Bill “PhoneBill” McClain

You can call Gates, Joel, Murray, or Clinton…but only this Bill has the answer 💪 UCaaS Provider - VoIP- ☎️

Pioneering the intersection of AI and business communications as a 3X founder. 

Currently revolutionizing voice technology through UponAI while leading innovative UCaaS and CCaaS solutions at StratusDial, backed by extensive experience at Networking Solutions.

At StratusDial, I've transformed business communications by:
• Implementing cost-saving solutions that reduce operating expenses by up to $9,000
• Developing seamless Office365 integrations and advanced VoIP systems
• Building a 24/7 technical support infrastructure that maintains 99.9% uptime
• Creating custom UCaaS/CCaaS solutions for diverse enterprise needs

Through UponAI, I'm pushing the boundaries of:
• AI-powered voice recognition and natural language processing
• Intelligent call routing and automated customer service solutions
• Machine learning algorithms for enhanced communication efficiency
• Voice-enabled business intelligence and analytics

My entrepreneurial journey spans:
🔹 Advanced Telecommunications
🔹 Enterprise Network Architecture
🔹 Cloud Communications
🔹 AI/ML Implementation
🔹 Business Process Automation

Proud to be recognized by industry leaders, including Eric Hernaez, Founder & President of SkySwitch, for maintaining exceptional service standards and driving continuous innovation in business communications.

Specialties:
#AIVoice #UCaaS #CCaaS #CloudCommunications #NetworkingSolutions #VoIP #BusinessIntelligence #EnterpriseNetworking #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation

Looking to connect with:
• Business leaders seeking communication solutions
• Technology innovators in AI and voice tech
• Enterprise clients exploring digital transformation
• Fellow entrepreneurs in the tech space

Let's discuss how AI-powered voice solutions can transform your business communications. Open to partnerships, collaborations, and innovative ventures.


Founder -

Networking Solutions 29 years
StratusDial 13 years
UponAi 2 years

3X Founder - 0X Exits

Founder President & CEO

Does the idea of switching phone providers for your business sound like a permanent migraine? Here’s what’s worse:

Turning your customers away because you’re unable to provide a good phone customer experience because of lousy support from your business phone provider.

When you entrust ☎️PhoneBill (& the team at StratusDial) with your company’s new voice, here’s what you get:

✔️ Pre-installation audit to locate savings (sometimes $9000!) & lower your operating costs
✔️ Take care of allllllllll the prep, installation, routing, testing… everything done-for-you
✔️ Hold your hand through set-up & advise you on phone experience best practices
✔️ Latest phone features for maximum efficiency (hello, Office365 integration!)
✔️ Custom set-up the big providers won’t do (e.g. overhead paging system)
✔️ 60-day and 90-day check-ins to make sure you love your new system
✔️ Eager-to-help technical support, 24/7

As a smaller (but mightier!) provider, we can deliver the type of boutique service that the large competitors wish they could deliver. 😉

Ready to have your business phone system work for you (not against you) in bringing more clients to your business?

Message ☎️PhoneBill on LinkedIn. I’ll sort you out.

Bill (PhoneBill) McClain

Sarah Clay

Hello, I'm Sarah Clay

Apparently, my about section is ‘the best we’ve ever seen’!  

🟣 ARE YOU HEAD OF MARKETING, HEAD OF SALES OR CEO?
Let's make your marketing efforts go much further using your most valuable asset.
I'll help you elevate your personal profiles to elevate the status and visibility of your company. 
I  teach and empower your teams to use LinkedIn to increase the brand awareness of the company. It’s called ‘Employee advocacy on LinkedIn’. 

We also manage company pages with our full content creation service. 

🟣 ARE YOU RUNNING A CONFERENCE OR INTERNAL EVENT?
Hire me as your speaker to:    
Empower and inspire your teams to use LinkedIn to spread your company message
Help your attendees understand how they can use LinkedIn more effectively

🟣 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR YOUR NEXT BIG ROLE?
We work together to reposition you to give you the best chance of getting the best job and the best pay.

🟧🟪 Are you using my 5 step TRUST model to maximise your company message?

Find your Tribe
Build your Reputation
Understand your audience
Don’t Sell, Shake hands
Tell people how you solve their problems

If posts on personal profiles get up to 561% more engagement than on a company page - wouldn't you like to get your teams out and about on LinkedIn?

