CRM Terminology: Words That Don’t Mean What You Think
IPv6: Roomier, Cheaper, & Faster
This month, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) announced that there are no more “large” IPv4 address blocks available to assign to North American organizations that need them. Today, ARIN has available fewer than 275 of the smallest block size (a /24, or 256 IPv4 addresses).https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html
It’s time for stragglers to adopt IPv6, which provides a virtually infinite number of IP addresses. Read more »
Mark Welch: Channel Sales Development, Hurricane Electric Internet Services
Lead Registration, Agents vs. Direct, and “Ink Wins” (Channel Partner Program)
“I work with all of the carriers, and [none of them] will not let us sell an account just because the direct team has ‘registered’ it. They run on an ‘ink wins’ policy Read more »
Bandwidth Prices Drop 90% Every 5 Years?
Wow! Here’s an interesting chart from drpeering.net, showing the decline in internet transit (bandwidth) prices over the past two decades. Read more »
EOQ: End of Quarter Specials
I’m always intrigued to hear about remarkable special pricing offered by some vendors’ sales teams in order to report new business for the current quarter or the current fiscal year.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Wow. I just realized that I’ve been reading one book for more than a year, and I’m still not even half-done.
The book is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Of course, I’ve read dozens of other books during this time.
Don’t get me wrong — it’s a really good, really interesting book — but it constantly forces me to think, and sends my brain into a tailspin of distraction. Read more »