With Major Marketing and Support Enhancements to SmartBiz, Calix Enables Broadband Providers To Accelerate Growth for 40 Million Small Businesses
Calix SmartBiz enables broadband providers in
SmartBiz is a purpose-built small business solution that opens new revenue opportunities for BSPs to serve small businesses (approximately 40 million) across the
Fully integrated for the Calix Broadband Platform, SmartBiz is easy to deploy and simple to manage because it builds on the same platform, workflow, and systems that Calix customers already use to delight their residential subscribers.
Additional updates released today for SmartBiz enable BSPs to:
- Deliver enhanced experiences for small business owners, their employees, and patrons. Calix released support for a secondary wired backup connection to ensure business continuity for critical equipment and transactions. Plus, the ability to retain existing primary SSID during onboarding helps BSPs reduce initial setup time and effort with minimal business disruption.
- Unlock the small business broadband market with deeper go-to-market insights. Updates to Calix Engagement Cloud help BSPs better identify and engage high-potential SmartBiz prospects. New insights provide an easy-to-use view of a BSP’s share of business subscribers, allowing them to clearly understand and target the market. New data lenses showcase SmartBiz growth trends and enable broadband marketers to boost campaign effectiveness with more targeted and relevant business subscriber engagement.
- Easily manage their small business accounts with extended support insights and capabilities. Calix Service Cloud released more support capabilities for SmartBiz so BSPs can improve efficiency for small business owners with extended service management and support tools. Now BSP customer service representatives can remotely set up staff time limits for access and secondary Ethernet WAN connection for resilience, allowing them to help small business owners make modifications or troubleshoot their service experience remotely.
Smart Start for Managed Services—part of the award-winning Calix Customer Success Services team—empowers BSPs to plan, launch, support, and grow SmartBiz quickly and confidently. A growing number of Calix customers are successfully leveraging SmartBiz and the Smart Start program. DirectLink expects to more than double their SmartBiz subscribers in
“When it comes to broadband, small businesses are often tied down to long-term, expensive enterprise packages or cheaper alternatives with little-to-no flexibility," said
“Our BSP customers continue to grow their SmartBiz wins at incredible rates,” said
Watch the webinar replay, “Setting Big Targets for Small Business Growth in 2024? Hear How DirectLink Built a Winning Strategy,” to learn more.
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