DM me, let's chat about how I can teach your team how.

🧑🏻‍🦰 ABOUT ME
I trained as a lawyer - amazing life and business skills
I Produced TV and music videos - organising, negotiating, people management
I ran marketing and PR departments then set up my own social media agency which led me to training people how to use LinkedIn

❓ WHY WORK WITH ME?
🔶 Years of Marketing, PR, social media and being a business owner means I bring many other skills to help you truly master LinkedIn: 
design
branding
marketing
communication
content creation
employee advocacy programme manager

🔶 I'm an experienced conference speaker and a regular guest on podcasts, live and on line events -delivering learning in an exciting way for you and your team.

🗣 WHAT DO MY CLIENTS SAY? 
‘Sarah worked closely with our large team on boosting our reach. Within 2 weeks my engagement and impressions stats increased by 245%'

‘Sarah was able to explain the technical elements really simply to me and then worked with me to devise a plan tailored to my needs.’

📈 ARE YOU READY TO START?
🗣 Let's chat: http://bit.ly/4r8W9lb
✍🏼DM me here
📧 sarah@sarahclaysocial.com

Social Selling
LinkedIn trainer
Keynote Speaker
Employee advocacy
Business Development
LinkedIn for corporates
C-Suite personal branding
Good at making lists look pretty

LinkedIn trainer, LinkedIn instructor

Training employees and entrepreneurs how to leverage LinkedIn for Brand awareness, personal branding, content creation and lead generation on LinkedIn.
#LinkedInSimplified
#LinkedInTraining
#LinkedInTips

I’m flying 6,000 miles to Thailand to talk about TRUST to a room full of marketing companies. I'll be talking at The Indie Summit, about why trust matters and its relevance to LinkedIn.

I’m excited to meet independent agency owners and leaders who see LinkedIn as a long term relationship builder, not just another content channel.

I’ll be sharing what’s working right now to build visibility and trust, and where to focus your effort now, especially with LinkedIn’s latest algorithm shift (360Brew) changing what gets seen - and why.

A session built for busy agency leaders: useful, specific, actionable.

Looking forward to hearing from Kimberly Afonso and Viviana Žorž, M.Sc. speaking just before me, and Kathryn Williams, who is delivering the keynote and our Master of Ceremonies, and also from Julian Boulding owner of thenetworkone who organises the conference.

Will I see you there?

Sarah 🟧 🟪

Empowering companies world-wide to increase their brand visibility. Transforming your teams into brand ambassadors 🟪 Author ‘Employee Advocacy on LinkedIn’ 🟧 Keynote speaker 🟪 Cyclist 🚴‍♀️ Freeman - Marketors

I'm off cycling in Southern Spain next week, I am so looking forward to a week with Islington Cycle Club, cycling and getting some well-needed Vitamin D on my skin. 🚴🏻‍♀️

As I'm sure you can understand, I will NOT be on my phone or my computer during the day so although I will have some posts scheduled (so you can still learn stuff while I'm having fun), please forgive me if I don't respond to your comments.

Sarah 💜

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Do you ever say something nice at a networking event?
A quick, genuine compliment. Nothing big. Just human.

“Loved what you said there.”
“Love your coat/bag/shoes"
“You explained that so well.”

So why do we go quiet on LinkedIn?

If you catch yourself thinking something nice while you’re scrolling, type it. Send it. Done.

It makes them feel good.
It makes you feel good.
It takes about 10 seconds.
And even if you never speak again, it still lands.

Next time you’re scrolling, try a note like:

“I loved your post today. Really clear.”
“Your banner is brilliant. It says exactly what you do.”
“Your About section is so well written. That line about [X] really landed.”

Send it, then carry on scrolling.

And why this photo?  Because Ceylan Boyce, Marie Fraser and I connected at this event as we loved each others' outfits! 

Sarah 💜

Are LinkedIn polls dead?...here are some insights that might surprise you...

On a recent poll I ran it had:

🔶 285 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬
🔶 3,978 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝
🔶 152 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

That’s 7.2% 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 1 𝐢𝐧 14).
And the comments tell the real story, people didn’t just click, they had something to say.

