Thanksgiving "Double4You" Promotion

Tel3advantage introduces it Thanksgiving "Double4You" Promotion, beginning November 16th-30th. All new customers signing up with Tel3Advantage and providing the "Double4You" event code will receive double the amount of free minutes upon signup. Keep in mind this promotion is not available to all agents on the Tel3Advantage web site, so make sure you take advantage of this exciting opportunity.

Both a banner and a landing page are provided below to our agents who are interested in adding this to your sites. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and let's work together to make November a month to remember!

Banner

http://agentblog.tel3advantage.com/.a/6a00e54ee6dfd18834010535f4bfa9970b-pi

Landing Page

http://www.tel3advantage.com/specials/double4you.jsp?agentnumber=YOURAGENTPROMOCODE

Now you can sync your SpeedDial list with your iPhone

Tel3Dialer's new version 1.2 is here! There are couple of exciting new features added that we believe is going to help you a lot;

• Setting up alternative Access Numbers: This was one of the most requested feature and it is now available. You can set up your access number either as a Local Access Number or Toll Free and also change your location based on where you are making the call from. As always, there are no rate differences when using any access number from this App; you set it up once and start dialing directly while enjoying the savings.

• Sync option for Speed Dial lists with iPhone: You've asked and we've listened. We know that many of you have hundreds of people on your contact list and would love to have a kind of "favorites" list on your iPhone just for your international calls that you can easily dial to. You can now use your existing Speed Dial list on your back office in TEL3 and sync it with your iPhone with a touch of a button. If you want to add more friends to your Speed Dial list, it is very easy, just login to your TEL3 account and save your changes. You can again sync your new list on the iPhone. This is yet another significant benefit for iPhone users.

• Pin dialing: This is also handy if you don't want to go to your TEL3 page to update your instant access number. Now you can add your account number and pin directly on the Tel3Dialer App and the App will do the rest as usual.

The Tel3Dialer App is free and now version 1.2 is available on iTunes for you to download.

Now, you can signup from your SmartPhone!

Recently we updated our triple promo landing pages and optimized them for iPhone screens as well. This way you can also start promoting Tel3Advantage on mobile ad networks and use another important channel with your marketing dollars. The pages are optimized and the content has been revised to display the necessary information and call to actions on the small screens. The page is also available for Android phones although we are aware (thanks to one of our valuable agents) of one problem that occurs on the sign up page. Thawte SSL certificates are not yet recognized automatically by android browsers and hence pops up some warning messages that we hope will be fixed as soon as android adds Thawte into their library source. For iPhone users, there is no such problem, the whole process is smooth and pages are easy to navigate.

Here you can find the screen shots on how it will look like when you visit triple plan landing page;

The promo code and the phone number will be carried over to track the sign ups as usual. Below you can see the sign up page as well, how it looks like on iPhone screen. Please visit the website with your smart phones, try by yourself and let us know about your experiences so that we can improve and make necessary changes. Thank you.

Tel3Advantage Introduces the Market Development Funds Program

Looking for a way to grow your sales, increase your customer base, and expand on that marketing idea all while lowering your advertising expenses? With the addition of the Market Development Funds Program agent's won't have to look any further!

The Market Development Funds Program was created to assist our agents as much as possible with their individual marketing and advertising goals by simply sharing the cost of your advertising expenses.

The Tel3Advantage Market Development Funds Program will be available to all agents that meet specified qualifications and submit innovative marketing ideas to be approved by Tel3Advantage. Projects that are carefully thought out, detailed, and have the potential of increasing our overall sales volume will be approved.

For additional information on the Tel3Advantage Market Development Funds Program please click here.

Pros and Cons of Online Ad Networks

I wanted to share with you some information and links about the Online Ad Networks. For online statistics, I have high trust on eMarketer because of their methodology. eMarketer itself doesn't do any research but they take all available market research papers out in the market and come up with an average statistics for each topic which makes them more reliable than individual reports.

Basic explanation of ad networks is that they are the intermediary companies who sell the excess inventory on the publishers website to advertisers at a reasonable price. Here you can get more detailed information about the ad networks and how they work.

According to a worldwide study by Econsultancy and the Rubicon Project, the main benefits of using ad networks for advertisers are increased reach, flexible payment models and lower costs.

The main challenge of the ad networks is the ad placement. Advertisers don't have control on where the ad will show up (because you are buying a lump sum inventory) and it may change the effectiveness of the campaign. Eventually it all comes down to ROI, but one thing is certain, everyday the spending on ad networks is increasing and this channel is something that certainly deserves a close look by any agent/affiliate.

There are many types of Ad Networks, including mobile platforms like Admob, content networks like GoogleAdSense, video platforms/channels like Videoegg and many others on each niche markets.

 

New Triple Promo Landing Page Feature

For the convenience of our customers and agents The TelAdvantage Triple Promo Landing Page can now be seen  and promoted in both English and Spanish. If someone is interested in receiving the Triple Promo Plan information is Spanish they can simply click the red tab that reads "espanol" on the top of the page and the information will appear in Spanish. If you would just prefer providing the link for the spanish translation the address is http://www.tel3advantage.com/content/triple-spanish.jsp

 
 

Winner Takes All Agent Contest Results

Congratulations to the Grand Prize Winner of our Winner Takes All Agent Contest! Due to hard work, determination, and effort our winner was able to bring in over 339 signups in the month of September, increasing his July signups by 36% and earning the Grand Prize Bonus of $2500. Our runner up was also able to  secure a $500 prize.

We would like to thank all of our agents who participated and helped to make the month of September one of our most memorable signup months, increasing our total signups by 16% compared to July, and 14% compared to last September. Stay tuned to your agent blog as we announce additional upcoming agent contests and promotions. Keep in mind that if you have an idea that you think might be beneficial for yourself as well as our other agent's we'd love to hear from you.

New changes in triple plan landing page

We added the new Tel3Apps information and promotion to the existing triple plan landing pages you already promote. Below you can find the screen shot from the landing page; we replaced the video section with the tel3apps information including FAQs and still kept the video (actually added the tel3dialer and smartplug videos as well) in this tab.

Tel3Apps become immediately one of the most popular features of Tel3 since its launch and we want to integrate it with all your marketing materials that will certainly help increase your sales.

Please stay tuned for more news; our next version of iPhone app which will include a sync option with existing speed dial list (favorites) will be available shortly.

New Video by Tel3Advantage

We designed and published a new 30 second video for Tel3Advantage.

What is new with this video?

• It is designed with Kinetic Topography technology which reflects the new dynamic culture of Tel3.
• We added the Tel3 Apps to the video and concentrated on cell phones.
• Simpler design, and more powerful call to action at the end.

Please let us know your feedback as always.

Please share or embed it on your websites. Thanks.

New Recharge Options

In an effort to provide our customers with the most convenient recharge options available, customers will now have the option to recharge their accounts for the $10 recharge denomination in addition to the $25, $50, and $100 amounts.  For added convenience customers will once again be able to manually recharge their accounts by simply logging into their customer backoffice and selecting the manual recharge option. So what are you waiting for? Get out there and inform your customers of the many benefits that comes along with the Tel3Advantage service today!