We listen to and value our partners’ feedback, enabling us to tailor our services and develop our sales and marketing strategies in response to this.
  • We hold strong relationships with all of our vendor partners, by working with them closely, we are able to offer them marketing support and run joint marketing campaigns for maximum ROI.
  • We’re a great team and we know our stuff – did you know that over 50% of our team are trained technical engineers?

Compared to many of our fellow entrants, we are a very small team – to be named among them is a great achievement in itself!

We would like to congratulate all finalists and thank our Channel and vendor Partners for your continued support over the past year. But most of all, well done to each and every member of the ProVu team, without your hard work and determination this simply would not have been possible! Here’s to another great year!