TEL3Advantage Introduces Its Revolutionary Commission Structure

Because compensation is a crucial part or any effective sales organization we have created a new and improved compensation plan that is critical to the success of our agents. We have moved towards a new structure focused on new customer signups as well as the productivity of our agents. The new commission structure is expected to increase agent activity resulting in overall higher commission earning and lower customer acquisition costs.

The Tel3 Advantage commission structure is by far the most competitive commission structures in the industry. Agents are provided top of the line commission standards and the opportunity to increase their commission by up to 80% of the customer’s original signup amount. Agents will be compensated accordingly based on their current activity. We look forward to moving ahead to the next phase of Tel3 Advantage. As our lifetime partners, join us on this journey as we exceed all expectations.

Please click here to review the New Commission Structure.

New Agent Program Web Page

Calling all agents!

Please take a moment to review the brand New Agent Program Web Page. The highly anticipated new and creative features will make it more attractive for potential agents to sign up. Agents and potential agents now have direct access to video tutorials giving you step by step directions on how to sign up as an agent and how to fully utilize the agent back office. Visitors can also review our agent blog and get a sneak peek at the communication portals that are provided to our agents. With the new face of the Agent Program web page visitors will without a doubt capture the many benefits of becoming a Tel3Advantage Agent.

Take a moment to review the new agent program page and give us your feedback!

Performance Based

If you don't measure it, you can't manage.

It seems obvious, but believe me it is so true and forgotten most of the time as well. When you look into the successful companies, individuals, you will see a clear vision with clear goals and performance based management style.

We implemented in our company an internal scorecard system recently, and now each individual within the organization has a better idea of how its performance will effect the company, and which key indicators to concentrate on to improve the value of the company and its department.

We appreciate the better performers and give more incentives to these individuals while giving all the tools to others to empower them with the responsibilities and it pays off eventually.

We want customers who spend more, we want agents/affiliates who bring more customers, we want employees who execute and manage better, so it is the performance based management style, platform that we need, in order to get the most synergies out of this equation. We are developing one.    

Davos Question

(Photo: World Economic Forum)

What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?

This is a tough question, isn’t it? But I am sure everyone has an idea, big or small, utopia or real, the idea that can start changing the world for the better. Davos is the place where many CEOs, presidents and prime ministers, influencer, experts from media and art get together to discuss the global issues such as extreme poverty, climate crisis and regional conflicts due to water, limited resources and so on.

Now, with the help of YouTube, it is not just the few people who are contributing to the discussion but rather anyone who has idea and willing to share…

So, what is your take on it? How do you think you can make a change…

New Customer Signup Page

You've asked for it and now it's finally available! In an effort to increase your conversion rates and improve agent commissions TEL3 Advantage has created a new and improved customer signup page. This new simplified signup process will allow customers to signup hassle free within minutes and begin using our services. Customers will also have the ability to chat with a customer sales representative if they are having a problem completing any portion of the signup process. The new simplified customer signup process is just another example of the measures that are being taken to provide our agents with the tools necessary to stay competitive in today's changing marketplace.

Please visit the Tel3Advantage  New Signup Page and let us know what you think.

Web analysts to lead politics?

For all the primaries and caucuses, there is one thing in common; the numbers and analytics matter! With so much information available and many tools to gather it, it is becoming more important than ever to translate that into a meaningful, powerful action plan. I believe the very best two groups of people that get the most benefits from predictive analytics are politicians and web analysts.

If you happen to watch CNN lately, you would have realized that just after the polls are closed, they start providing all the statistics, either from entry or exit polls, from the surveys they do, and the opinions of experts analyzing the numbers… and in couple of hours amazing things happen, analysts interpret the numbers, results and come up with a resolution regarding the outcome and the candidates already know what is the direction that they will follow until the next primary.

So, the main thing out of that primary is not just who won, but also why he or she lost so that they can adjust the campaign and plan their road map to get more votes in the next one! Moreover, it is so obvious that the text of the candidates’ speech is prepared just after analyzing the outcome. So, they know how many votes they can get from each channel, from each socio-economic group, from each segment so to say, and they have a formula to come up with the expected number of vote they may get on the next one based on the performance of each element/segment.

Avinash explains the predictive analytics in his blog recently, and gives a very good example of which elements affect the outcome of website conversion rate. The aim of web analytics is of course to understand how the website is performing and come up with actionable items to improve the goal conversion obviously. The predictive analytics is extremely helpful exercise to understand what matters and moreover how much it matters to get a better result from your website. As a final note to wrap up Avinash’s example, he mainly points out the below items as the elements to predict the conversion:

• Acquisition strategy/channel (ppc, affiliate networks, social networks etc)
• Organic ranking of the head keywords
• Cart/check out complexity (which is very much highlighted by the people who comment to his blog as well)
• Primary purpose of the visit

so on... We continually invest in analytics and search passionately for better answers to increase the revenues and customer satisfaction as you do. Next week, we will launch the new sign-up page which is expected to have a significant positive impact on the conversion rate for all of us.   

Please share your ideas, questions and comments with us. Thank you.

TEL3Advantage Welcomes Tolsek Printing Services

Tel3Advantage would like to welcome Tolsek as our preferred printing company. With their help, agents can order & print Tel3Advantage's marketing materials directly from their website.  Tolsek offers the most advanced printing equipment with a one-of-a-kind polishing system and will provide our agents with the most affordable & reasonable prices available.  Keep in mind that all agents have the right to use their printing company of choice.  All payments for printing materials will be handled via Tolsek's website once orders are approved.

January Web Conference - 2008 Tel3 at a glance

2007 was a very successful year for this program, a turnaround year, but we now look forward to 2008. In this web conference we talk about what has been accomplished, the new direction of the company since over 18 months and what is our goal & plan for 2008. At the end of the presentation, you can find the Q&A session.

It is time to spread the word out as always, so do not hesitate to share this presentation with your friends and colleagues. Best regards.

Agent Holiday Contest Winners

Congratulations on the stunning performances of our winners of the December Agent Holiday Contest.  With your help December was one of our most successful months to date.  Stay tuned as we inform you of other lucrative and exciting opportunities coming in 08. 

1^st Lisa Taylor      

2^nd Aleppo Inc.     

3^rd Aurora Pragides 

Making distance local

Small is the new big, this is what the marketing guru Seth Godin posted in his blog about couple of years ago. It is an excellent blog by the way for you who have not checked it yet; I would highly recommend you to read, you can find invaluable insight about marketing and business.

How about now, do his comments hold still true? You bet! In today’s fierce competition, being small which enables you to make decision quickly and communicate with your value network directly is getting more important than ever! Think about Facebook over MySpace, Apple over Microsoft and so on.

We have accomplished many positive things in 2007 in terms of operational efficiency and new marketing tools as you can find in our last newsletter of 2007. However, the exciting part is still yet to come… We will move forward quickly as always, adopt the change and even more importantly change the game with the help of our collaborative leadership, lifetime partnership with our agents and whole new value proposition to our customers.

This is not just a company that provides prepaid long distance services to its customers anymore as our entire competition does; rather it is an online marketing company that makes the distance local to its users. It means seamless service with smartplug, affordable pricing, stable call quality and of course honest, interactive communication with our customers and agents anytime anywhere while we started building our blogs, podcasts, lives chat, knowledgebase, video tutorials and many more. 

We will continue working hard, getting smaller in terms of making decisions and moving forward while thinking big in 2008 as we did last year! Thank you for being part of it.