{"id":11001,"date":"2019-04-15T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ooma_white_label_allows_for_higher_value_and_higher_margin.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:29:04","slug":"ooma-white-label-allows-for-higher-value-and-higher-margin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/ooma-white-label-allows-for-higher-value-and-higher-margin.html","title":{"rendered":"Ooma White Label Allows For Higher Value and Higher Margin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ooma%20team.jpg\" alt=\"ooma team.jpg\" width=\"447\" height=\"529\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout three years ago we started to create a channel for VARs going after SMBs or the micro SMB marketplace,\u201d Said Rob Ferrer (pictured below), VP\/ CRO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/query\/searchresults.aspx?searchstring=ooma&amp;Action.x=0&amp;Action.y=0\">Ooma<\/a>. \u201cThanks to the acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.ooma.com\/investors\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2018\/Ooma-Agrees-to-Acquire-Voxter-Provider-of-Advanced-UCaaS-Solutions-for-Businesses\/default.aspx\">Voxster<\/a>, we have strong bespoke capabilities \u2013 giving us a reliable and redundant global communications infrastructure \u2013 more like CPaaS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/Rob%20Ferrer.jpg\" alt=\"Rob Ferrer.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<p>He explained OOMA Enterprise also has a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitelabelhostedvoip.com\/articles\/441894-ooma-unveils-white-label-opportunity.htm\">white-label<\/a> offering, allowing partners to be successful. He told us one of the largest fast-serve franchises in the world is a customer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOoma is giving me the flexibility I need to grow my business and build my brand,\u201d said Glen Simon, president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/country-communications-inc-\/about\/\">Country Communications<\/a>, an Ooma Enterprise partner in Toronto, Canada. \u201cI can focus on providing the service my customers want instead of trying to force a \u2018one-size-fits-all\u2019 solution down their throats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rob said, \u201cWe have taken the foundational components and brought in new people \u2013 to help partners do things like have branding in the UCaaS relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The idea here is to allow MSPs to sell a suite of solutions or bundles \u2013 managed WiFi and phone for example. They allow partners to monetize a few ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ooma-office-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/04\/ooma-office-blog-thumb-500x298-16954.jpg\" alt=\"ooma-office-blog.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTypical solutions don\u2019t have the customizability,\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is partners own the customer relationships in a white-label or white-label style relationship. This allows the partner to worry less about FCC regulations and taxes for example.<\/p>\n<p>He told us the partner deals with the payment gateway and billing.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cThe flexibility of our solution, we\u2019re going to build capabilities and add APIs so they can choose what and how to deploy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Resellers who want to go above and beyond just simple resale should take a look at Ooma, the flexibility they provide allows the channel and MSPs to put together higher-value and higher-margin solutions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Allocate your 2020 budget here!&nbsp;<span>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/east\/registration.aspx\">Register<\/a>&nbsp;now.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Learn about the latest in UCaaS,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cvxexpo.tmcnet.com\/east\/\">the Channel<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mspexpo.com\/\">MSPs<\/a>, IT,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligentedgeexpo.com\/\">Edge<\/a>, Cybersecurity, AI,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sd-wanexpo.com\/east\/\">SD-WAN<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iotevolutionexpo.com\/east\/\">IoT<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.futureofworkexpo.com\/\">Future of Work<\/a>at the world&#8217;s only #TechSuperShow,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\/\">ITEXPO<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;Feb 12-14, 2020 Fort Lauderdale, FL.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/itexpo%202019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/02\/itexpo 2019-thumb-500x375-16777.jpg\" alt=\"itexpo 2019.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbout three years ago we started to create a channel for VARs going after SMBs or the micro SMB marketplace,\u201d Said Rob Ferrer (pictured below), VP\/ CRO, Ooma. \u201cThanks to the acquisition of Voxster, we have strong bespoke capabilities \u2013 giving us a reliable and redundant global communications infrastructure \u2013 more like CPaaS.\u201d He explained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,160,183,199,200,189,118,177,191,192],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions\/11688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}