Attention Calling Card Providers – How to Offer Services for Smartphones

Last week we shared some tips on how to position your calling card business to take advantage of the explosive smartphone market.

Now that you know that IPsmarx has the latest technology and features that enable you to easily profit from this permanent trend, we thought you’d like to see how our solutions work.

At the core of our solutions is our Award-winning Calling Card Platform. You can view a video that describes how our solution works here: http://ipsmarx.com/cms/english/solutions/calling-card01.html.

Once you implement the calling card solution, you can easily add PINless and Breeze, our VoIP application for smartphones, like the iPhone and Android!

In 2009 the US mobile phone company, MetroPCS, began selling the BlackBerry Curve as a “Pre-Paid” smartphone for only $50 a month.

Today, it’s easy to enjoy the convenience of a pre-paid smartphone —

• No credit check
• No long-term contracts
• No contract required at all (cash and carry)!
• Cancel service any time
• Pay your service by credit card, debit card, even in cash

These pre-paid smartphones are perfect for the average calling card buyer!

And business is good because last year four new carriers, Virgin Mobile, T-Mobile, Cricket (Leap Wireless), and Boost Mobile (Sprint Nextel), entered the market with their own pre-paid smartphones too. AT&T and Verizon mobile won’t be far behind…

Calling card customers are buying smartphones because they’re a better value than traditional cell phones and more convenient than a landline: It’s phone, a camera, video camera, voice recorder, it has games, GPS, email, Facebook, and a computer they can carry in their pocket to stay connected with friends and family around the world, while on vacation, at home, or at work.

Find Out How to Profit From the Newest and Biggest Calling Card Trend Today

Click here to view a video on how our Calling Card Solution works!

Are YOU keeping up? What are you doing to stay in front of industry leading trends?

The answer is simple. Speak with an IPsmarx consultant and learn how to use Breeze, the VoIP solution for smartphones.

Click here to view a video about how our Calling Card Solution works!

If you want to continue to thrive as a Calling Card Provider, you need to understand how Breeze and the smartphone trend directly affect your business. With IPsmarx’s help you’ll master the ins and outs of this new phenomenon and put yourself on the cutting edge of the calling card industry.

Call 703-779-3594 and schedule a no-obligation phone consultation while you’re thinking about it.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Featured Add-on Module: Invoicing

With our add-on module, Invoicing, you can setup your system to generate invoices automatically on a certain date. Frequency of generated invoices is set by the admin; this feature can be set as a default for all your customers or you can change the frequency for specific customers. (For example you can generate an invoice for some customers biweekly or weekly instead of monthly).

Note: If you wish to generate your invoices manually of course you have that option in the system as well.

Once the invoices are generated you have the choice to either email your customers their invoice in PDF format, or print it and mail it to them.

Invoices are also available online on the customer portal section. Your customers can login to their portal to view their invoices.

Attention Calling Card Providers – How to Offer Services for Smartphones

Last week we shared some tips on how to position your calling card business to take advantage of the explosive smartphone market.

Now that you know that IPsmarx has the latest technology and features that enable you to easily profit from this permanent trend, we thought you’d like to see how our solutions work.

At the core of our solutions is our Award-winning Calling Card Platform. You can view a video that describes how our solution works here: http://ipsmarx.com/cms/english/solutions/calling-card01.html.

Once you implement the calling card solution, you can easily add PINless and Breeze, our VoIP application for smartphones, like the iPhone and Android!

In 2009 the US mobile phone company, MetroPCS, began selling the BlackBerry Curve as a “Pre-Paid” smartphone for only $50 a month.

Today, it’s easy to enjoy the convenience of a pre-paid smartphone —

• No credit check
• No long-term contracts
• No contract required at all (cash and carry)!
• Cancel service any time
• Pay your service by credit card, debit card, even in cash

These pre-paid smartphones are perfect for the average calling card buyer!

And business is good because last year four new carriers, Virgin Mobile, T-Mobile, Cricket (Leap Wireless), and Boost Mobile (Sprint Nextel), entered the market with their own pre-paid smartphones too. AT&T and Verizon mobile won’t be far behind…

Calling card customers are buying smartphones because they’re a better value than traditional cell phones and more convenient than a landline: It’s phone, a camera, video camera, voice recorder, it has games, GPS, email, Facebook, and a computer they can carry in their pocket to stay connected with friends and family around the world, while on vacation, at home, or at work.

