Increase Your Profit Margin by 100% with our New Hotline Solution!

Working with hundreds of VoIP entrepreneurs around the world we’ve found that the most successful calling providers are INNOVATIVE. Below are some compelling reasons innovation should be part of your business strategy.

Successful VoIP providers have innovative ideas, or… innovative ways to use old ideas that make their customers’ lives easier. This innovation enables their businesses to be more successful, plus they’re able to —

• Carve out and dominate a niche in their market (imagine dealing with little to no competition),
• Generate more calling minutes and revenue from an untapped market (wouldn’t it be nice to pocket more money with less stress?),
• Enjoy a higher premium per minute rate (isn’t it better to charge more for value than fighting to offer the lowest price?)

Our new Hotline Solution was designed to help VoIP providers find a new way to differentiate themselves from the competition and increase their profit margins.

What is a VoIP hotline service?

A hotline service allows end users to obtain specialized information by speaking directly with a professional. End users are able to get instant answers and receive expert advice at a low cost and service providers have higher profit margins by taking advantage of VoIP calling rates.  End users can pay by credit card over the phone or can buy prepaid cards.

The IPsmarx SIP-Based Hotline Solution is available in three modules: Prepaid Hotline Module, PINless Hotline Module with E-Store, and Bill to Credit Card or Postpaid Module.

Hotline Services that you could offer:

• Expert Advice (legal, tax preparation, insurance, financial)
• Dating Services
• Psychic or Tarot Card Reading Services
• Medical/Health Hotlines
• Psychiatric Services
• Crisis Hotlines
• Translation Services
• Business Hotlines (reporting fraud and unethical behavior)
• Technical Support Hotlines
• Embassy & Government Hotlines

With the IPsmarx SIP-Based Hotline Solution, you can offer a unique service to your customer base simply by promoting it through your existing website or resellers. The IPsmarx Hotline Solution offers a low risk growth opportunity for your telecom business to reach a new market and be more competitive.

How can the IPsmarx Hotline Business Model increase your revenues?

• Your customers will be willing to pay a higher price to obtain instantaneous, specialized information.
• You can charge end users per minute or per call, while keeping your costs low with VoIP calling rates.
• Since you can charge customers a higher price and keep your operating costs low, you will experience higher profit margins.
• Because you have the advantage of low VoIP rates, you can differentiate yourself in the market by passing the savings along to end users and offering more competitive rates.

To learn more about how to grow your business and increase profits with the IPsmarx Hotline Solution, contact us at sales@ipsmarx.com.

We look forward to hearing from you and helping your business grow!

VoIP Professionals Starting to Gear up for This Year’s Holiday Traffic

The end of summer in the Washington DC area is a notoriously slow time for business. Kids are getting ready to go back to school and parents are taking any opportunity for some warm weather vacation time. Traffic dies down and community pools fill up, but for professionals in the VoIP industry, there is no summer “break.”

This is the time of year when service providers are gearing up to support their peak holiday traffic, beginning in October and going all the way through January. This is the time to stress test softswitches, add new carriers, and make sure all of the tools are in place to support a holiday marketing initiative. We’re working with our existing clients to implement redundancy and capacity upgrades to ensure that their system will support the accelerated traffic volume that the holidays bring. For more information about redundancy, you can view a video here: http://www.ipsmarx.com/videos/redundancy.html.

For start ups, this is a very exciting time, as it may be their first opportunity to capitalize on the holiday voice traffic. We’re working with start-ups to make sure they launch their business in time to take advantage of the holiday traffic and offering marketing features, such as email marketing, bonus point management, and E-store promotions.

If you’re thinking of starting a VoIP business, this is the perfect time of year to get started. You can view a complete list of our business ideas here: http://ipsmarx.com/Solutions/ForEntrepreneurs/BusinessIdeas.html.

Annual Growth of over 14% Suggests that Now is the Time to Start Your VoIP Business

We’re wrapping up our 10 Year Anniversary Celebration and preparing to get our clients ready for the highest VoIP traffic volumes of the year this fall and winter.

