Nextiva (www.nextiva.com), an industry leading provider of cloud-based business phone service, announced today that it has been named a Top 100 Champion in the 2014 Small Business Influencer Awards, produced by Small Business Trends, a leading online industry magazine.

A panel of small business experts selected Champions based on several factors. These factors included how the nominee company was able to revolutionize processes for other small businesses, how it provided products or services to address challenges faced by small business customers and how the nominee was able to impact the growth of other small businesses.

Nextiva won this award thanks to its unique suite of products, each which utilizes cloud-based communication technologies to help small businesses improve productivity, reduce complexity, enable collaboration and enhance the customer experience.

"Influencers are those who play crucial roles in the small business ecosystem, but who often are in the background,” said Anita Campbell, CEO of Small Business Trends and a co-founder of the Small Business Influencer Awards. “The Top 100 Champions have distinguished themselves in some way. We’re delighted to see the wide range of Champions this year – including journalists, corporate leaders who impact small businesses by influencing the offerings within their companies, vendors large and small that support small businesses, and entrepreneurs who have a strong voice among their small business peers.“

“We are honored to be recognized as one of the 2014 Small Business Influencer Top 100 Champions,” says Yaniv Masjedi, Nextiva’s Vice President of Marketing. “We are dedicated to providing the tools, resources and support small businesses need to run efficiently and profitably.”

For more information about the Nextiva Partner Program and its complete unified communication solutions, please visit www.nextiva.com.