Be sure to stop by and say hello!  We will be at Booth 404 (note booth # change)and would love to meet you!!

To set up a meeting with Copper, before or during the show, contact Carolyn Bradfield cbradfield@copperconferencing.com or 877-761-5700.

Webinar Title: Growth Strategies
Presented by Aldonna Ambler
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011
Time: 2pm ET/ 12pm MT

Description:
Even if your business isn’t currently in a rapid growth mode, you will learn the management techniques that help the most successful companies sustain their competitive advantage, coordinate resources, prevent conflict, and keep things moving quickly. Join The Growth Strategist™ Aldonna R. Ambler, CMC, CSP, in this interactive session filled with practical advice and examples from real companies like yours.

This session will highlight 20+ Growth Strategies, a list of ways successful entrepreneurs/clients of The Growth Strategist™ have grown their businesses. From franchising to strategic alliances to roll ups, these growth strategies are invaluable to any business ready to blast a plateau with Achieving Accelerated Growth With Sustained Profitability®.

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover strategies that will move your company in the right direction. Register today!

Who Should Attend: Human Resources, Administrators, Directors, Managers, and Organizational Leaders..

Register here: http://www.copperconferencing.com/go/6bf80

Have questions about Copper Conferencing or need to do an audio conference or web meeting?  Contact a Conference Coach today.

Copper Conferencing is sponsoring the ILTA Denver City Group’s upcoming February 10, 2011 monthly meeting.   You can meet with Lauren Brady to discuss audio conferencing and webinar solutions, learn more about how to use conferencing in your firm’s business or sign up for a free trial.

Topic: Web Conferencing by Copper Conferencing
Time:  11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Location:
Sherman & Howard LLC
633 17th St.  Suite 1990
Denver, CO  80202

Register for the event today!

To schedule a meeting with Lauren, call 303-951-4171 or email lbrady@copperconferencing.com.

Copper Conferencing

The event is Friday, February 17, 2011 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm at the Washington Athletic Club. BJ will be at the Copper Conferencing booth  to meet with PSALA members.  Meet with BJ Bates during lunch or swing by for a cocktail after the keynote.

To schedule a meeting with BJ or to learn more about audio conferencing and webinar solutions, call 303-951-4177 or email bjbates@copperconferencing.com.

Copper Conferencing is sponsoring the ILTA Denver City Group’s upcoming February 10, 2011 monthly meeting.   You can meet with Lauren Brady to discuss audio conferencing and webinar solutions, learn more about how to use conferencing in your firm’s business or sign up for a free trial.

Date: February 10, 2011

Time:  12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Location:
Sherman & Howard LLC
633 17th St.  Suite 1990
Denver, CO  80202

Register for the event today!

To schedule a meeting with Lauren before or after the event, call 303-951-4171 or email lbrady@copperconferencing.com.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA — January 24, 2011 Copper Conferencing and COMPTEL have renewed their partnership for 2011. COMPTEL selected Copper Conferencing, a leading provider of audio conferencing and webinar services, to be the preferred provider for its webinar program.  COMPTEL’s webinar program features industry leading speakers on a broad range of topics specifically targeted to benefit COMPTEL’s members.

“COMPTEL is very excited to partner with Copper Conferencing as our provider of choice for our webinar programs.  We have found Copper Conferencing’s webinar features and services to be excellent,” said Tracy MacDonald, Member Programs Support Manager for COMPTEL.

You can learn more about COMPTEL at the upcoming 2011 Spring conference and expo, COMPTEL PLUS is from March 20 – 23 at The Venetian in Las Vegas.  Learn more about COMPTEL PLUS now.

“For the past two years, COMPTEL and Copper Conferencing have been working together to provide COMPTEL members with access to an educational webinar program.  We are very pleased to be working with COMPTEL for a third year,” said Darren Suders, Director of Channel Sales.  “Copper Conferencing believes providing access to education through webinars and audio conferencing is a win-win for everyone.”

About COMPTEL PLUS
The COMPTEL PLUS Convention & EXPO is the preeminent networking event for innovative communications companies and their supplier partners. Held twice a year, COMPTEL PLUS attracted almost 200 exhibitors and more than 3,700 attendees to our 2010 events. COMPTEL PLUS provides you with the opportunity to learn about new products, services and industry trends; meet potential customers and do business. In addition, COMPTEL PLUS offers comprehensive educational programming led by experienced industry speakers. COMPTEL PLUS is produced by COMPTEL, the leading industry association representing competitive communications service providers and their supplier partners. For more information, please visit www.comptelplus.org.

About COMPTEL
Based in Washington, D.C., COMPTEL is the leading industry association representing competitive communications service providers and their supplier partners. COMPTEL members are entrepreneurial companies driving technological innovation and creating economic growth through competitive voice, video, and data offerings and the development and deployment of next-generation, IP-based networks and services. COMPTEL advances its members’ interests through trade shows, networking, education, and policy advocacy before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the courts. COMPTEL works to ensure that competitive communications providers can continue to offer lower prices, better service, and greater innovation to consumers. For more information, visit www.comptel.org.

