February 2021 Member of the Month - Stephanie Turzanski, Owner, VinVu
/Five Answers From a CCPA Member - Stephanie Turzanski, Owner, VinVu
What is your guilty pleasure TV show? Below Deck
What is your favorite place you have traveled? Miami
What was your first job? Marketing at Comcast
What is something you’ve always wanted to do but haven’t done yet? Travel to Australia
What is your best networking tip? Be yourself and don’t care what others think
More about Stephanie and VinVu
Prior to opening VinVu, I owned an outsourced marketing firm called In House Marketing, which has recently become inactive. While in that role I met my now business partner who spent 18 years in the telecom industry and owned another firm where I was hired to help with marketing and business development.
During my hire I did my due diligence to understand how telecom worked. I came to the conclusion that the telecom industry was unethical and did not help clients in a way it should. I was so shocked that my comments to leadership was “This industry is incredibly unethical. The way in which back-ended money flows is insane. This is too shady. You do nothing to help your clients and have your own self-interest as priority. How does this industry allow this kind of work to happen?” Needless to say after my comment leadership thought my “sass” was too much and asked me not to come back and said that I “didn’t get it.”
That experience got me to thinking. Since this is an unregulated industry, what if we made it as if we were regulated? What if we told our clients what we made, how the money flows, and gave them the tools given to agents to help them procure the services needed to get their business to work and grow? What if we give back to our clients financially and help fuel growth?
Thinking about this made me call my now business partner. I asked him if there was a way for us to create a company that could be ethical and transparent with clients. He said there is, but it has never been done before in our industry but would love to be a part of something that did do what I was thinking.
That’s when VinVu was created. Our overall objectives are simple. We want to help clients lower their telecom spend by finding them better rates and services, driving unexpected additional savings, showing clients how to leverage the master community, and giving them the tools and technology to maintain processes while enhancing their business. Our overall objectives are simple. We want to help clients lower their telecom spend by finding them better rates and services, driving unexpected additional savings, showing clients how to leverage the master community, and giving them the tools and technology to maintain processes while enhancing their business.
We traveled the country for a year asking our peers if anyone was doing our model. So far, we are the only ones with our transparency. It’s exciting to know that out of over 3,000 agents we are the only ones doing this model, yet it saddens me to know that we are the only ones being honest which is not fair to businesses who need agents to help them make the right telecom decision.
To this day I’m thrilled we created this company and are helping businesses change how to procure telecom while protecting and educating them at the same time.
Stephanie Turzanski, Owner, VinVu
3887 Alberta Place, Philadelphia PA 19154
215-510-6587
swt@vinvu.net
VinVu.net