Polls aren’t dead. People will vote… but only when the question is worth answering.

If you want people to vote, the question needs to be:

~ relateable
~ specific enough to have an opinion
~ easy to answer
~ comfortable to answer

The real skill is asking something your audience wants to weigh in on.

Surprised at these results? Let me know in the comments.

Sarah 🟪 🟧

Have you ever wanted to message someone on LinkedIn… and then realised you can’t, because you’re not connected? 

You could send them a connection request but there is another way. 

Think what you would do in real life.

In real life, you’d see if someone could introduce you. 

On LinkedIn, we start to overthink it.

But a warm introduction is one of the easiest ways to cut through the noise, especially when someone gets loads of connection requests.

The great thing is that LinkedIn TELLS you who your mutual connections are. How easy can this be? Just send one of them a message asking for an introduction. 

That’s it. Low effort for them. High trust for you.

Do you ever ask for warm intros, or do you default to sending a cold connection request?

Sarah 🟪 🟧

I am honoured to have been chosen to speak at ADFEST (Official) 2026. Nothing to do with the fact that it's in Thailand of course!

View company: Sarah Clay Social LinkedIn Marketing

Thailand keeps popping up in my diary this year! 🇹🇭

After sharing that I’ll be speaking at The Indie Summit, I’m very excited to say I’ll also be taking the stage at 𝐀𝐃𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐨𝐧 21 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡.

More details on what I’ll be covering soon, but it’ll be practical, straight-talking, and designed for creative people who know that they SHOULD be using LinkedIn but don't know where to start.

If you’re heading to ADFEST, let me know in the comments. I’d love to say hello.

Sarah 🟧 🟪

My day started well - and just got even better!

Thank you Karen Bright for your video review of my book 'Employee Advocacy on LinkedIn'. I am honoured that you took the time to create this and that you chose MY book for your 'book of the month'! 

I love that you won the book too in a draw as part of UpLift Live as organised by John Espirian, Gus Bhandal and Jeremy Freeman. 

You really have made my day, thank you 💜

Freelance copywriter helping businesses tell their stories with clear, compelling content | Tech and healthcare | Universities and higher education | Property | LinkedIn marketer and trainer

Do you manage a company page? Or create content for one?

Are you finding it harder to get visibility on your posts?

Organic reach for company pages has become increasingly challenging... even when you’re sharing valuable, well-crafted content.

So what can you actually do about it?

My recommended read for March tackles this head-on.

📚 Employee Advocacy on LinkedIn (by Sarah Clay) has been on my reading list for a while. And then, by pure chance, I won a copy in UpLift Live’s competition a few weeks ago (note: I'd have shared the same review regardless of whether it was gifted).

If you’re looking for practical ways to extend your reach beyond the company page and empower your people to amplify your message authentically, Sarah's book is worth a read.

Have you explored employee advocacy yet? I’d love to hear what’s working for you.

More updates on 360Brew and how it can help you get better visibility on LinkedIn by doing it RIGHT. Here, we're looking at how employees and teams should use LinkedIn. 

Don't forget, though, as always, your audience is the most important reason you're here. 

360Brew is rewarding meaning + relevance + expertise.

For employee advocacy, that means three shifts:

🔶 Relevance beats reach
Small, right audience > big, random audience.

🔶 Depth beats noise
Visibility is judged by deep, intentional engagement, not vanity metrics.

🔶 Participation beats performance
Employee advocacy is not just posting. It’s showing up, commenting, and building trust in the right places.

If your programme is built around “get more people posting”, now might be time to rebuild it around “build trust with the right audience."

=>> This slide is from my FREE webinar, the next one is on Tuesday, 31 March. 
Want the link to register? Message me.

Sarah 🟧 🟪

Hey folks, I'm in holiday mode (2 more sleeps!), so I just HAD to share this wee nugget with you. 

It's a 'review' of my book! 

Well, sort of....  I asked my AI to help me create some content from my book to re-purpose here on LinkedIn to position me as a speaker at corporate events. 

I really want to help you lot understand what employee advocacy is and how you can be using it for your company.

I pasted in the first chapter of my book to my AI bot and this is what 'it' said! 

So there you go folks - perhaps you should head over to Amazon and buy it - I'd hate you missing out on all my gold! 🤣

Sarah 💜

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