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NEWS
Press Release
THE WIRELESS EXPERIENCE PROVIDES BELL MOBILITY WITH
WIRELESS DATA TECHNOLOGY AND SALES TRAINING THROUGHOUT CANADA
LOS GATOS, Ca and ROSWELL, Ga October 20, 2003 ... The
Wireless Experience, a wireless data sales training company founded
by Andrew Seybold and Edmond Legum, recognized leaders in the areas
of wireless data technology and sales training, has been engaged
by Bell Mobility of Canada to create and implement a comprehensive
sales training program for all Bell Mobility’s enterprise
salespeople and wireless data advisors throughout Canada.
This customized sales training program, which will be implemented
during the fourth quarter of 2003 and first quarter of 2004, is
designed to provide Bell Mobility’s frontline sales team
and their managers with the knowledge and tools to help the enterprise
make well-informed investments in wireless data solutions. Through
the program, Bell Mobility’s enterprise sales team and wireless
data advisors will be sensitized to the challenges facing the enterprise
today and trained in how to sell wireless data products and services
to this market based on Bell Mobility’s robust portfolio
of products, services, applications and IT expertise.
“Our goal is to help Bell Mobility account executives be
an even stronger partner with their enterprise customers in the
development and selection of wireless data solutions,” says
Edmond Legum, President of The Wireless Experience. “Our
program walks them through the various considerations and components
of the sales process and then gives them a cohesive plan to pull
together all the complex considerations that go into a wireless
data solution to help their enterprise customers make good decisions
for their company.”
“Bell Mobility is a recognized leader in wireless data throughout
Canada,” says Andrew Seybold, C.E.O. of The Wireless Experience. “This
commitment to further educating and training their account executives
will strengthen its position as the market leader and will go a
long way towards helping their customers embrace a wireless future.”
Andrew Seybold’s Outlook and The Edmond-Howard
Network have joined forces to create The Wireless Experience – the
first source dedicated exclusively to Total Sales Training for
wireless data products and services. The Wireless Experience fills
the information and sales training gap that exists between device
manufacturers, network operators, and the many direct and indirect
sales channels that sell wireless data products, services and solutions
to enterprises and consumers. Our goal is to give your sales team
the technology knowledge and skills they need to sell wireless
data products and services today, while creating long-term customer
loyalty. More information on The Wireless Experience can be found
at www.wirelessexperience.com.
Bell Mobility, a division of Bell Canada, provides
a complete range of innovative wireless communications solutions:
PCS and cellular, web-browsing and data, two-way messaging, paging
and airline passenger communications services. Bell Canada, Canada's
national leader in communications, provides connectivity to residential
and business customers through wired and wireless voice and data
communications, local and long distance phone services, high speed
and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, e-business
solutions and satellite television services. Bell Canada is wholly
owned by BCE Inc. For more information please visit www.bell.ca.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Edmond Legum
770-552-8980
ed@hownet.com
Press Release
ANDREW SEYBOLD AND EDMOND LEGUM JOIN FORCES TO FORM
THE WIRELESS EXPERIENCE
The Wireless Experience helps wireless companies
enhance the effectiveness of their wireless data sales training
efforts through technology education and sales training services
LOS GATOS, Ca and ROSWELL, Ga June 11, 2002 ... Noted wireless
data analyst Andrew M. Seybold, and Edmond Howard, the wireless
industrys leading authority on sales and sales management
training, have joined forces to form The Wireless Experience, a
Limited Liability Corporation focused on wireless data technology
education and sales training services.
The founding firms are the Andrew Seybold Consulting Group, LLC,
Los Gatos, CA; the Edmond-Howard Network, Roswell, GA; and Wireless
Marcom, LLC, with offices in Colorado and Massachusetts.
Andrew Seybolds organizations are widely known for their
international consulting activity, newsletters and seminars, including
Wireless Data University and Forbes/Andrew Seybolds Wireless
Outlook. The Edmond-Howard Network is equally respected as
the leading consulting firm focused on sales and sales management
training programs and materials for the wireless industry. Wireless
Marcom is well known for its comprehensive marketing, market research
and communications programs for the wireless industry. The new
company will operate internationally.
Although the industry knows how to sell voice-centric services,
wireless data is a much more complex and different type of sale,
whether youre marketing direct to enterprises or indirectly
to consumers, says Andrew Seybold, CEO of the newly formed
company. This condition intensifies in the new 2.5G and 3G offerings.
There will be a battle for business and the best-prepared companies
will win. The combination of talents and experience that we are
bring to the industry will provide the critical components and
methodologies to win in what is a business-to-business play for
the foreseeable future.
Andy Seybold offers incomparable technology awareness, and
much of his input will follow the lines of Wireless Data University,
which is held in conjunction with CTIA, Legum said. Of
course, technology acumen is only half of the equation for the
sales people on the street. We provide the other half in the form
of methods for identifying sales opportunities, analyzing applications,
developing solutions and importantly, completing the sales process
successfully.
This is vital to all wireless companies initiatives. We equip sales personnel
to approach user companies confidently, to determine how wireless data fits
into their worlds, and how to structure applications that will satisfy corporate
goals. We help them to truly partner with their customers.
For further information or to engage The Wireless Experience contact
Ed Legum at 1-800-335-3486 or visit us online at wirelessexperience.com
ABOUT ANDREW SEYBOLD
Andy Seybold has spent more than two decades analyzing, editorializing and
consulting in high-technology industries. Author of several books, he is
president of Andrew Seybolds Outlook 4Mobility, a newsletter and conference
firm, as well as senior partner in the consulting firm Andrew Seybold Consulting
Group, LLC. He is editor-in-chief of Forbes/Andrew Seybolds Wireless
Outlook, a monthly investment advisory newsletter, and a founder and
permanent board member of the Portable Computer and Communication Association,
which develops and promulgates standards for wireless data communications.
ABOUT EDMOND LEGUM
Edmond Legum entered the field of telecommunications in 1984 as vice president
of American Phone Centers, responsible for all advertising, merchandising
and sales training. He founded Edmond-Howard in 1986, specializing in sales
training, management training, and marketing support services for the telecomm
industry. Since 1991, he has worked extensively within the wireless field,
serving industry leaders domestically and abroad. Legums works in English,
Spanish and French are currently in use in the U.S., South America and Canada.
Among them is New Directions in Wireless: Retail Sales: a self-directed
sales training program for managers and salespeople designed to increase
profitability and efficiency of retail wireless sales.
OTHER PRINCIPALS
Bob Chapin and Maxine Carter-Lome are the principals of Wireless Marcom, L.L.C.,
a strategic marketing and market research company working with wireless technology
companies. As associate publisher and editorial director of Cellular Marketing magazine,
Chapin created the first national cellular industry sales training program.
Over the last 20 years, Carter-Lome has held senior marketing management
positions with several leading wireless industry technology companies and
has been the editor of such industry trade publications as Cellular Marketing
and Wireless for the Corporate User magazine, Carter-Lome is also the
author of Wireless Communications 101: A Primer for Project Managers.
Barney Dewey, a partner in the Andrew Seybold Consulting Group
LLC and Andrew Seybolds Outlook 4Mobility, has 30-year technology
track record, including 10 years at Motorola designing and implementing
large-scale wireless communications systems. At Apple Computer,
he was responsible for communications and connectivity strategies
and products for the Newton handheld and the peripheral products
marketing group. Linda Seybold is managing editor of Forbes/Andrew
Seybolds Wireless Outlook and is an Outlook 4Mobility
officer.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Bob Chapin
303-697-7550
bob@wirelessmarcom.com
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