Find Out How to Profit From the Newest and Biggest Calling Card Trend Today

Click here to view a video on how our Calling Card Solution works! 

The answer is simple. Speak with an IPsmarx consultant and learn how to use Breeze, the VoIP solution for smartphones.

Click here to view a video about how our Calling Card Solution works!

If you want to continue to thrive as a Calling Card Provider, you need to understand how Breeze and the smartphone trend directly affect your business. With IPsmarx’s help you’ll master the ins and outs of this new phenomenon and put yourself on the cutting edge of the calling card industry.

A New Way for PIN-less Providers to Capitalize on the Booming Smartphone Market

The New Pin-less Dialer for IPsmarx Mobile Softphone Breeze allows customers to use a pin-less account directly from their mobile dialer. Customers don’t need to dial the access number or pin, with the touch of a button, Breeze will link them to a pin-less service and clients just need to dial the destination they wish to reach!

This new module is also a great help when customers don’t want to use their data plan to make phone calls making it a great alternative for calls during business trips.

For more information on this great solution, please visit our website:

http://ipsmarx.com/cms/english/solutions/breeze.html

http://ipsmarx.com/cms/Solutions/ForCallingCardProviders/PinlessSolution.html

New PINless Dialer Now Available

In addition to Breeze, our VoIP dialer for smartphones, we now also offer a PINless dialer to enhance our PINless calling platform.

Here’s how it works.

Your PINless customers can download this application on their smartphone, which will automatically integrate with their existing contact list.

The next time they want to make a call, they will go to their app, select the contact they wish to call from their contact list and the call will connect.

They application is automatically dialing the local access phone number for the customer, making using your PINless service even more convenient!

Contact your Account Manager to find out how you can add this feature to your PINless platform!

IPsmarx Unveils New IP-PBX Enterprise Features

Our IP-PBX Solution has grown in order to offer a new array of features and tools for business telephony service providers around the world.  

The latest industry reports indicate the VoIP Market is rapidly shifting toward small & medium businesses. Business VoIP Service is growing rapidly because of its cost savings, efficiency and benefits. Frost & Sullivan reports Hosted Business IP Telephony is growing at over 28% annually. In fact, business VoIP services will make up almost one third of all VoIP service revenue by 2014, according to Infonetics Research.

The new Multitenant IP-PBX features a Receptionist Console, which allows the administrator to view call activity for a group of extensions. Using the console, users can view who is talking to who, transfer calls, send calls to voice mail, record calls, configure settings and call forwarding, view calls on hold and parked calls.

Our integrated fax solution supports fax to email and email to fax. Faxes can be sent in MS Word, PDF, or Excel to a fax number, directly from a PC.

With our new extension monitoring feature, employees can see who else is on the phone. For example, if a receptionist wants to transfer a call, they can easily see who is available to take the call. 

We also support call, screening, call recording, caller ID routing and many other features that would allow employees to work for more efficiently and take advantage of advanced VoIP technology features.

For more details on our new enterprise features please visit:

http://ipsmarx.com/cms/english/solutions/pbx.html

Stay tuned for next week blog with more information about our Call Center Features!

How to Expand with IPsmarx Solutions

Nothing makes an Account Manager happier than when a customer comes back after having purchased a start-up solution and asks for advice on expansion. This is a sign up that the business is doing well and growing, and Account Managers at IPsmarx have been fortunate to see many such returning customers.

These are some of the suggestions we have offered them for taking their thriving business in a new direction and reaching a different consumer market:

 One great way to popularize your business is to encourage referrals. With the Bonus Points and Promotions Bundle added to your IPsmarx Calling Card, PINless or Residential Solution  your customers can receive bonus points for referring friends who sign up with you, and redeem those points for free minutes. Advertise your referral program on your website and you’ll be sure to get many new customers referred to you by your existing ones.

 Similarly, resellers can sell your services to their own client base at your rates, or at their own. You could vastly expand the clients using your services by adding reseller or agents to your business model and merely paying them a small commission to bring them in. Your resellers can even recharge customer accounts through the phone or web, which is sure to encourage returning customers for the both of you.

 If you started with a Residential Class 5 Solution, you can get your very own branded application on the Apple App Store and Android Market with the addition of Breeze to your service offerings. You can give your existing Residential customers the convenience and cost savings of your great packages on their smart phones, and reel in new clients by offering VoIP calling on their IPhones and Androids.

