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Cherie Howlett

Cherie has over 15 years’ experience in IT marketing and was promoted to Head of Marketing for MDNX post purchase of Griffin. She was Marketing Manager for 5 years and Head of Marketing for Griffin for 2 years setting up a marketing department and strategy for connectivity, data networks and cloud-hosted solutions. During her time at Griffin, the company won 7 Channel ISP of the year awards, 5 Sunday Times Tech Track 100 awards, 2 Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA awards, 1 Deloitte Fast 50 award and 1 Channel Expo award. Cherie built brand awareness in the channel from 0% to 95% using an integrated strategy consisting of online, print, electronic and face to face marketing. Cherie had previously spent 2 years in a Marketing Manager’s role at Pipemedia before it sold to Business Serve in 2006. At Pipemedia she built a VoIP brand called PipeCall using a combination of PR, direct marketing and an online ordering and provisioning portal with plug and play hardware and electronic point of sale units. Cherie’s early career was in International Marketing working for software house AceCad Software and IBM in the European sales division.

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Growing IT support companies

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 18-Nov-2015 09:44:50

Local IT Support

Many local IT support companies supply cabling and PC support to local SMEs. Typically with several hundred customers, they operate within a couple of hours drive of the office but will go farther afield if required and for the right size job. A lot of their income comes from one-off projects however they have a reasonable base of customers that pay monthly to support their office IT.  Monthly recurring revenues help to grow the business and cover costs between projects.

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5 reasons to partner with Jola for mobile

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 13-Nov-2015 17:07:14

1. We only offer SIM-only packages.

Jola has the best deal on Vodafone mobile SIMs neatly packaged - RegularSIM, LargeSIM and SuperSIM. We offer unlimited standard UK minutes, unlimited texts and 20GB of 4G data as well as inclusive minutes to non-geographic numbers. We partner with IT support and telecommunications companies with customers looing to break the tethering of airtime and handset contracts.

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Topics: Mobile

Could your customers benefit from fibre broadband?

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 13-Nov-2015 17:03:11

Fibre broadband is faster than copper broadband but is that the only benefit for your customers?

Access to hosted apps - work remotely as if in the office

Remote workers upgrading to fibre broadband can access useful business applications hosted in the cloud, such as Microsoft Office 365, JolaPhone cloud voice and Xero online accountancy packages. The benefit here is that they can work from home as if they were in the office, making and receiving calls and accessing, editing and saving corporate documents. Team members in the office can even see if their colleagues working from home are online or on the phone before making contact.

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Topics: Internet

How could nursing homes benefit from hosted telephony?

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 05-Nov-2015 10:48:45

There are over 20,000 nursing homes in the UK providing residential care to older people, with an average of 40 residents per home. Qualified nurses provide care to residents, some of whom are eligible for NHS funding with the rest being privately funded.

Quality of care is a primary focus and some nursing homes are introducing IT to help improve communication.

One of Jola's Partners recently installed fibre broadband into a nursing home with four sites in Reading. They replaced the existing phone lines and installed four phones into each site. They also provided staff with tablets loaded with appropriate software to log medical notes. The care homes are now all on one phone system and key nursing staff use their mobiles as a desk extension to make and receive calls on the go.

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Topics: Hosted telephony

3 questions to ask yourself when upgrading internet

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 05-Nov-2015 10:41:13

1. Why upgrade your customers' connectivity?

You are trusted advisers - your customers prefer to buy from you. If you also manage their connectivity you can keep your competitors out and use the faster, more reliable connection to move applications and data into the cloud. You can also increase your recurring revenues, helping you to fund business growth.

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Topics: Internet

Need a phone system quickly?

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 21-Oct-2015 19:31:00

Have you ever had a customer ring you up in a panic needing a phone system double quick?

It happens more often that you might think. Moving offices can be as stressful as moving house and with so much to think about telephony often falls through the cracks. Growing businesses with new starters and nowhere to seat them, often need to find premises quickly and be up and running in days. 

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Topics: Hosted telephony

Who are SMEs turning to for internet connectivity?

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 16-Oct-2015 12:25:00

IT and telecommunications suppliers

A recent survey by SIR suggested that half of SMEs would talk to their local IT supplier when considering communications purchases however very few of them sell and support the products their customers are interested in. The rest turn to their telecommunications providers who are ahead of the game in many ways already supplying internet connectivity and traditional and hosted telephony.

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Topics: Internet

Technologies which may help your customers - VoIP

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 06-Oct-2015 19:34:25

IT Support companies spend a lot of their time talking to their customers about something that isn't working properly. They work to ensure things don't break and then fix them if they do. The time they spend on site and the importance of IT to their customers means that they are usually trusted more than any other supplier. Surveys have shown that SMEs favour buying cloud-based solutions from suppliers with an IT/data background, however few IT Support companies sell cloud voice or the quality connectivity required to enable it. 

So why should you consider broadening your IP portfolio to include connectivity and VoIP?

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Topics: Internet

5 things you should know about JolaMobile

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 06-Oct-2015 19:03:00

1. SIM-only

JolaMobile is a SIM-only service. By not including a handset you get a much better deal - prices start at £9.50 per month.


2. Monthly contracts

By moving to JolaMobile SIMs you can keep all your employees on the same cancellation period - 30 days as Jola offers monthly rolling contracts.

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Topics: Mobile

10 reasons to partner with Jola

Posted by Cherie Howlett on 02-Oct-2015 14:03:00

10 reasons to partner with Jola

  1. We have over 15 years' experience running a channel ISP
  2. We have access to all the major network operators
  3. Our prices are really competitive
  4. We have the best deal on Broadsoft hosted voice seats and Vodafone SIMs
  5. We have an easy quoting tool for access to all options and prices in minutes
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Topics: Jola Cloud Solutions Ltd

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