Phil Hill

October 2, 2007

Welcome Phil Hill to TMCnet as a columnist. Phil’s column is titled Hosted Hearsay and his first article is titled Small Business VoIP: Is it an Elephant or Gorilla? Where he discusses the reason why all SMBs are lumped together.

Here is a salient part of the article:

Small Business is a Big Market

While similarities between eating five-toed pachyderms and the small business market may seem a stretch, let’s remember that they have one thing in common: they’re both very large. According to U.S. Census data, there are 5,083,750 businesses in the U.S. and of these, 4,931,237 have one hundred employees or less. So let’s settle on this as being the definition of a small business.

Before you pat yourself on the back and let out a collective exhale of relief, hold on a minute — you haven’t even gotten out your knife and fork yet. The real work hasn’t started yet — at least not for anyone in the small business VoIP market. It’s time to start slicing and dicing.

I am impressed with Hill’s writing and as you recall, I mentioned yesterday if you want to be considered as a TMCnet columnist drop Greg Galitzine a line.