 You could also offer the same IP Telephony services you currently give your residential customers to businesses. You already know about setting up great calling packages, auto provisioning phones, and the mobility your customers receives through VoIP. Business clients have a great need for such services, and the other features the IPsmarx IP-PBX Module comes with, such as voicemail to email, follow me, and the online receptionist console. You can offer them the portability, cost-savings and innovative features of IP-PBX for their SMB. You can start with just 100 extensions added to your system and distribute amongst the companies you service as needed.

Adding additional VoIP business models and features to your existing switch is a great way to make your business far-reaching, robust and on-trend. As always, you’ll receive the guidance and support of the IPsmarx Business Readiness Team as you branch out.

Have you positioned your calling card business to take advantage of the explosive smartphone market?

Your customers are quickly adopting smartphones. IPsmarx has the latest technology and features that enable you to easily profit from this permanent trend.

Not having a service  to sell your smartphone-carrying customers can be a big mistake. And if you don’t think your calling card customers are buying smartphones, think again…

In 2009 the US mobile phone company, MetroPCS, began selling the BlackBerry Curve as a “Pre-Paid” smartphone for only $50 a month.

Today, it’s easy to enjoy the convenience of a pre-paid smartphone —

• No credit check
• No long-term contracts
• No contract required at all (cash and carry)!
• Cancel service any time
• Pay your service by credit card, debit card, even in cash

These pre-paid smartphones are perfect for the average calling card buyer!

And business is good because last year four new carriers, Virgin Mobile, T-Mobile, Cricket (Leap Wireless), and Boost Mobile (Sprint Nextel), entered the market with their own pre-paid smartphones too. AT&T and Verizon mobile won’t be far behind…

Calling card customers are buying smartphones because they’re a better value than traditional cell phones and more convenient than a landline: It’s phone, a camera, video camera, voice recorder, it has games, GPS, email, Facebook, and a computer they can carry in their pocket to stay connected with friends and family around the world, while on vacation, at home, or at work.

Find Out How to Profit From the Newest and Biggest Calling Card Trend Today

Within two years, your calling card business could be thriving from this new calling trend or falling behind your competitors if you don’t take advantage of it today.

Is this a drastic prediction? Perhaps.

But take a look at this timeline …

• The earliest calling card used a magnetic stripe and was manufactured in Italy in 1976.
• It took 24 years for today’s virtual and PINless phone cards to come to market.
• VoIP commercially started in 1995  and
• Vonage was founded in 2001, 6 years after the InternetPhone and it took them five years to reach 1.8 million subscribers.
• However in 2003 Skype was founded and in its first 3 years reached over half a billion downloads of its software and handled over 7.6 billion minutes per quarter.
• Then in 2007 magicJack started business and in 12 short months sold over 2 million devices!

As you can see, the rate of adoption for new calling technologies gets faster and faster and adding new customers becomes easier and easier. The reason is simple: these technologies are much easier to use and have become a vital part of our lives.

If you’re not up to speed and ahead of the curve, you’re falling behind.

Are YOU keeping up? What are you doing to stay in front of industry leading trends?

Now, take a look at this related timeline…

• The first smartphone was sold 1993. It was rudimentary by today’s standards.
• In 2002 RIM released the first BlackBerry, which is the first smartphone optimized for wireless email. It took them 6 years to reach 32 million subscribers.

Even with smartphones, the rate of adoption has gotten faster and the ability to quickly add new customers easier:

• The iPhone launched many years after BlackBerry in 2007, BUT it took them only two years to sell 41,152,350 units.
• Then Google’s Android came along in 2008 and in 24 lightening-speed months it surpassed Nokia, Apple and BlackBerry for global smartphone market share!
• In 2010 smartphone sales increased 72.1 percent from the previous year, while traditional mobile phones sales increased only 31.8 percent.

So what can you do to profit from this trend and make sure you don’t get left behind?

The answer is simple. Speak with an IPsmarx consultant and learn how to use Breeze, the VoIP solution for smartphones. Call 703-779-3594 and set up a no-cost, no-obligation, and no-risk phone consultation now.

