VOTE FOR TELARUS! (VOTING CLOSES THIS FRIDAY!) 
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Every year the popular Telecom Association hosts a "Members Choice" awards ceremony.  Telarus, the parent company of ShopforT1.com, has been nominated as top commercial telecom master agency.  We are honored by this nomination, and sincerely covet the award for many reasons - the most important reason being increased leverage with our vendors. Winning this award will help us negotiate for better commission, better support, and other key concessions that we pass on directly to you!

All you need to do to cast your vote is follow these steps:

1. Go to http://www.TAjoin.com
2. Sign up to become a member
3. Check your email for the "verify" link
4. Once you verify, you should be able to modify your
profile, which is where your votes are stored (and counted)

The process isn't super-intuitive, so if you need help please email me (Robert Probst) at robert@telarus.com.  The winner will be announced in Las Vegas on March 4, but the actual ballots must be cast by Friday, February 9, so please be sure to vote THIS WEEK!  Helping us help you is the key to our success as a group!

FEBRUARY CONFERENCE CALL
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Please join us for a LIVE training conference call:

Conference Call Details
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WHEN: Thursday Evening, February 22, 2007
TIME: 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific.
NUMBER: (404) 920-6611 PIN: 650265
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If you can not attend the call, know that we will post an  mp3 version of the call to our Audio Training Center:

http://agent.shopfort1.com/leadgenerator/training_audio_library.cfm

Since the call format is .mp3, you can download the call to your iPOD so you can listen to it in your car on the way to work or listen to the streaming version right from your PC or laptop.

AGENT SPOTLIGHT
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We want to acknowledge and congratulate the Top VAR Equipment Lead Generators for January: Terry Johnson of Wibaux, Montana! Terry has done a terrific job driving telecom equipment leads for Avaya, Nortel, and Mitel.  When the VARs in our program close these sales, Terry will receive a commission on the deal.  Likewise,
if any of Terry's leads orders a T1 later on, Terry will also receive a residual commission on that sale as well. Congratulations Terry for an awesome month!

Recently, Patrick Oborn put together some more equipment lead generation sites that can give you so more ideas/HTML code you can use:

http://patrickoborn.com/new_used_pbx_phone_system.cfm
http://pkconsulting.com/ip_pbx_phone_system.html

Just be sure to replace the "?telid=telarus" with "?cogid=mars112" in your "Post" statement so our tracking software can credit you with the equipment lead you generate!

NEW T1 COMMISSION REPORT COMPLETED 
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Our IT team has been busy re-working your T1 Commission Report so that you can see the commission you receive for each "role" that you play, either as Lead Generator or the upline of the lead generator.  This should clear up some confusion on the ShopforT1 commission structure.  The new report can be found
here:

http://agent.shopfort1.com/leadgenerator/reports_t1_commission.cfm

Just so that you have the information handy, here is how we split commissions received from T1 vendors:

Overhead = 32%
Closer   = 51%
Lead Generator        = 16%
Lead Generator Upline = 1%

As you can see, the closer and the lead generator split the commission paid to agents approximately 75%/25%, which is a raise from the original split of 85%/15%.  Bonuses, or SPIFFS, we receive are split up different:

Overhead = 0%
Closer   = 75%
Lead Generator        = 25%
Lead Generator Upline = 0%

Yes, you read that correctly, 100% of all bonuses we earn are passed through to the two agents who found and closed the sale!  About 25% of all sales we make have SPIFFs attached to them, so the program is even more lucrative than you ever thought possible.

Last year, our monthly billing (the combined amount of all of our customer's bills) was $1,000,000 at this time.  Today, 12 months later, that number is now $2,000,000.  We expect it to hit $3,000,000 by August 2007, and $4,000,000 by January 2008. That kind of billing volume means we pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars each month in commission to agents.  We hope that you'll re-double your efforts to make sure that a nice piece of that money is headed in your direction.  If you need assistance manish, please don't hesitate to contact me!  I am here to help you grow your business - that is my full-time job!

Conclusion
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manish, I appreciate your participation in the ShopforT1/Cognigen agent program. With the addition of the VAR program, ShopforT1 offers a wealth of opportunities for you to make money.

Just to review:

1. Generating DSL/T1/DS3/OC3 leads (that our 'closers' close for you)
2. Generating telecom equipment leads (that our VARs close for you)
3. Recruiting VARs (who receive equipment leads and generate T1 leads)
4. Recruiting other lead generators
5. Recruiting master agents who can private label GeoQoute
6. Recruiting new closers

Without question, there has never been a better time to get involved in the ShopforT1/VARNetwork commercial telecom sales program than now. 2007 will be a monster year (as I mentioned above) and I want you to share in this wealth machine manish.

We look forward to spending some time with you on the conference call Thursday, February 22. Thanks for being such a valuable member of the agent family! I appreciate the opportunity to work with you!

Warm regards,

Robert Probst
Affiliate Program Director
ShopforT1.com, a Division of Telarus Inc.
Cognigen Commercial Services Partner
robert@telarus.com