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Company News

Bloxx Appoints Industry Expert to Champion UK Enterprise Businesses

In August Martin Hallett joined our sales team as UK Enterprise Sales Manager to provide sales expertise to all our UK resellers who are focused on large enterprises.  In addition Martin will work on identifying and supporting strategic enterprise accounts to advance our significant growth plans which have already seen us become the world’s fastest growing web filtering company.

Hallett has over 25 years sales experience working for leading IT/network security publishers, such as West Coast Labs, a global leader in research, testing and certification for information security products and services, and SC Magazine, the IT security industry de facto publication. In these roles, Martin has established strong links with the vendor community in the UK which will bring substantial benefits to Bloxx, its resellers and enterprise businesses.

You can contact Martin on mhallett@bloxx.com.

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IT2Trust Security Summit 2009

On 16th September in Farum, Denmark, IT2Trust - Bloxx’s Danish distributor - is running its annual security summit.  This summit is an ideal venue for major IT companies to discuss and learn about today’s IT security issues. 

Bloxx will be presenting on Internet Filtering at 9.45am and 2.20pm, and will discuss the issues around secure Internet filtering and the unique benefits of its third generation filtering technology.  The full agenda for the summit called IT Security from a Higher Perspective is available here.

For more information, contact Greg Hewett, EMEA Channel Manager.

Bloxx Spotlight: Iain Slater, Bloxx Client Manager

Iain joined Bloxx back in January 2009 to support existing customers upgrade from CF appliances to new appliances powered by Tru-View Technology and address resilience in larger load customers. Iain, 27, is married with two children – Joshua aged three and a half, and Ailie aged seven months.

After a painful first year studying Mathematics and Sports at Canterbury Christ College, Iain changed his degree and graduated with a Physical Education degree from the University of Brighton.  He had some serious student loan debts due to a preference for warming the bar stool and not the lecture bench at uni, and so decided that teaching PE wasn’t for him. Instead he decided on a career in sales. 

Previously Iain has spent time selling office furniture, motor insurance and first aid courses. He moved to Scotland in 2005, when his employer opened an office in Dundee to expand sales of first aid courses.  He then had a successful career in Recruitment before meeting Eamonn and persuading him to give him a job in IT security – no mean feat.  He thoroughly loves his work, Bloxx and the people he works with.

Iain spends much of his spare time with his wife and kids - as long as they don’t want to watch a musical.  He is currently teaching his son how to ice skate. Iain loves having the occasional beer, playing his Xbox, watching the latest sci-fi or action movie at the cinema and listening to music - as long as it isn’t country.

Channel News

Bloxx Channel Recruitment Initiative

Bloxx is constantly expanding its distributor and reseller channel across the globe and in August launched a campaign to recruit additional IT security resellers across the UK and Ireland. We have introduced many activities to identify and sign up resellers through the UK and Ireland to help support the growing demand for Bloxx’s third-generation Web filtering. 

The following resellers have recently signed up to the Bloxx Channel Programme:

Reseller Spotlight: George Curtis, Network Technology Solutions

NTS (UK) is a network and system integrator specialising in IT security, and providing advice and expertise to public and private sector organisations across the UK.  With offices located in London and Bradford, NTS focus on bringing innovative solutions and new technology offerings to market. 

George Curtis is Sales Manager based in the Bradford office and is responsible for driving sales in the West Midlands, North West England and West Scotland. George made the move to IT security when he joined NTS in 2007.  Previously he was an Account Manager for Trustmarque Solutions.

George graduated from the Leeds Metropolitan University where he studied Economics and spent 10 months getting over student life by traveling across Australia, New Zealand and South America. He started his working life in October 2005.

George, who is 28 years old, is in a long term relationship and is a committed sportsman.  He is player/manager of local five-a-side football team Boca Seniors.  They play every Wednesday if anyone is interested in joining the team or indeed providing much-needed sponsorship (once a sales man, always a sales man)!  George also plays second row for Burley RUFC since moving from Leeds in 2000. He says the highlight of his rugby career was playing against Paul Sculthorpe in a seven’s tournament.  Needless to say George’s team lost.