Here’s a sample of questions to ask your IPsmarx consultant:

• How to position and grow your calling card business in the smartphone marketplace.
• The steps you can take to increase your revenue by offering Breeze and related smartphone calling services to your clients.
• What are the top opportunities for making money with Breeze.
• How to combine Breeze and the rapidly expanding smartphone market to acquire new end users and distributors.
• What are the different steps needed to sell Breeze online and through retail distributors.
• Why adding Breeze to your service today means more profits over the next 2 to 3 years.
• What to say when agents, distributors, and end users ask if you have an app that saves money on calls made from smartphones at home and internationally?
• Why your reputation as a serious calling card provider could hinge on how quickly you add the Breeze smartphone calling card app to your offerings (slow movers, beware!)
• Easy questions you can ask agents and distributors to convince them to sell Breeze for you.
• How to use Breeze to – in just a few days – generate a rush of new sales that could keep your business busy for the next year.

And that’s just scratching the surface!

If you want to continue to thrive as a Calling Card Provider, you need to understand how Breeze and the smartphone trend directly affect your business. With IPsmarx’s help you’ll master the ins and outs of this new phenomenon and put yourself on the cutting edge of the calling card industry.

Call 703-779-3594 and schedule a no-obligation phone consultation while you’re thinking about it.

It’s Finally Here — A Custom Branded VoIP Smartphone Application That Works with Your Existing IP-PBX

 Sure, the idea of selling a VoIP application for smart phones like the iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile devices sounds great, but when you support many brands of IP-PBX and softswitches, you need something that will easily work with your existing equipment. Your customers have their own preference too, so why not offer a solution for their iPhone, iPad, Android, or Windows Mobile devices and give them the freedom to choose as well?

With Breeze by IPsmarx you can:

• Offer your own branded VoIP application that can be used on smart phones to make and receive calls using Wi-Fi or 3G
• End users enjoy the convenience of using their cell phone’s existing contact list and advanced features like Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, Music on Hold, and Call Transfer, while making cost saving calls using the internet.
• Combined with the IPsmarx Multi-Tenant IP-PBX System, or the IP-PBX solution of your choice, Breeze is a superior mobile VoIP application for enterprises as it can be used as an extension in the PBX system.
• Rapidly improve margins with low overhead costs 

Watch this video to find out more about Breeze – your key to breaking in to the VoIP Smart Phone market!

http://www.ipsmarx.com/videos/breeze/pbx.html

Contact IPsmarx for more information:

www.ipsmarx.com * (703) 871-5274 * (416) 665-6999 * sales@ipsmarx.com

My Life With Breeze: A User’s Experience

I have been an avid Smartphone user for over 5 years. I have been a proud and addicted owner of an iPhone for 3, and before that I was a proud Canadian sporting a Blackberry (The blackberry was invented by a Canadian).  When I switched from a Blackberry to an iPhone I also switched Mobile providers. Even though I was switching because I was an dedicated Apple customer I was still hoping to get a deal and save some money.  I needed a Smartphone but I didn’t need the huge costs of using it every month.

Being a creative professional; I am always out on the go.  I go to art galleries, seminars, meetings, have to call clients all over and I even travel. You know us creative types, we love California.

But one thing I don’t love is travelling and having to use my phone. I actually dread it.  The roaming charges on top of the long distance charges really do add up. If you use your phone to make calls while abroad (local or long distance) or if you use your phone in your city of residence to make long distance calls, your next billing cycle on your phone bill will hurt your savings account.  I don’t like having to think about the cost of calling my best friend who lives three major cities away when I really need her advice.

I wanted to talk to my family, my friends, my clients. I just wanted to make the calls and be worry free of the costs.

I downloaded the Breeze application developed by IPsmarx and I now have a VoIP outlet on my phone.

Using the Breeze Application I can make calls via my Wi-Fi connection. This is perfect for travelling because I don’t have to launch my network. I go into my settings on my phone and disable the data roaming. This is great, not only will I not be charged for long distance but I will not be charged for data roaming. 

If I am in my home country, Canada I can use Breeze with my 3G network and not have to worry about roaming charges. I can use my existing data plan or even use Wi-Fi as well.

Using Breeze turns Smartphone’s into VoIP phones.  Breeze supports not only the iPhone but also the Android. And soon the blackberry!

Although not everyone has a Smartphone, the market is opening.  Offering VoIP as a mobile option builds new market opportunities for a VoIP service Provider.

Breeze has many different features. Take a look at our Breeze solution page on the IPsmarx.com website. You can pick and choose which features you want to promote to target and attract customers.