Ruth Elizabeth Abbott

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Operations Director, 3CX

Ruth brings more than 20 years of experience in business operations. At 3CX she’s part of the Management team, leading the Recruitment, Operations, HR & Marketing departments. She has a background in Law. Ruth is passionate about helping drive 3CX to the next level.

Forum Now Requires Partner/Customer Account

We’ve made an important change to the way partners and customers can contribute to our forums. In order to post, you must login using your partner / customer account. It is no longer possible to use a separate forum account with a different email address and to post “anonymously”. The reasons are threefold: To give priority to paying customers and partners. To allow partners to [...]

Identifying (Potentially) Difficult Customers

People who have spent a certain amount of time selling to and servicing customers are very quickly able to identify certain patterns in customer behavior, indicating the ones more likely to be difficult to work with than others. Below I’ve listed the most common warning signs that you’ve got a problematic customer on your hands. Customers Who Emit a Bad Vibe This sign is probab [...]

By |February 1st, 2021|Comments Off on Identifying (Potentially) Difficult Customers

3CX Gets Gold at the Comms Business Awards

Hot Off the Press! 3CX has been named UC Platform Supplier of the Year at the 2020 Comms Business Awards, which were held virtually from London this week. Fighting off fierce competition from leading vendors like 8x8, Wildix, and Telcoswitch, the judges awarded the top spot to 3CX’s communications system. Entrants were judged on their commitment to the channel, innovation pipel [...]

Leaders: Track These Six KPIs to Reach Your Goals in 2021

As a sales manager, keeping tabs on your business operations and your team members can be a challenge. After all, no sales manager can be everywhere at once! Instead, your sales representatives need to give you the information required to keep everything running smoothly. It is only by measuring performance through relevant KPIs that you can begin to understand the day to day m [...]

By |January 20th, 2021|Comments Off on Leaders: Track These Six KPIs to Reach Your Goals in 2021

Here they are, the Top Forum Contributors of Q4 2020!

Happy new year everyone! For most of us, this holiday season was a little different from what we're used to. We hope that, despite the circumstances, you all managed to have a relaxing and joyful time. Even after everything 2020 threw at us, the 3CX community continued to grow and our members never stopped asking, advising and supporting its users. Thank you for your contributi [...]

By |January 15th, 2021|Comments Off on Here they are, the Top Forum Contributors of Q4 2020!

Your Greatest Fear: Does 3CX Sell Direct?

You probably don’t know this, but I was a partner at an MSP for many years. I led the charge to find and close new customers and my greatest fear was the vendor taking those customers directly. So I understand why partners always ask if 3CX is taking the end-users directly. 3CX Develops. You Deliver. 3CX does not sell directly to end-users and we don’t plan to in the future. I [...]

SIP Trunk Changes of 2020

2020 was a challenging year for everyone, but here at 3CX, we didn’t let it slow us down. A whole host of interesting features and improvements were introduced that our customers are already enjoying, but there were also changes that were equally important, yet not so obvious. Let’s take a look at what happened behind the scenes: A Fresh Start for Our SIP Trunk Engine One of th [...]

By |January 12th, 2021|Comments Off on SIP Trunk Changes of 2020

Live chat update to make Pop out default

The latest 3CX Live Chat has just been released and makes the pop-out option the default option for handling chats. This avoids any issues that might occur if the visitor navigates away from the page that they are on. The pop-out mode is now enabled by default for new installs using the 3CX Live Chat plugin. Update the plugin and then enable the “Pop out to new window” option. [...]

New Android Beta with Re-designed Messaging Elements

A little gift for our Android users this holiday season, the latest Beta release features re-designed messaging elements for a better experience while chatting. What’s more, there have been numerous enhancements across the board for more refined performance, including optimized contact search and the ability to select and copy text from transcriptions. New chat message input &a [...]

Holidays are Here! 2020 Sales & Support Availability

Hooooooooray! After a long year, the holidays are finally here! We're looking forward to putting our feet up for the festive season and enjoying the relaxing (socially distanced) celebrations. Check out our holiday season availability below for the Sales, Support, and Customer Service teams: Sales 23rd-24th December: Business as usual 25th December: Closed 28th-31st December: B [...]

By |December 16th, 2020|Comments Off on Holidays are Here! 2020 Sales & Support Availability