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The market for business VoIP is growing at a phenomenal pace. AMI Partners, a market research firm, says there are more than 35 million small businesses with less than 100 employees worldwide. In 2005, more than $12 billion dollars will be spent on networking and telecom related infrastructure. By 2010, it is expected that nearly $19 billion will be spent on voice and data products for small businesses.

At first glance, VoIP can look like a confusing marketplace with many vendors claiming to do similar things. For example, you are probably already familiar with the consumer grade VoIP offering being advertised on TV. If you have ever experienced one of these services you already recognize that may they save money but lack the features, quality and reliability required of a business phone solution.

Traditionally, there have been three ways the telecommunications have been delivered to the small and midsized business: (1) Traditional phone service and a phone system (PBX) from a third party, (2) VoIP PBX from one company with Internet phone service from another company or (3) Hosted VoIP PBX over the Internet. So far none of these approaches can deliver the feature set, quality, reliability or even the savings that a small to midsized business requires.

With this vast marketplace of pent up demand and no real suitable solution to satisfy this tremendous need, Star2Star invested millions of dollars and assembled several of the top scientists, architects and developers in the United States to bring to market the World's Most Reliable Business Grade Internet Phone Solution with fully integrated end-to-end monitoring and management of your customer's critical business telecommunications.

Star2Star provides a product that is inherently local and requires a local dealer presence to be properly sold, installed and supported. Recognizing that it often takes a team approach to properly penetrate and sell a market with a product as broad as the Star2Star solution we have come up with a two level dealer program that allows companies at all levels of scale and sophistication to participate in the sales and installation of the Star2Star solution. As a certified Star2Star Dealer you will have all of the tools and support to deliver the promise of this evolving telecommunications marketplace to the multitude of small businesses in your territory with a phone system that has the industry's most powerful features, exclusive 24/7 monitoring, and quality connections for every call - all at about half the cost traditional phone carriers charge. The Star2Star Dealer Program offers dealers and their employees: training, certification, and a generous incentive program. We will empower you to quickly capture your share of this fast growing marketplace. With Star2Star you will not get bogged down in the complexity of trying to do this with service coming from one company and systems from another.

We made the fundamental decision to provide an End-to-End Architecture - Star2Star is both the phone system's manufacturer and Internet telephone service provider and built both ends together from the ground up. No other vendor provides this complete solution.

This architecture enables many of the Powerful Features that are now being required in this changing world of business telephony. There is Star2Star's Find-Me/Follow-Me option where your office phone can ring at branch locations while ringing your cell phone, home phone or even a laptop softphone. This exclusive Virtual Network advantage with Star2Star allows you to call anyone on your network i.e. multiple office locations or remote employees as a local extension. Our End-to-End Architecture provides a feature we call StarPath that ensures Superior Quality on every call. Star2Star automatically gives voice the highest priority so sound quality is never compromised. Star2Star is the only company with 99.9% Guaranteed Reliability. With StarWatch, our staff and systems monitor the End-to-End Architecture around the clock and by having control and visibility over both ends of the connection. We provide an Automatic 6-way Backup to recover from almost all of the likely causes of a service failure. As a dealer you will have online access to the monitoring system and service desk on behalf of all of the clients you are responsible for 24 hours a day. Dramatic Savings - The Star2Star IP PBX solution is more affordable than other communications systems and typically saves your client up to 50% off their present phone bill. And, finally, price: In most cases, the system and service from Star2Star costs less on a monthly basis than the customer has been paying for their phone service alone.

Single Source Solution - Instead of a science project with parts drawn from different hardware manufacturers and unrelated Internet service providers, with Star2Star you have a single system with a single solution and single point of contact for everything. This provides for a seamless and well thought out installation process with an intuitive web interface and hardware that provisions itself automatically.

Star2Star Financing - Our customer financing plans can usually achieve a lower monthly payment for the system and the service than the traditional phone service has been costing them on a monthly basis. This means that with no out of pocket, your customer can order the Star2Star solution and pay less per month than they do today and get all of the benefits of VoIP 2.0.

Star2Star Sales Support - Our sales support process is as creative and well thought out as the solution we are selling and we are committed to constant improvement in our process and materials. All dealers will as a matter of policy use one of our phone systems which allows them to become a seamless part of the phone network with Star2Star and their customers. We are implementing a CRM system which will join the entire virtual selling team together with the phone system and allow for leads to be properly distributed and managed among the Star2Star channel. With a generous referral program, advertising, seminars, a strong web presence, trade shows and effective press relations Star2Star will do its part to generate sales activity in partnership with the dealers. In addition online selling tools, presentations, literature, demos, comparisons, and a forum for dealer support will be available online in the Star2Star dealer portal.

The Future is being Created Now At Star2Star - There is no doubt that Star2Star has come to the marketplace with a solution that is a match for the telecommunications revolution known as VoIP 2.0. What you may not know is that we are already working on VoIP 3.0. With VoIP 3.0 we are bringing about the seamless integration of data, web, phone and virtual meeting technologies with vertical and horizontal applications. This capability will completely alter how business communication will be done. We are actively recruiting hundreds of third party developers to join us in this quest to go beyond simply improving telephony and making it less expensive. We intend to make it disappear into the very fabric of the web pages, productivity tools and information systems that join together to create a very intuitive effective interactive communications tools. We will be able to carry information and context between applications and mediums. The value to you will be a long term unique product offering in the marketplace where the generic and the common place will not be able to complete. The unique value of what you are selling will prevail over time. And you - and your customers -- will benefit.

If you are interested in learning more on how to become a Star2Star Dealer, then simply complete this form, or contact us via email at dealers@star2star.com or telephone at 941.234.0001, ext 113.