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Hello Members, Two HUGE topics to cover: - AASP Managed Services Introduction
- Overview of the New Changes at AASP
AASP Managed Services Focusing on member profit potentials, our Managed Services Team (MST) has developed the first AASP managed (outsourced) programs to generate substantial revenues for our members in there own market places. AASP will wholesale, care for, and support specific programs with sales tools, marketing content, private labeling, and provide access to professional prospecting campaigns for the products in these AASP endorsed programs. Be ahead of the competition with: - Email Archiving Services fully complying with the new 12/01/2006 Federal Rules of Civil Procedures which will affect email risk management in business large and small.
- Carrier grade outsource email filtering services with free spooling and end user feature granularity, delivering the high end performance required for archiving, and the same benefits get passed on to your residential users.
- Hosted email with filtering – outsource email altogether with fully functional web interface.
- ALL Services are PRIVATE LABEL, marketable under YOUR BRAND NAME, guaranteed with uptime and performance.
Our MST research shows, without out a doubt, email concerns are providing the greatest short-term market growth potentials for the ISP-MSP technology delivery industries. MST has developed managed offerings because of these market potentials, with turnkey, no hassle solutions. With spam on the rampage, AASP members now have access to best of breed outsourced email filtering. You will no longer have to deal with it on a daily basis. For starters, you will see a 90% reduction in the volume your email servers process every day. We have put this product through real world implementations and have seen about an 80% end user uptake on this revenue generating product. There is more info on “services” marketing in the member’s only section. Over the next few weeks you should be contacted about these member services, or if you want to begin trials/demo’s right away give the AASP Managed Services Team / Premium Email Filtering & Archiving Service division a call Toll Free (866)364-3580 As with any managed group program, price is driven by participation. Our MST has researched and dedicated themselves to negotiating for the finest services at the most competitive prices, from the start, with estimated participation. The first product will provide members with a huge reduction in cost over a single entity price. Additional necessities focused on ease of use, ease of implementation, and “out of the box” performance. There are multiple top vendors pulled in to the mix to provide these services. These products will not only impress you but more importantly they will impress your end users, so much so that they may start talking about its ease of use and their lack of spam. We have had several folks ask if their email was off, once they reviewed their quarantine, they saw that what they were missing was what they did not want in the first place. Changes at AASP AASP is under going some major changes. Corrina Wolfe has resigned to pursue other activities, she will be missed and we wish her well in her future endeavors. AASP has a new phone number 888-371-7333 All names and passwords have been reloaded to the NEW website so anyone that had a problem logging in to the members only section in the past, should be able to log in. If you do experience a problem send an email to
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and we will reset it for you. There is a new AASP website online; this site has many new features and additions. Here are a few: 1. NEW Password lookup is added so if you forget it you can have it sent to you. Logging into the member’s only section is in the upper right corner of the home page. When successfully logged in you will see the member’s only section within the left menu. To log into the back office (update or change information about your company, add customers to the benefits or loyalty program, both now a free service) select Member Services Login from the left menu. Note The two login areas do not share the same data base for security reasons. 2. NEW New look. AASP has updated the look and made the site easier to navigate. 3. NEW More content. We have added several new content areas as well as revising and updating some of the old sections. a. NEW Newsfeeds and news ticker have been added to have a one stop spot to check the latest news from multiple industry news sources. If you have a favorite not there let us know and we will see about adding it. b. NEW Addition of polling capabilities, we need member feedback to be affective, polling is the quickest way to get feedback and requires only a minute of your time. Take time to vote on the new site in the first poll. c. NEW Member forums are added. This will give the members a place to talk about issues or problems that they are seeing or need help with. The main forum is for members only and will not be open to vendors. There is a second forum that has the vendors of AASP as members so if you have questions for them you can check here and ask if you do not see what you are looking for. This will be a way to get information to the whole membership at one time and share experiences and learn from each other and possibly head off potential problems. Sharing of things that are working for you is also a good thing as well, as this can only benefit the industry as a whole. d. NEW Corporate members page to give credit to the companies within our industry that give their support to AASP and its members. These may not be regular vendors but support us in other ways. e. Marketing information is provided on an on going basis provided for AASP by Brock Henderson. Also included in the members only section is information on what other members have found to be successful for them in their markets. There will be sample ads and templates. i. NEW In addition to this there will be marketing programs in the member’s only section on some products and services that have been used. When available we will include results that other ISPs have had. f. Legal information is provided on an on going basis provided by Kristopher Twomey, telecom and Internet lawyer and regulatory consultant. g. NEW New Services will contain a brief overview of products or services that are new to AASP for the membership. h. Regulatory This section will bring information to you from other groups that AASP works with, to keep you up to date on what is going on. Here we would also like input from ISP's as to what is happening in their state so it can be included and monitored. It may help ISPs in other states to know what is happening elsewhere. i. Benefits Here you will find information on the current benefits to the members. We will do an update to this as things change with the Health care initiative. As things stand now we have taken a major hit with OR voting down any sort of AHPs. We will continue to push for this at the national level. j. AASP News This has been redone to fit its original format. Here you will find information on AASP in the press new relationships and other things going on behind the scenes at AASP. There is more going on than one would think. k. NEW AASP Managed services This is where you will find information on new services that AASP is developing. Bringing the members new products and services that are combining multiple vendors to provide a single service. We have to manage these vendors and services to make it available to you. The first of these cutting edge products you read about above. There will also be a new format and procedure for the Newsletter. The old newsletter did not contain enough informative information. There will be more information and articles provided by vendors, supporters, people from our industry and members, these will be informative and not a sales pitch. Being that the content and the format is changing for the newsletter, the size may be larger than we would want to email to all members. There will be an announcement made with highlights from the newsletter; the full issue will be available online. You will need to login to see the current issue as it will be for members only for thirty days. The archived newsletters will be in the public section of the site. We feel that information about your membership should be seen by you first. Thank you for your continued support, and remember we are here for you so let us know what you need.
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