About Copper Conferencing
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado with a major communications center in Atlanta, Georgia, Copper Conferencing provides world-class audio conferencing and market-leading web conferencing services. From On Demand reservationless audio conference calls to highly interactive webinars and special teleconference event calls, Copper Conferencing helps your customers save time and money while improving productivity.  Your customers can easily access conferencing account information, recordings, reports or invoices via Connect To Copper, our online customer portal.  Give your customers a better way to collaborate and communicate.  Give them Copper Conferencing.  For more information about Copper Conferencing, visit www.copperconferencing.com or call 866-903-7521.

Copyright  2011 Copper Link Pro and Copper Conferencing are trademarks of The Himark Group, LLC dba Copper Conferencing.

Press Contact:

Alycia Maier-Turner
Copper Conferencing
303.952.4308
pr@copperconferencing.com

Denver, CO and Atlanta, GA — January 20, 2011 Copper Conferencing, a leading provider of audio conferencing and webinar services, is proud to announce a significant investment in its Channel Sales Team with the addition of Jace Harris.

Jace Harris, a long-time Copper employee, has joined the Channel Sales Team as the Channel Account Manager, a dedicated support professional to work directly with agents, manage new accounts and grow existing revenue through expanded relationships.  During his tenure at Copper Conferencing, Jace has excelled in Copper’s customer care department, was promoted to account management and has led his team in managing customer relationships and expanding Copper’s presence in accounts.

“I’m thrilled Jace is now a member of Copper’s Channel Team,” said Darren Suders, Director of Channel Sales.   “Our Channel Partner Program has expanded significantly in the past year and we expect the growth to continue.  Expanding our team now gives Copper the ability to provide even greater partner and customer support.  Jace’s experience and knowledge is a great addition to the Channel Sales Team.”

Copper Conferencing announced last fall, the availability of Copper Link Pro, a powerful online e-marketing suite specifically for Copper’s Channel Partners.  Copper Link Pro gives partners an even greater ability to promote the products and services they sell – not just audio conferencing or web conferencing from Copper.

“Using Copper Link Pro, Partners can quickly and easily build campaigns, customize landing pages and manage the entire campaign process. Users can integrate with different email providers such as StreamSend or MailChimp and the landing pages may be customized to send information directly to the user’s CRM,” said Alycia Maier-Turner, Director of Marketing for Copper Conferencing. “It’s easy-to-use and best of all, Copper Link Pro is free for our partners.”

Copper Conferencing will be showcasing Copper Link Pro at the Channel Partners Show in Las Vegas, March 13 – 15, 2011.  Stop by Booth No. 1331 and visit Copper Conferencing or email Darren Suders to schedule an appointment.

About Copper Conferencing
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado with a major communications center in Atlanta, Georgia, Copper Conferencing provides world-class audio conferencing and market-leading web conferencing services. From On Demand reservationless audio conference calls to highly interactive webinars and special teleconference event calls, Copper Conferencing helps your customers save time and money while improving productivity.  Your customers can easily access conferencing account information, recordings, reports or invoices via Connect To Copper, our online customer portal.  Give your customers a better way to collaborate and communicate.  Give them Copper Conferencing.  For more information about Copper Conferencing, visit www.copperconferencing.com or call 866-903-7521.

Copyright  2011 Copper Link Pro and Copper Conferencing are trademarks of The Himark Group, LLC dba Copper Conferencing

Press Contact:

Alycia Maier-Turner
Copper Conferencing
303.952.4308
pr@copperconferencing.com

Carolyn Bradfield

I’ve always believed that eating a balanced diet is the healthy way to go.  Load up with McDonald’s cheeseburgers and you can count on saturating your arteries with a nice thick paste of plaque.  Leave out milk, cheese and broccoli and your bones thin out.  Most of you get the picture and have been taught this simple rule going way back to health class in elementary school.

I think the same is true in business.  Years ago, I ran sales and marketing for Raindance Communications, a conferencing company in Denver that has long been absorbed into another conferencing empire.  We executed the balanced diet approach to revenue generation, fielding a strong marketing effort, a direct sales force to focus on audio conferencing and one to focus on web conferencing, and a channel department.  When one group underperformed, the other group came on strong and kept our revenue growing.  That group was the channel.

I’m a little confused by other conferencing companies who had a balanced diet by investing in a channel sales strategy and then decided to go the way of McDonald’s, cutting back their balanced approach and leaving the channel behind.  You see this to be true at most of the major channel events where agents gather to learn about vendors and their technology.  InterCall, the largest conferencing provider, often doesn’t have a booth and sends one or two people just to walk the exhibit floor.  They’ve cancelled agent contracts, pulled back resources and focused on their direct organization, only to achieve flat revenues.

