Dessange is an internationally acclaimed franchisor with over 1000 salons, close to 200 beauty institutes, and eight training centers in 45 countries. The company’s headquarters in the United States are located in Massachusetts, but its salons exist all over the country.So when the chance came to try an internet phone solution, Dessange jumped at the opportunity.Linda Halbruner, senior director of IT for Dessange International Inc., knew something had to change with her old on-premise phone system (PBX). Each of Dessange's 10 PBX-equipped locations required expensive technicians and hours
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DCIT develops point-of-sale and inventory-control software for jewelry retailers. The company's MySQL-based software is designed to be reliable, scalable and easy to use - so it's little wonder DCIT turned to RingCentral for business phone service.DCIT is heavily reliant on its phone system, company founder Raffi Minassian told us. DCIT sells its products through an e-commerce portal, but it offers implementation assistance to new customers over the phone. The firm provides phone-based support on an ongoing basis, as well."Our customers like to call in for tech support," Raffi said. "And about
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Ever tried to find an apartment? It's not a fun process. One RingCentral customer, Apartment Hunters, helps make the apartment-discovery process a little less painful - for people in its central Florida operating area, at least.The firm's service is completely free to use. (Its revenue comes from the apartment communities with which it collaborates.) Apartment Hunters offers an apartment-search portal on its website, and it has retail locations in Tampa, Orlando and Gainesville.Agents are also available to meet with clients at their homes or workplaces. Between site visits
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Hagaman Insurance Group, a life, health and dental insurance brokerage, is located just off the Jersey Shore in the township of Toms River. The town, with its bucolic central business district and miles of water frontage, is normally quiet. But when Hurricane Sandy struck in the fall of 2012, Toms River was anything but peaceful.Dean Pasqua, Hagaman Insurance's technology director, described to us the havoc that Sandy wrought. "Sandy killed us," he said. "We were totally unreachable - clients were screaming at us."Why was the insurance firm hit so hard?
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Most RingCentral customers rely on their phone systems to contact customers, vendors and partners - standard business use cases. But there are some in the RingCentral-verse who have much more innovative ways of making the most of their RingCentral service.RingCentral Superfan Owen McGab Enaohwo is one of the latter. Owen and his business partners are working to build a web app that allows entrepreneurs to easily document their workflow processes. The app, SweetProcess, is designed to give businesses a top-down view of their standard operating procedures (SOPs).The core idea behind
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Maureen Jackson, the controller for Applebee's franchisor Gator Apple, was having a tough time reconciling all the phone bills she received each month. Gator Apple operates 41 Applebee's restaurants in Georgia and Florida, and it had a unique phone system at each location. That meant 41 different phone bills, in different amounts, with due dates at different times of the month.With that kind of complexity, it's little wonder Maureen and Gator Apple decided to investigate other options. Their quest for phone-system simplicity led them to hosted VoIP services, which deliver a single,
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Bill Horton isn't your average insurance broker. He was an amateur drag racer for more than two decades - and he turned that passion into a successful line of business.Bill was working for a large insurance brokerage when he began selling race-car insurance. Bill met enough interested people at drag events to start offering policies for dragsters, he told us.The brokerage changed ownership in 2010, but the national chain that bought it wasn't interested in Bill's
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Most of our Superfans are companies. Some, like BullyingCanada, are nonprofits. And a handful - including the North Carolina Chiropractic Association - are professional organizations.What's unique about the NCCA is its stated mission to serve all North Carolinians by improving the way chiropractic medicine is practiced. The association - North Carolina's only professional group for chiropractors - aims to serve the public through education campaigns, professional-development opportunities for its members and legislative advocacy.[caption id="attachment_8734" align="alignright" width="199"]
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