With many holidays approaching, if you’ve been thinking about starting your own Calling Card or VoIP business, now is the time!

Start a PINless Calling Card or VoIP Business Backed by IPsmarx

We’ve supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in  over 66 countries as they’ve entered the VoIP and Calling Card Industry and have many success stories. Find out which of our solutions is right for your business idea. Some options include:

• Custom Brand your own prepaid international calling cards or PINless service.
• Offer VoIP services in Africa, while hosting your hardware in the US or Europe.
• Differentiate yourself from other service providers by offering PINless recharge for end users and IVR recharge for agents.
• Offer full-featured residential VoIP service.
• Sell your own custom branded VoIP dialer for the iPhone and Android smartphones.
• Offer IP-PBX services to your business clients.

To learn more about all of the business models supported by IPsmarx’ solutions, click here.

View some of our client testimonials here: http://www.ipsmarx.com/Company/ClientTestimonials.aspx. 

Here’s what Streamline Communications had to say about IPsmarx:

“We thought we would never be able to do this on our own. Once we began dealing with IPsmarx, you guys walked us through everything. We were amazed that we were actually able to run the business ourselves. I would recommend it to everybody. One of the reasons we went with IPsmarx is that it was scalable and there are options to grow your business. It’s better than we ever expected.

–Josh Wilson, Streamline Communications, North Carolina

Contact us for more information about how to get started with our award-winning solutions!

How to Capitalize on Peak Holiday Traffic

Ramadan is coming up in the month of August and it is known to be one of the busiest calling times of the year, with families and friends trying to communicate with each other overseas. Long distance calling overseas results in high telephone bills, unless you are using VoIP.

This Ramadan season, offer your customers affordable rates to the Middle East and Africa by setting up a Calling Card Platform. Take advantage of the high demand for low-cost long distance calling options during this time. Through the IPsmarx Callback Module you can bypass legislation, making it possible to offer VoIP calling to the Middle East and Africa.

By setting up an IPsmarx Calling Card Platform, you can also take advantage of our great Termination Rates to the Middle East and Africa. Your Calling Card Business can be up and running in as little as 10 days, just in time for Ramadan.

Contact us at sales@ipsmarx.com to learn how to set up your Calling Card Business.

Calling Card: A Great Business for Immigrant Entrepreneurs

An article titled “Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Creating More Jobs for Americans” published by The Immigrant Magazine states that “many Americans owe their jobs to immigrant entrepreneurs”.

The Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians documents that “60 to 70 percent of the businesses in many shopping districts are owned by newcomers”.

The article further states that “immigrants are not only more likely to start businesses, but their companies often spark remarkable job creation”.

The article provides success stories of immigrant entrepreneurs with small-scale businesses to large corporations. It is truly inspirational to hear such success stories and encouraging for immigrants who are thinking of starting a new business.

Starting a calling card business with the help of IPsmarx is an excellent way to own a business. Most of our clients are immigrants who have little to no technical knowledge of how the VoIP industry works. Many of our clients come to us with a great idea and we help them to make it a reality.

So if you have a great idea for a VoIP business, contact us and we will guide you through the process of setting it up.

Contact us:sales@ipsmarx.com

To read more about Immigrant Entrepreneurs: http://www.immigrantmagazine.com/2011/05/immigrant-entrepreneurs-creating-more-jobs-for-americans/

VoIP Start-Up Summer Reading List

Since we deal with VoIP and Calling Card companies that are in start up phase, we often get asked about websites, articles and publications that are useful to get more insight in to the VoIP industry.

Here are some reading materials that I would recommend for any VoIP Start Up.

Our How to Start a Calling Card Business Guide

How to Capitalize on the Latest Trend in PINless Calling

How to Leverage Least Cost Routing

IPsmarx Celebrates 10 Years in the VoIP Industry – a Look Back at the Evolution of the VoIP Industry

For more information, contact us at info@ipsmarx.com.

