Solid Source Realty Saves $65,000 Annually Using Cbeyond

March 6, 2007; 12:53 AM
Solid Source Realty, named Atlanta’s fastest growing company in 2006 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, recently announced it is achieving cost savings of $65,000 per year and supporting its rapid growth by using managed services from Cbeyond, a managed services provider to small businesses and a leader in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

In 2003 Michele Shoda, broker and principal owner of Solid Source Reality, signed-up for Cbeyond’s BeyondVoice™ service, an integrated package of voice, mobile and broadband Internet services. The company’s online account management tool, CbeyondOnline™, immediately caught Shoda’s attention. CbeyondOnline™ gives Shoda a real-time, self-administration portal providing her with complete control of the company’s account, alleviating the hassles of managing technology and simplifying bill payment. Additionally, Cbeyond’s ease of use has eliminated the previously planned addition of a full-time, dedicated network staff member.

“As a small business owner, I chose to invest in technology and hire fewer support personnel, which results in at least $65,000 in annual savings,” said Shoda. “Cbeyond makes managing technology and systems networking so easy that we don’t need a full-time, dedicated network person working on-site.”

Solid Source Reality started with 30 brokers and a single location in 2003, and sought out a service provider that could provide mission-critical communications services to its growing organization. The company experienced explosive growth, increasing revenue 385 percent by year-end 2005, and claiming the title for the largest residential real estate brokerage office in Georgia. The company grew to 1,200 Realtors in six locations in 2006. According to Shoda, Cbeyond has proven to be a flexible service provider that can scale with Solid Source Reality as her business grows, while still offering reliability and affordability.

“Now more than ever, small businesses are seeking to leverage technology once reserved for big businesses,” said Brooks Robinson, chief marketing officer for Cbeyond. “Today we are helping more than 27,000 small businesses use communications services to increase the efficiency of their organization and ultimately help them succeed. Solid Source Reality is doing just that.”

In addition to Cbeyond’s core voice and broadband services, Solid Source Realty also relies on Cbeyond’s fax-to-email, secure PC backup, BlackBerry® and web-mail capabilities to help streamline transactions for its clients. Today Shoda’s brokers can view documents on their BlackBerry and rest assured that important faxes, like signed contacts, are stored and backed-up.

“Time and again Cbeyond has delivered on its promise of reliability, performance and ease of use,” said Shoda. “I recommend Cbeyond to other entrepreneurs who value their mission-critical communications services.”

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) is a managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of local and long-distance voice along with mobile and broadband Internet services to more than 27,000 small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and San Diego. Cbeyond offers more than 20 productivity-enhancing applications including BlackBerry®, voicemail, email, Web hosting, fax-to-email, data backup, file-sharing, and VPN. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100-percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net.