Cbeyond Extends Relationship with PixelMEDIA; PixelMEDIA Viewed as Trusted Partner and Advisor to Voice and Broadband Services Provider.PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- PixelMEDIA, Inc., a full service professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm focused on Internet-enablement, has announced that Cbeyond, an Atlanta-based managed service provider and a leader in Voice over IP (VoIP), has extended its partnership with PixelMEDIA for the fifth consecutive year. Since 2001, Cbeyond has partnered with PixelMEDIA to help enhance and empower marketing, cost-savings, customer relationships and branding for the company. Most recently, Cbeyond has partnered with PixelMEDIA to develop and implement its upcoming sales and prospect referral program. This application is designed to generate leads from Cbeyond's partners, customers, and the general public. In turn, these groups will be rewarded for referrals. Over the past five years, Cbeyond and PixelMEDIA have shared a rewarding relationship, including the development of Cbeyond's highly successful corporate website. PixelMEDIA continually surprises us with smart, refreshing ways to interact with our customers and partners," said Mary Ford, vice president of Marketing for Cbeyond. "They've brought a personal touch to our Web-enabled tools and applications that are so key to our business relationships. We look forward to continuing this productive relationship as PixelMEDIA has become an integral partner to Cbeyond." Cbeyond continues to make investments to enhance the customer and prospect experience and engages with PixelMEDIA to ensure the successful implementation of each initiative. Recent projects include: --Cbeyond Online (www.cbeyondonline.com) - As one of their first initiatives, Cbeyond turned to PixelMEDIA for the development of CbeyondOnline.net, Cbeyond's Customer Self-Service and Support Portal - where customers can securely log in, view, and manage their own accounts. --Corporate website (www.cbeyond.net). PixelMEDIA engaged with Cbeyond to create a full-featured corporate website and develop a strong online brand presence based on site assessment, competitive analysis, user experience, information architecture, search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden , and customer testimonials. --Cbeyond Insider site development. PixelMEDIA worked with Cbeyond to build an online community in which Cbeyond customers can connect with one another through an animated, interactive "world" where customers can visit, browse, and get access to "Insider" customer benefits and business offerings. "Cbeyond has a special relationship with its customers," said PixelMEDIA co-founder Thomas J. Obrey. "The foundation of their business is based on customer loyalty. It was imperative that the interactions we enabled created a better customer experience. We are proud that they have continued to partner with us to ensure the success of their relationship-building initiatives." About PixelMEDIA PixelMEDIA is an award-winning professional services consultancy focused on Internet-enablement. PixelMEDIA provides the strategic, creative, and technical expertise needed to increase revenue opportunities and reduce costs. Founded in 1994, PixelMEDIA's solutions include branding and transactional Websites, application and portal design and development, user interface design, multimedia design, hosting, and Website management. PixelMEDIA's customers include industry leaders such as ECCO An earlier Windows PIM from NetManage, Inc., Cupertino, CA (www.netmanage.com). ECCO provided a phone book, calendar, to-do list, outlining and notetaking. It was noted for its tightly integrated and sophisticated functions. Shoes, LogicaCMG, Computer Associates, Nokia and Bauer Nike Hockey. More information on PixelMEDIA can be found at www.pixelmedia.com. About Cbeyond Cbeyond (Nasdaq: CBEY CBEY Center for Business and the Environment at Yale ) is an Atlanta-based managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality provider that delivers integrated packages of voice and broadband services See broadband and broadband service provider. to small businesses in Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . Cbeyond offers core communications services like local and long-distance voice and broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a along with enhanced applications, including voicemail, email, Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , data backup, file-sharing, VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. and more. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net. |
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