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.

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!

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.

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.

View Photos of the IPsmarx Canadian Office

Home to the IPsmarx Research & Development labs, our Canadian office is located in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario. Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. It has diversity that works.

This IPsmarx location sits at 44 Victoria Street in the Victoria tower.

View More About Our IPsmarx USA Location

Since we deal with clients in 66 different countries, most of them do not get to see our physical offices. Here’s some more information about our USA office, located in Reston, Virginia.

This IPsmarx location sits on the Dulles Technology Corridor. Nicked named the “high tech colossus” by Virginia Business and “net plex” by Fortune Magazine. “Vital electronic pathways that carry more than half of all traffic on the Internet. The region is home to more telecom and satellite companies than any other place on earth” – Fortune Magazine.

The Corridor is an international leader in research, technological and development. It is the perfect location for VoIP development.

IPsmarx USA

IPsmarx Technology Inc.

11710 Plaza America Drive, Suite 2000
Reston, VA 20190

Tel: 703-779-3594
Fax: 703-814-8576

Download Our Free Report on How to Start a Calling Card Business

If you’ve been thinking about starting your own calling card or PINless service, our free report on How to Start a Calling Card Business may give you some insight.

Click here to download: www.ipsmarx.com/lp/callingcard

In the report you’ll find out:

1. The advantages of owning your own brand instead of reselling for someone else.

2. How to make more profit by establishing your own brand.

3. Where to get the technology, software, and services needed to become a calling card provider.

4. How to sell PINless services.

5. How to set up a website to sell your services and cards online.

6. How to compete against older and larger calling card providers, and win!

7. The 7 reasons to start a calling card business today.

Download your free report today! www.ipsmarx.com/lp/callingcard

IPsmarx Adds Russian IVR to Their Award Winning Calling Card Solution

IPsmarx Technology Inc. is pleased to announce that we are now offering a Russian IVR language option to compliment our Calling Card Platform.  Russian is a language spoken by about 277 million people mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

By adding Russian to the 14 existing IVR language options, IPsmarx service providers can now sell prepaid calling cards and PINless service in these regions with a voice response in Russian.

The IPsmarx SIP Based Calling Card Platform offers pin & pinless solutions, advanced recharge options, integrated billing and unique marketing features that will make your business successful. Our SIP Based Calling Card solution has even been named as Winner of the Best VoIP Product of the Year for two years in a row!

Other IVR languages include:

• Arabic
• German
• English
• British English
• American English
• Spanish
• Korean
• Mandarin
• Cantonese
• Greek
• Albanian
• French
• Farsi
• Hindi

To learn more about adding one of these languages to your current platform, please contact your account manager. For more information about “How to Start a Calling Card Business” sign up to view a webinar at: http://www.ipsmarx.com/lp/17/ or visit our website at: http://ipsmarx.com/

VoIP Trends in the Middle East

Despite regulatory challenges reinforced by large Telco’s, it is becoming hard to ignore the rising demand of VoIP Service Providers in most of the Middle Eastern countries where VoIP is regulated.

Start ups are usually providing call shop and SIP services to their customers, whereas bigger service providers are focusing on capitalising on the ever growing wholesale market share, being prepared for any major change pertaining to VoIP regulations; which are speculated to take place sooner than later.

With a solution that can be hosted and run in a different geographic location, IPsmarx caters to service providers whom are competing to capitalise and get into the Middle Eastern markets that are VoIP thirsty. From Callshop and Callback services to Wholesale and Multi Tenant IP-PBX systems, IPsmarx has successfully designed and deployed systems with features and services tuned to meet the demands and ease the challenges of every customer.

To learn more about IPsmarx, visit our website at: http://ipsmarx.com/ or contact us at: info@ipsmarx.com