Storm Piles More New Snow on Colorado Ski Country

Colorado's Ski Season Getting Dumped On!
Denver, Colo. –
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Powder continues to descend on ski resorts throughout Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) as winter in the Rocky Mountains shifts into high gear. Ahead of what looks to be another great week of skiing and snowboarding, winter storms have again brought new snowfall to all 21 CSCUSA member resorts. Up to 22 inches of new snow has fallen in the last 48 hours, with steady accumulation expected to continue through Sunday.

Resorts in the western and southwestern areas of Colorado saw the most new snowfall from this mid-week weather system. Wolf Creek received 22 inches, while Telluride and Powderhorn each registered 18 inches of snowfall during the two-day period. Other resorts in the region also fared well, with Durango Mountain Resort recording 7 inches and Crested Butte and Silverton Mountain each welcoming 4 inches of new snowfall. Resorts in the central mountains of Colorado were also reporting significant new snowfall totals.

Aspen Mountain and Snowmass both recorded 10 inches of new snow, while Buttermilk and Aspen Highlands each measured 8 inches of fresh powder. In addition, this latest storm also brought an impressive 11 inches of new snow to Monarch, 7 inches of powder fell at Sunlight Mountain, and Ski Cooper added 5 inches of new snow. Further north, Steamboat saw 7 inches of fresh powder and Winter Park Resort welcomed 3.5 inches. Copper Mountain, Loveland, Eldora, and Howelsen Hill each received 2 inches of fresh snowfall during the 48-hour span, while Arapahoe Basin and Ski Granby Ranch each received one inch of new snow. More great skiing and snowboarding is on tap for the week’s end and into next week with another round of winter storms expected to bring significant snowfall to Colorado.

Knowing how to ski safely in deep snow is essential to having a fun day out in the powder. Visit http://www.coloradoski.com/page/ski-safety for helpful tips and to learn the Know Your Responsibility Code, the list of best practices to ensure your safety on the mountain. Keep up to date on snowfall totals with the CSCUSA snow report updated by the resorts themselves: http://www.coloradoski.com/snow-report



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The Case For Face To Face Networking, Sales Tips For New Business!

The problem with events today is that the focus is on event planners turning a profit- and not on driving ROI for each attendee.

With rules like no sponsorships until you exhibit or no social networking opportunities or even zero promotion of attending companies leading up to the event—it’s impossible as an investor in the event to determine the real value. We need to look at attendees as investors. I come from the business world—I come from telecom—the industry that combines technology with the need for communications—and with this background, my team and I create events for my fellow telecom business professionals. Each of our attendees are investors—and the event is our company—it’s our brand—and we need our investors to get real value and that critical trust factor from our brand.

So how do we do it? We provide technology to let them network ahead of time—before they walk through the doors of the event. So they have a list of prospect or partner meetings – a timetable of business opportunities—before they even walk in the door. What does that do for me, the event planner? By actually driving the success of your investors—you are driving the success of your brand. You are ensuring that they will walk away with fresh contacts- leads for them to nurture—which can ideally turn into deals and real revenue for them.

If we consider our event as a multiple-leads generation tool that all our investors are committing to—then we have a successful event—one where folks will register early, will not swap out or cancel their ticket days before the event due to calendar conflicts—one that they will love from start to finish- and one they will easily sign up for again next year or quarter. It’s about creating an environment to grow business. So there needs to be a real study on meeting management at events. It’s not about showing a list of company or sponsors names and saying – “you are all in the same room, find each other and see if by the time you actually hunt that person down, you have enough energy and time to actually talk business in a crowded room.”

It’s about creating face-to-face meetings in an environment appropriate for business. This new message and pre-planning requires time and thought well ahead of the event dates. So what technology drives pre-thought, this pre-planning for face-to-face, on-site meetings? As an event planner, I was looking for this technology back in 2003—before facebook, before myspace, heck, before widely-distributed blackberries. And I was looking in vain. There was no such technology. Even the financial guys on Wall Street were resorting to timely-planned emails to folks they already knew a few days before the show—but there was no way (unless events gave out their attendee emails out right, which caused a lot of unwanted spamming and overall irritation) to successfully network before an event. That’s when I met with my IT director at the time and sat down and created the first iteration of what is now known as DealCenter.

