Verio Delivers Webinar Series, Providing Training Resources to viaVerio Reseller Community

October 19, 2006; 12:16 AM

Centennial, Colo. – Verio today announced it is offering weekly training sessions to its extensive network of hosting resellers around the world. These Web-based training sessions are designed to encourage online interaction between viaVerio® Partner Program experts and new resellers on a range of topics that help to serve the small and midsized business market. Existing resellers will benefit from training sessions on new Web hosting and managed services being rolled out to the viaVerio community.

The viaVerio Partner Program provides SMB resellers with access to a variety of high-value hosting and managed services, as well as volume discounts, private label opportunities, and technical, sales and marketing support. Resellers can rely on the viaVerio training series to enhance the portfolio of services they offer to meet their clients’ needs. The interactive sessions demonstrate how resellers can combine Verio hosting solutions with their own value-added services, such as Web site development, programming and consulting. Ongoing training and communication with Verio’s channel team can help transform a viaVerio reseller’s business to realize more profitable, low-maintenance business opportunities in the SMB Web hosting and managed services market.

Each Webinar includes a teleconference and Web-based content, and is concluded with a question and answer session. A sample of Webinars currently being offered includes:

• New Reseller Training – A “jumpstart” program introduction for new viaVerio resellers, covering everything a reseller needs to get started, including a product overview, as well as tips on marketing and managing opportunities
• Reseller Sales Training – Basic sales techniques for continued revenue growth, including needs analysis, determining a solution, closing and upsell opportunities
• Reseller Business Tools– An introduction to Verio’s customer tracking tool that can help drive business for resellers with targeted product bundles, and also assist resellers with business management, such as accounting and reporting
  

Additional Webinars currently available offer training on specific Verio product offerings and technical training on various reseller tools. New product-related Webinars will be added to the schedule as new product offerings are launched to the viaVerio program.

“The success of the viaVerio Partner Program is essential to Verio’s success. We take our reseller partners’ needs and goals very seriously, and will continue to invest in the program to ensure their growth,” said Harry Hollines, vice president of channels and business development at Verio. “Feedback from our reseller community indicates that they value our expertise in and knowledge of hosting services, and look to us to be a trusted advisor to help grow their business. Our viaVerio Webinar series is a perfect example of our commitment to provide ongoing support to our network of channel reseller partners.”

viaVerio resellers can register for the Webinar training sessions on the viaVerio Web site. More information can be found at www.viaverio.com/index.cfm?page_id=44.

About Verio

Verio Inc. is a leading provider of Web hosting and managed services serving the online business needs of SMB companies and partners worldwide, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT America, US subsidiary of NTT Communications, which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. The company focuses on how to help companies and partners achieve their business goals with functional hosting solutions, applications and services that enable them to drive success online. Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network, and provides business solutions to customers and partners in more than 146 countries. More information can be found at www.verio.com.

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