RICHMOND, VA — March 16, 2015 —The Alliance Partners, the channel partner industry organization that brings together agents, VARs, managed service providers, IT consultants and cloud specialists, today announced that it was honored by CenturyLink Channel Alliance as a 2014 top performing indirect sales channel member.

The Alliance was named the Top Retention Partner, Top Cloud Seller and Top Hosting Partner of 2014 among members of the Alliance’s Premier Elite tier, which is the program’s highest membership level for companies that generate $2.5 million or more in monthly billed revenue from CenturyLink’s services.

“As the channel has made a shift to IT, we have been able to evolve with the technology while still fulfilling the current needs of our partners and customers,” said Richard Murray, immediate past Alliance Partners chair, CenturyLink Channel Alliance advisory board member and CEO of master agency CarrierSales. “Our forward-thinking vision demonstrates our commitment to the channel and our customers, now and in the future. CenturyLink is a core partner for our business, and these accolades validate our formula for ensuring everyone’s success.”

The annual CenturyLink Channel Alliance member awards recognize excellence in sales, customer service and technology expertise, demonstrated by integrating and selling communications and IT services, including voice, data networking, hosting, cloud services and managed services.

“We congratulate and thank the Alliance for its outstanding sales performance and customer dedication in 2014,” said Blake Wetzel, vice president of CenturyLink Channel Alliance. “With CenturyLink’s solutions portfolio, the Channel Alliance members winning our 2014 performance awards are exceeding our expectations and evolving their capabilities to fit how enterprises purchase and consume IT services today.”

For more information, please contact:
Amy Humphreys
Vice President, The Alliance Partners
Email: Amy.Humphreys@thealliancepartners.com
Phone: 804-937-1505

ABOUT THE ALLIANCE
Since 1997, the Alliance (www.agentalliance.net), originally the Agent Alliance, has been a powerful voice for the channel. This diverse industry consortium of shareholders represents all industry sectors, from traditional communications to IT, cloud, storage and virtualization, mobility and converged IP services.

The Alliance is dedicated to fostering best business practices nationwide for the channel ecosystem. It is an important forum for education, collaboration and information-sharing, aimed at helping channel partners evolve their practices to remain competitive. The Alliance is able to leverage the unique and diverse expertise of its formidable member roster to put knowledge into practice in highly pragmatic ways to create an environment of continuous growth and improvement, which benefits partners, suppliers and clients alike.