DealCenter is a platform where we can keep all attendee contact details—safe and secure—where folks can log in, sort this list of other registrants, view their profiles, and if they have services and products in their particular area/region, contact them – via the DealCenter system—to plan a meeting at a particular time and location during the show. Since 2003, the DealCenter system has gone through many iterations, incorporating latest technologies and social media tools. Now, and new for 2012, our newest version combines ease-of-use with a powerful, fast machine, to offer the fastest—google-esque searching capabilities with facebook-esque participant profiles. Also new for 2012, we have a mobile site that takes face-to-face networking on the go for all our investors. And it’s not just the brawn of the platform, it’s the brains of our team.

DealCenter team members are available throughout the use of the platform to offer live and fast support. We are also on-site helping to foster these meetings in a dedicated area, often near the exhibit floor, where we direct meeting participants to their pre-assigned, numbered table. We help facilitate on-site impromptu meetings as well, for those attendees who would like to use a table for a period of time, to have a business meeting with someone they just met on the floor.


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As always, no matter what type of capacity you need, Integra delivers the superior customer experience you deserve.

Dynamic, Integrated Service – Allocate bandwidth dynamically for data services when your network is not used for voice traffic with Integra’s SIP Trunking service. Our service integrates your voice and data traffic and eliminates the expense of separate networks, while providing a standard platform for current and future multimedia applications.

•Dependable and Secure Private Network — Integra’s high performance network connects all your locations over a private IP/MPLS network with 99.999% network availability. Voice, data and Internet traffic converge over a single network, providing rapid, reliable and secure access to all of your employees regardless of their location.

•Flexible Bandwidth and Access Options — Integra offers a variety of access technologies to provide just the right amount of bandwidth for your applications and traffic to all of your business locations.

•Converged Architecture — Integra offers the networking foundation for your business that allows you to grow, on-demand, with multiple service types: Internet, Voice and MPLS. This scalable platform supports your growing business and can be designed as a fully meshed network to support the needs of multi-location offices.

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Integra EoC Footprint Surpasses 460,000 Businesses

Integra Increases Their Footprint
By Sean Buckley 

Integra is continuing its aggressive Ethernet buildout strategy, expanding its Ethernet over Copper (EoC) network to another 43 fiber-fed ILEC Local Serving Offices (LSOs). Through this expansion, Integra's EoC access service now reaches a total of 187 on-network LSOs, enabling it to reach more than 460,000 businesses in over 140,000 commercial buildings. Providing up to 100 Mbps of bandwidth over existing copper pairs, the expansion accommodates growth in seven of the CLEC's existing markets: California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Minnesota and Colorado.

Brian Washburn, service director, Global Business Network and IT Services for Current Analysis, said in an interview with FierceTelecom that Integra's milestone reflects its move to extend Ethernet into secondary markets that have not been traditional targets for Ethernet deployments. "What's really nice about this for Integra is it is getting Ethernet over Copper into a lot places that are maybe not as well loved as the U.S. East Coast or the Pacific Northwest," he said. Washburn added that Integra will face competitive headwinds from area incumbent telcos, particularly CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), which has been expanding its EoC footprint in many of the markets where Integra provides service.

"The flipside to this is among the incumbent local carriers, CenturyLink is one of the bigger proponents of Ethernet over Copper," he said. "In that respect, it's behaving more like Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) or Frontier (Nasdaq: FTR) and being kind of pro deployment of Ethernet over Copper inside of its carrier incumbent footprint." Data transport is only one part of the EoC equation. Current and new EoC customers can also get access to its broader portfolio of Ethernet-based services, such as its IP/MPLS VPN Solutions, Hosted Voice Services and other managed and cloud services.

While Integra has built a sizeable network that supports a suite of fiber-based Ethernet, EoC has been a key element in extending Ethernet service into areas that it currently can't reach with fiber. Over the past two years, it has been enhancing its EoC portfolio, introducing a 60 Mbps symmetrical EoC service in November 2012 and later a 100 Mbps capability.