{"id":5945,"date":"2007-10-02T17:10:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/phil-hill.html"},"modified":"2007-10-02T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T17:10:33","slug":"phil-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/phil-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"Phil Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Welcome Phil Hill to TMCnet as a columnist. Phil&rsquo;s column is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmcnet\/columnists\/columnist.aspx?id=100110&amp;nm=Phil%20Hill\">Hosted Hearsay<\/a> and his first article is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2007\/10\/02\/2983865.htm\">Small Business VoIP: Is it an Elephant or Gorilla?<\/a> Where he discusses the reason why all SMBs are lumped together.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Here is a salient part of the article:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\">Small Business is a Big Market<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\">While similarities between eating five-toed pachyderms and the small business market may seem a stretch, let&rsquo;s remember that they have one thing in common: they&rsquo;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&rsquo;s settle on this as being the definition of a small business. <\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\">Before you pat yourself on the back and let out a collective exhale of relief, hold on a minute &mdash; you haven&rsquo;t even gotten out your knife and fork yet. The real work hasn&rsquo;t started yet &mdash; at least not for anyone in the small business VoIP market. It&rsquo;s time to start slicing and dicing. <\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I am impressed with Hill&rsquo;s writing and as you recall, I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/hyperconnected.html\">yesterday<\/a> if you want to be considered as a TMCnet columnist drop <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/greg-galitzine\/contact.asp\">Greg Galitzine a line<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Phil Hill to TMCnet as a columnist. Phil&rsquo;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. &nbsp; Here is a salient part of the article: &nbsp; Small Business is a Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,202,172,199,197,188,198,156,189,118,177,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945"}],"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=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}