June 26, 2023

Hurricane Season 2023

Business Connectivity Issues

Republic Voice and Data Will Assist Your Company with Business Connectivity Concerns

Protect your business:  
Businesses need to have a plan to protect their property, their data, and their employees during Hurricane Season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30.

Following is a list of reminders to help businesses prepare for severe weather, to operate in the aftermath and to recover from any damages.

Before a storm hits:

  • Know the best way to contact your employees.
  • Establish a mass notification system so you can notify and get in touch with employees quickly and easily.
  • Protect your business assets. (Take steps to protect your equipment, supplies, products, networks, data and so on. Cover your property and raise it above floor level, when possible.)
  • Identify how you will protect important business documents and inventory that is vulnerable to water damage.
  • Have an emergency business plan that enables operations with various employees at different locations.
  • Backup your data offsite and consider using Cloud based systems. This should include payroll and other systems.
  • Keep employees and customers aware of your plan.
  • Identify a list of available post-disaster resources that you may need to call upon if you need help in reopening your business or obtaining emergency funding to repair damaged property.
  • Be sure you know the address of all of your buildings, including storage facilities.
  • Be sure you have an evacuation plan for each facility.
  • Use sandbags to prevent flooding at all entrances.

*Source is Pasco County Economic Development Council

Many of the above items can be addressed by connecting with Republic Voice and Data (813)984-0800, option 5.   

We look forward to assisting you!

April 11, 2023

sugar AI

Rebranding – sugar AI

We here at Republic Voice & Data would like to say congratulations on the rebranding of Sugar-AI, or you may know them formerly as Sullivan Productions, home of “the Oxi-Clean guy” himself, Mr. Anthony Sullivan. They have been amazing partners for 25 of our 35 years in business!

When asked why the name Sugar.AI, president of the company, Noelle Ray Stoops Crovo, says “It was definitely the brainchild of Sully’s. We went through a lot of different name choices, you know because we wanted something different, something that stood out and as you see through our logo it’s actually indicative of things that we have future capabilities on and what we do now.” She also explained that the blue ‘ar’ in Sugar stands for Augmented Reality, which is a capability that they will continue to work on and where the ‘AI’ is very symbolic of the platforms that they utilize as well as where all their media lives. “The best part about Sugar in our name…” says Noelle, “is that it is super indicative of our culture and how we like to conduct business, which is fun and sweet.”

Just like the upgrading or rebranding of their name, Sugar.AI has also upgraded the use of theirs, as well as their other business, MontKush’s telecommunications system. With our assistance, they were able to switch over seamlessly from their older digital phones to our Hosted phone platform using our Republic Cloud Service.

Thank you again Sugar.AI for being such a valued customer and making these last 25 years so sweet!

Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code gives your business an immediate deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying vehicles and equipment purchased and used during the tax year. This allows a decrease in 2022 tax liability (rather than capitalizing an asset and depreciating it over time in future tax periods). Your business may deduct up to $1,050,000 in 2022 with purchase prices up to $2,620,000! Once the equipment purchased exceeds that number, the deduction reduces on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Call Republic Voice & Data at (813)984-0800 or email sales@askrepublic.com     

February 24, 2023

Are you being over charged for your Phone and Internet services?

We recently found two unlucky businesses that have!

Many companies pay for products and services that they no longer have.

Each of the two companies had bills ranging from $900-1200 per month.

Upon review, Republic was able to identify and provide substantial savings.  So much so the two clients were both able to afford a technology refresh.  A refresh providing them with new telecom, WIFI and video surveillance gear.  A big Win for our new clients!

If you still own a 10+ year old telephone system you too are more than likely a candidate for an equipment refresh, without spending one more penny.

There’s no charge to review your current internet/telephone bills, all you need to do is ask.

Are you ready for a refresh?

Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code gives your business an immediate deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying vehicles and equipment purchased and used during the tax year. This allows a decrease in 2022 tax liability (rather than capitalizing an asset and depreciating it over time in future tax periods). Your business may deduct up to $1,050,000 in 2022 with purchase prices up to $2,620,000! Once the equipment purchased exceeds that number, the deduction reduces on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Call Republic Voice & Data at (813)984-0800 or email sales@askrepublic.com     

January 24, 2023

SMS Texting

What are the Four reasons why SMS texting will replace emails in the next three years?

  • On average, people respond to texts 60 times quicker than they do emails
  • Texts have 6-8 times the response rates of emails.
  • 98% of texts are read completely, compared to 22% of emails.
  • 90% of all texts are opened within 3 minutes of receipt, emails are opened within 2.5 days.

Can your customers text you at your current number? 

It is easy to add texting to your current business extension. Please, contact us for more about texting.

Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code gives your business an immediate deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying vehicles and equipment purchased and used during the tax year. This allows a decrease in 2022 tax liability (rather than capitalizing an asset and depreciating it over time in future tax periods). Your business may deduct up to $1,050,000 in 2022 with purchase prices up to $2,620,000! Once the equipment purchased exceeds that number, the deduction reduces on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Call Republic Voice & Data at (813)984-0800 or email sales@askrepublic.com     

Dec 14, 2022

Section 179

Have You Considered the Section 179 Tax Incentive for Purchasing Telecom or Video Surveillance Equipment This Year?

Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code gives your business an immediate deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying vehicles and equipment purchased and used during the tax year. This allows a decrease in 2022 tax liability (rather than capitalizing an asset and depreciating it over time in future tax periods). Your business may deduct up to $1,050,000 in 2022 with purchase prices up to $2,620,000! Once the equipment purchased exceeds that number, the deduction reduces on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

Section 179 of the IRS Tax Code gives your business an immediate deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying vehicles and equipment purchased and used during the tax year. This allows a decrease in 2022 tax liability (rather than capitalizing an asset and depreciating it over time in future tax periods). Your business may deduct up to $1,050,000 in 2022 with purchase prices up to $2,620,000! Once the equipment purchased exceeds that number, the deduction reduces on a dollar-for-dollar basis.

It’s This Easy:

  1. Make sure your asset is eligible: Physical property that is purchased or leased, used more than 50% in your business, and not acquired from a related party.
  2. Start using the asset: You must start using the asset in your business before the year’s end to qualify for the deduction.
  3. Claim the deduction: You claim the Section 179 deduction on Part I of Form 4562 (the IRS Depreciation Form). You will have to include a description of the property, its cost, and the amount of Section 179 you’re claiming for that asset on Line 6. If you need more room, you can attach a list to Form 4562.

Please call Republic Voice & Data at (813)984-0800 or email sales@askrepublic.com     

October 31, 2022

Seven Reasons Businesses “Go VoIP”

“Go VoIP”

Superior customer service and support

Advanced calling features boost productivity

Mobility means important calls are never missed.

Easily expand with your business.

Easily accommodates multiple offices and remote workers

Low cost of entry, no hardware to buy or maintain

Reduce costs for telephone lines, hardware maintenance, and service calls

October 20, 2022

Panoramic IP Bullet Camera

Alibi Vigilant 4MP Dual-Lens

  • Amazing technology just released!
  • 160-degree field of view (Ultra-Wide Angle)
  • Color Video 24/7

This camera gives you the ability to capture color video all day and night. The chipset uses the smallest amount of ambient light to capture color scenes and the LEDs can be activated based on events or a timer to ensure that color video is captured even in the darkest nighttime conditions.Call Republic to get the latest surveillance technology

October 12, 2022

Hurricane Ian Relief Donation Center

Hurricane Ian Relief Donation Center

Hurricane Ian Relief Donation Center at Bull Bay Tackle

611 Schoolhouse Rd., Lakeland Fl 33813

Donations are accepted during store hours

Monday-Friday 10-6 pm and Saturday 10-3 pm

Republic Voice and Data doing their part!  Please do your part for our neighbors down south! 

 In the first week, we collected: 

  • 12+ Tarps, 
  • 25 Gallons Jugs of Water
  • 2 Cases of water. 

October 11, 2022

Work from Anywhere/Anytime Options

October 11, 2022

3 reasons business owners are deploying “Work from Anywhere/Anytime” options

  1. Flexibility for workers to support customer calls from their desks, their car, and their homes, ensuring that even the worker on the go can take that next customer call.
  2. Home workers are happier and more productive than ever with the option to work from home.
  3. When faced with an unforeseen storm, internet outage, or power outage: Employees can work from anywhere and at any time.

Email us at: sales@askrepublic.com or call us: at 813-769-5874 and let’s review how easy it is to activate Mobile tools for your business. 

7790 Professional Place, Tampa FL 33637 – 813-984-0800

AUGUST 9th, 2022

The Discovery Process- A Republic Tradition

August 9th, 2022

A religious-based center is being built in our area. The center will be comprised of a social hall, offices, sanctuary, and classrooms. Multiple functions will be held there. The center requires many technologies that our team will provide including low voltage cabling, VoIP phone solution, audio system, video surveillance, and access control systems.

Our Discovery process begins with:

  • Learning about the organization.
  • Identify building usage and specific details on activities occurring at the facility.
  • Learning the financial and operational parameters to provide solutions with expandability.
  • Engineering technologies to meet the needs of the business and their budget.
  • Spending the necessary time to demo each of the technologies to ensure the customer was part of the selection process.

The tradition of our Discovery creates a very necessary bond between us (our clients and Republic), it is where our partnership begins.