News in the Channel - October 2022

VALUE ADDED

VOW Wholesale announces enhanced suite of initiatives as part of its service offering

through seamless real-time tracking l VOW Specials for bespoke product sourcing, whereby customers can raise a request via VOW’s Self-Serve Portal, which will then be handled by a dedicated team to source and quote on non-stocked items, saving resellers precious time and resource. “We understand and recognise that times have been tough for our resellers over the past few years, and the challenges seem to keep on coming,” said Adrian Butler, VOW Wholesale MD. “We are determined to support our loyal customers with positive steps forward. We have listened carefully to the open and honest feedback we have received, which has helped us identify some crucial steps towards a more sustainable and collaborative future for resellers, VOW and the industry as a whole. “With our experienced teams behind each initiative, I am excited to see where these developments will take us. We see great positivity for the future, and we will continue to move forward and make improvements utilising the feedback and support we gratefully receive from our valued customers. Now more than ever we are stronger together.”

VOW has announced it is expanding and enhancing its value added services to help customers to weather the current economic climate and rising costs in many areas. On top of its existing service offering, VOW has announced a suite of supportive measures, which includes: l An Incremental Growth Rebate to facilitate improved commercial terms to help soften cost of goods increases. This scheme allows resellers to gain up to a 30% rebate on incremental purchases in the Traditional and Facilities categories l The re-introduction of timed AM dealer drops to provide greater all-round service flexibility and enable qualifying resellers the option to receive deliveries at a time that then allows for better planning of onward delivery on their own vans l Improved order tracking visibility through commencement of end-to-end scanning for all deliveries made via Truline. This development provides complete visibility of all orders within VOW’s Self-Serve Portal,

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Zyxel launches Just Connect campaign

Networking, security and cloud-based management solutions provider Zyxel has

“The whole idea of the Just Connect programme is to get across just how easy it is to deploy and manage Zyxel networking solutions”, said Rachel Rothwell, regional director for the UK and Ireland at Zyxel. “With a growing range of devices that can be pre-configured and automatically installed, and a proven management platform in Nebula, we have a really strong value proposition, both for customers and MSPs. We are already weaving the Just Connect message into our communications and we expect that to raise awareness and boost uptake of Nebula even more.” Zyxel has a really good proposition for MSPs, she added. “We only launched our MSP Evolve partner programme in April and we have already signed- up more than 50 partners. By placing Nebula at the heart of their managed services offering, MSPs can provide a great service and experience for customers, while reducing their own costs and growing their business.” The Zyxel MSP Evolve programme makes it as simple as possible for resellers to get their managed services business up and running. It provides partners with exclusive pre- and post- sales support and access to exclusive educational resources on the Nebula cloud.

launched its Just Connect programme to raise awareness of its easy-to-deploy and manage solutions among end user customers and partners. The campaign places a strong emphasis on Nebula, Zyxel’s managed services platform that provides simple remote monitoring and management of the network from any device. Zyxel has seen exponential growth in the use of Nebula over the past 12 months with many MSPs adopting it as their standard management platform. Across the EMEA region, activation rates and the number of devices registered on Nebula have both grown by more than 100% year-on-year. The Just Connect campaign focuses on SMBs and mid-sized organisations and the partners that target these markets. Part of the campaign targets the education market – a strong area of adoption for Zyxel’s solutions. A schedule of email and social media communications, alongside a series of webinars is now being rolled out. Zyxel has also made sales and marketing resources available to partners and provide rapid onboarding for new partners though its distribution network.

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