Copper Conferencing still believes in a balanced diet, and revenue for us doesn’t grow unless we have a strong channel to help feed us accounts from the relationships that these independent agents have worked really hard to build.  In fact, we intend to invest more in our channel.

Enter Jace Harris, a stand out Copper employee for the last three years.  He excelled in our customer care position, was promoted to account management and has lead his team in managing customer relationships and expanding our presence in accounts.  Jace joins the channel as a dedicated support professional to work directly with agents, manage their accounts AND grow revenue through expanded relationships.

When we come to the Channel Partners Show in Las Vegas this March, be prepared to be impressed.  We’ve moved beyond conferencing and are launching a comprehensive marketing suite designed to be a one-stop shop to promote, organize, manage and deliver marketing campaigns.   Our direct accounts will use this for webinar programs; however our channel group can use this technology to promote any product or service that they sell, whether it includes conferencing or not.

A single agent can access the Copper Marketing Suite, create a campaign, manage a targeted list and engineer an email and lead capture campaign without any special training or additional technology.

I think Copper Conferencing and its channel partners need to learn to work smarter and use the tools we are delivering to market more aggressively and more often.  We’re investing in the channel by adding personnel in advance of anticipated demand as our channel partners ramp up for 2011.

Go ahead InterCall …… eat those cheeseburgers served up to you by your direct sales force at unhealthy margins and with poor relationships.  I’m betting on our channel partners to deliver long-lasting productive account relationships.  We’re investing at Copper, not holding back.  You’ll see that in our personnel, products and our presence dedicated to the channel.

Carolyn Bradfield is the CEO of Copper Conferencing, a provider of easy-to-use audio conferencing and web conferencing communication tools. You can try the Copper Marketing Suite — FREE!  Just contact Darren Suders at dsuders@copperconferencing.com or call 303-951-4175.

World War II was a long time ago for some and only yesterday for others.  In the short span since the end of World War II, the United States has been in other wars and armed conflicts.  Yes, not all U.S. military involvement results in war as only the United States Congress can declare an act of war.  This simple fact does not preclude U.S. Presidents from starting skirmishes or becoming involved in armed conflicts.  Whether you agree with the U.S. involvement in any of the wars before or since World War II, the plain fact is that many people, both men and women, have sacrificed their lives, livelihoods, friends and family to ensure that the United States was defended well.

I usually do a blog post on Veteran’s Day to thank all the men and women who have willingly taken up arms to defend our great nation.  This year, I decided that the anniversary of Pearl Harbor would be more appropriate.  I would like to remember that these people who are now late in life gave of themselves so that all Americans are afforded the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness guaranteed to us in the Constitution.   I would like those who do remember to instill in their sons, daughters, grandsons and grand-daughters and anyone to young to remember a sense of the great sacrifice made then and still today.

I would also like to thank all of the parents, wives, husbands, sons and daughters who have moved forward after the loss of loved ones or the return of those broken by the atrocities of war.  Your sacrifices have not gone unnoticed and are as important as those who have manned the front lines in battle.

It is easy to forget that there are still U.S. military personnel fighting in places around the globe.  It is easy to forget that they are not out of harm’s way and that they may yet give their lives to ensure every other U.S. citizen is able to enjoy freedoms not so freely given in other countries or parts of the world.  Even though I do not have a loved one as active-duty military nor have any of my family members been lost in battle, I remember those who do and who have.

I would like every American to remember sometimes sacrifice is necessary, but many times it is not easy.

Alycia Maier-Turner is the Director of Marketing for Copper Conferencing, a webinar and audio conferencing company providing conferencing solutions to companies around the world.  To learn more about Copper Conferencing, contact sales@copperconferencing.com

Webinar Title: The 7 Marketing Archetypes: What You Absolutely Need to Know for Your Business
Presented by Miriam Reiss
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Time: 2pm ET / 12pm MT

Do you know where your marketing mindset is taking you? The marketing direction of your company is driven by your marketing mindset. That mindset, more than what marketing vehicles you choose, determines the success of your business. Based on 20+ years’ experience as a marketing coach, Miriam Reiss has identified 7 distinct marketing archetypes that comprise marketing mindset.

This free webinar will cover:
• The essential impact of marketing mindset on your business
• How marketing archetypes unconsciously drive your business
• Examples of marketing archetypes
• Ways to rethink and re-pattern your marketing archetype

Don’t miss this opportunity to dramatically shift your marketing choices and propel business prosperity. Register today!

Who Should Attend: Marketing Directors, Marketing Managers, Marketing Assistants, and other Department of Marketing Employees.

Register here: http://www.copperconferencing.com/go/3bf35

Have questions about Copper Conferencing or need to do an audio conference or web meeting?  Contact a Conference Coach today.