If you'd like to be considered for this spotlight section, please email us with your biography.

UK Reseller Salesperson Promotion

Bloxx has extended its UK Spring Promotion.  Here’s the deal.  If you sell Bloxx appliances on full price, peace of mind deals before 30 September 2009, we’ll give you free vouchers!  The more you sell the more you’ll get!

To be entitled to this promotion you have to register first - email your full name and company to sales@bloxx.com.  Please place your orders before 30 September 2009, making sure they comply with the terms and conditions here. Make sure you mark your name clearly on all orders place with us.  When we receive payment for the order, we will send the vouchers to you.  A simple, straightforward, no nonsense promotion.

View the full promotion here or contact Peter Heron, UK Channel Manager.

marketing news

Back to School Campaign

As a new academic year approaches, the threat of anonymous proxies continues to rise as does the danger this brings to kids across education facilities.  We all agree that the Internet is an incredibly important and useful resource for education, yet it can also expose students to inappropriate or dangerous content as well as impact productivity as they can waste valuable study time surfing social networking websites or bandwidth-sapping media and music download sites.

Bloxx has several email and direct mail campaigns aimed at educating IT managers working across all levels of education on the dangers of uncontrolled Internet usage and the use of anonymous proxies to bypass web filtering controls. 

Send out these hard-hitting campaigns to your education database today.  Whatever message you want to send out, we can deliver it all.  We can customise any campaign so that it comes from you, including your company’s contact information, logo and overview.  We can create unique URL landing pages so that you can manage and monitor responses and leads generated. We can also do a call out on the recipients, focusing on the responses received and book on-line demonstrations on your behalf.

Contact your Bloxx Channel Manager today and start promoting the benefits of the Bloxx web-filtering solution to your education customers today.

New Bloxx Case Studies

Case studies make great sales tools and there are plenty available for you to use in your marketing campaigns and sales meetings.  The newest case study is about the Bloxx Web filtering solution at New Forest National Park Authority.

New Forest believes the Grass is much Greener with Bloxx Web Filtering

The New Forest National Park Authority is chartered to conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the New Forest National Park, and to promote opportunities for understanding and enjoyment of the park’s special qualities. The authority has over 80 employees, located at the main office at Lymington and at a small office in Lyndhurst.

 “We now have an easy-to-manage, in-house web filtering solution at a significantly lower price that delivers the monitoring power and reporting functionality required to increase user and network protection, and reduce risk and liability.”
Paul Fleetwood, Acting ICT Manager at New Forest National Park Authority

You can view these case studies and more on the Bloxx Website

Tweet with Bloxx!

Bloxx has joined Twitter, the free social networking and micro-blogging service. 

Please follow Bloxx at twitter.com/bloxx to be the first to hear our latest news and comments regarding industry topics.  We would welcome your responses and comments.

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Competitor Information

We recently introduced a new email account to make it easier for you to send us pricing, product and marketing information on our competitors.  Any snippets of information on how these competitors are positioning and selling against our solutions would be wonderful to receive. 

Email your information to us today at competition@bloxx.com and be entered into our prize draw where each month a lucky winner will receive an iPod Nano.

Latest Marketing Campaigns

We have many direct mail and email campaigns available for you to send out to your contact database.

Whether you want to target education, local government or health markets, we can provide a campaign for you.  We can make changes to our artwork to include your company’s contact information, logo and overview.  Or we can supply artwork files that you can adapt yourself.  We can create unique URL landing pages so that you can manage and monitor responses and leads generated.

We also have resource available to help you maximize the response from any campaign through telephone follow up.  This follow up can take place by our Channel Manager either on your site or by our business development team based in our head office.

Contact your Bloxx Channel Manager today and start promoting the benefits of the Bloxx web-filtering solution to your customers today.