Updates from our Wholesale Department

Here are some exciting updates from the IPsmarx Wholesale Carrier Department.

We now have an online payment option available for our wholesale termination services in addition to bank wire transfers. You can enjoy the ease of refilling your account balance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by using your credit card.

IPsmarx Wholesale Carrier Services offers two levels of VOIP Termination Service; Wholesale & Gold.  Our Wholesale Service consists of Quality Routing with our most competitive rates.  Our Gold Service is Highest Retail Quality Termination with premium pricing.  We also provide Callback termination and CLI routes if this is a requirement for you.

We have numerous direct routes into Latin & Central America and also Africa.  In addition, we have very competitive rates with good quality routes through direct interconnects with our International Providers to the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

Please click here www.ipsmarx.com/cms/download/wholesalerates.csv  to review our Wholesale rates.  We have recently updated our rates for all of Africa on our Wholesale & Gold Service.  Included are new direct routes and good quality destinations.  Every day we are updating our routes to fulfill our clients’ needs.

We can set up a free test account for you and you can try the service beforehand.  Just let us know and we will send you our VOIP Interconnect Form to start the process. 

Thank you for your interest in our services & I look forward to your response.

FREE Webinar: How to Start a Calling Card Business

This free webinar from IPsmarx Technology Inc. is a complete guide on the easy steps to take to start your very own calling card business.

Are you ready to take the steps and start your own business as a calling card provider? The calling card market is soaring and now is the time to dive in.

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for your free no obligation quote and get started in little as 10 business days.

Create your own branded iPhone app to reach 80,000,000 iphone users

VoIP Service Providers know that smartphones are becoming more advanced, data speeds are getting faster and WiFi hotspots are now even more accessible. But do you know that the revenue for Mobile VoIP is estimated to be about $200 billion from NEW ventures?  That is quite the opportunity for service providers to add Mobile VOIP to their current offerings and profit from this growing technology.  Consumers will want the App for inexpensive international calling right from the smart phones, while corporate customers have a great demand for it to be able to be connected to their office extension wherever they take their IPhone or Android device! Every Business VoIP provider is looking for technology to increase employee efficiency, and IPsmarx allows them to create their own branded App to do so! Users will be able to use your app to make and receive calls through VoIP, rather than their cell phone minutes. For more information on our Mobile VoIP Solution please contact us.

What is Cloud Based VoIP Service?

These days you hear the term “cloud based service” quite often but what does it actually mean and how does it impact a VoIP provider?

The Wikipedia definition of cloud based computing is as follows:

Cloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a computer network, such as applications, databases, file services, email, etc. In the traditional model of computing, both data and software are fully contained on the user’s computer; in cloud computing, the user’s computer may contain almost no software or data (perhaps a minimal operating system and web browser only), serving as little more than a display terminal for processes occurring on a network of computers far away. A common shorthand for a provided cloud computing service (or even an aggregation of all existing cloud services) is “The Cloud”.

The most common analogy to explain cloud computing is that of public utilities such as electricity, gas, and water. Just as centralized and standardized utilities free individuals from the difficulties of generating electricity or pumping water, cloud computing frees users from certain hardware and software installation and maintenance tasks through the use of simpler hardware that accesses a vast network of computing resources (processors, hard drives, etc.). The sharing of resources reduces the cost to individuals.

So, what does this mean for you, the VoIP Service Provider? This mainly impacts business users of VoIP since they traditionally have had to install a physical PBX box or gateway in order to utilize business features of their phone service, like multiple extensions, call transfer, etc. When an IP-PBX is hosted “in the cloud,” these businesses no longer need PBX boxes, routers, or gateways in their facility. Instead, the PBX is hosted for them outside of their location by their VoIP Service Provider.

In this case, they will have web access to their provisioning and billing system to track their usage, manage extensions, etc. but they won’t have the cost and inconvenience of maintaining hardware at their location.

To find out more about how you can offer your own brand of cloud based VoIP to business users, view more information here: http://ipsmarx.com/cms/english/solutions/pbx.html.