Autumn Agent Contest

You were advised it was coming and now it’s finally here! Tel3Advantage proudly introduces its Autumn Agent Bonus Contest. Throughout the month of September any agent who brings in at least $500 in revenue with any Tel3 Plan, will receive one of the following below bonuses. And that’s not all. The agent who brings in the greatest revenue amount for the month of September will receive the Grand Prize Bonus of $1000. Allow yourselves to accomplish more in the month of September with the Autumn Agent Bonus Contest.

$500-$999=$50 Bonus

$1000-$2499=$100 Bonus

$2500+=$250

Grand Prize for Top Revenue=$1000

Be advised bonuses will be paid out the first week of October.

New Rate Reductions

You asked for it and now we are honoring your request. Tel3Advantage has lowered its already unbelievable low rates to the following destinations effective today.

Free Signup Traffic!

Since Tel3Advantage is driven by the hard work and dedication of our agents we would like to thank you by providing you free sign up traffic with a performance based system.

Effective immediately! Any customer who visits our site and attempts to sign up without an agent promo code will no longer be asked to sign up as an agent. Customers will now be allowed to proceed with the signup process by having this traffic forwarded to our top agents’ sign up pages based on their performance last month.

Visitor traffic without any promo code will be forwarded to your sign up pages based on your last month performance:

Agent with the most sales revenue =30% traffic

Agent with the 2^nd highest number of sales revenue=20% traffic

Agent with the 3^rd highest number of sales revenue=10% traffic

And the last 40% will be forwarded evenly to agents who made over $ 500 in revenue for the month. Be advised free traffic signups that are distributed will not be counted towards agents earned revenue.

This is our testing phase of the of the traffic forwarding system and we are very interested in receiving your feedback and finding out what you think. We are 100% committed to the success of our agents. The more signups you bring, the more signup potential you will have from customers without a promo code as well.

We Have Great News For You!

We have great news for our new and existing agents. Along with the new product launches, we will also revise the monthly quota structure for Flex Plan and make it even much more attractive for you! Effective September, 1, 2008 you will benefit from the following changes in the commission structure.

Combined Quota - You will receive full recharge commissions for customers older than 30 months by securing $500 in total sign up revenue from any of our 3 plan: Flex Plan, Tel3Business, and Tel3Mobile. So, by simply bringing one $500 Tel3Business sign up you will qualify to get full recharge commissions earned on any of our plans.

40% Reduction in Quota - Currently with the existing 30 sign up quota, you have to generate on average about $900 in sign up revenue to reach the target. However, with the new $500 sales requirement, there is almost 40% reduction in monthly sales quota which will enable you to meet your goals easier and faster.

Best of all, we will go one step further and also combine the recharges as well on all products and you will need to achieve one combined target to go up the ladder for higher levels of recharge commissions:

Combined Recharges - Recharge commissions for all three plan will also be combined. For established agents, this means a significant advantage to increase your recharge commission level by adding new Business Plan accounts and Mobile Plan accounts to your portfolio. Hence you don't need to start building Tel3Business and Tel3Mobile recharges from "zero".

You will start enjoying recharge commission payment from your new accounts on Day 1 since you already exceeded the minimum $500 limit with your existing Flex Plan customers. Due to the combined recharges for all three plans, reaching the monthly recharge requirements and increasing recharge commission levels will be much easier and faster for new and existing agents.

Tel3Advantage works in the best interest of our agents and by working  together as partners all things are possible. Remember this new combined quota opportunity will begin September 1st so get out there and once again enjoy the opportunity you have, to increase your revenue.

Search Engine Marketing tips for B2B

Today, I want to share couple interesting highlights about SEO and its importance in business to business marketing. It is exciting to know that as it is in B-to-C, most of the business buyers go online to search products and suppliers based on marketing research conducted by Forrester Research. Below is the typical sales cycle for a b-to-b transaction, and here online search and website plays a very important role in initiating the interest and the lead!

 

We believe that the white paper and the information on the website will be very helpful in engaging the business buyers during the evaluation process. We will continue doing tests and optimize the pages to create the optimum experience for the visitors and businesses.

The biggest challenge again is to bring traffic to the website. Another important aspect is that based on the Business Products Buyers Survey conducted in 2007, 80% of the decision makers stated that they found the product vendor by themselves instead of being targeted or pitched by the Sales Network of the Vendor. That alone clearly shows the importance of "search marketing" for b-to-b transactions. Obviously targeting the import/export companies with a sales letter attached with the whitepaper explaining the services is a great way of increasing the awareness and with simple and precise proposals, it will work out great. Along with this direct approach, you can also at the same time, increase your efforts with SEO and let them find you.

SEO is great because you can reach out business buyers at all different stages of the buying cycle - from initial exploration to final consideration. You can guess at what stage a buyer is in by what search terms they use and/or what pages they click on. So, you have the opportunity to present stage-appropriate materials, landing pages. Example:

• Early stage search: May use broad generic terms, such as "International Calling"
• Slightly more considered search: May use more defined terms to narrow the results, often by industry or country, such as "International Calling to Canada"
• Later stage search: May include a specific feature or a brand name, such as "International Calling to Canada with Blackberry"

Basic types of Search Engine Marketing are SEO, PPC, Vertical Search Engines and Contextual Ads. A mixture of all channels would help boost the conversions much better than relying only on one channel.

SEO is basically about optimizing your own website, attracting more organic traffic from the search engines. It is the best way in terms of ROI because it is a fixed cost, however it takes a long hard-working effort, and you will see the results in 3-6 months.

With PPC as you all know, it is the quickest mean of advertising but at the same time, the most competitive one.   Google Adwords, Yahoo and MSN are top three search engines, and here you can use different keyword groups again as discussed above to reach out different buyers at different buying cycle, so that you can give them more relevant information to engage them in their evaluation.

Vertical Search Engines are effective means of generating traffic, because the audience is far more qualified than general searchers. You can search the web to find telecom search engines or business search engines and promote yourself in there as well. Some examples are business.com, verticalsearch.com.

Contextual ads are another great way to put your offer in front of people who are looking for relevant content. You may want to check the great example of Virgin airlines contextual banner ad. The downside obviously is that prospects are not actively looking for your product, so for best results requires different keyword groups, ad copy and auction strategy than regular PPC campaigns.

As a final note, here you can find seven copywriting tips for your business websites. Any questions, suggestion, ideas? Let us know.

End of Summer Promotion

We are pleased to announce that beginning August 15^th -25^th; TEL3 Advantage will celebrate our End of the Summer Double Free Minutes Signup Promotion. During this promotion all new customers will receive up to 946 free minutes. This promotion will not only give you the opportunity to increase your signups but should help you also increase your revenue.  So what are you waiting for? Get Signups! Increase Your Revenue! Let’s make our End of the Summer Promotion count!

Six things you need to know about Tel3 Business

Over the last week, we received excellent feedback and questions from you regarding the Tel3 Business Plan and I would like to share it with everybody which I believe is very important points for all Agents to know. We value our Agents very much and hence will always make sure to give credits all the time:

1. Which markets are we competing with?: This is the best part of Tel3 Business, because we are competing with three different services and we have the niche advantage over all our competitors. In a nutshell, Tel3 Business is the simplest way of making International calls from any phone for business users and it is the least risky and most efficient way of controlling the budget for business owners! (a) Businesses use cell phones more and more due to mobility and flexibility requirement, so our Solution definitely will help them provide a much cheaper way of making calls from cellphone with our Smartplug feature. Tel3 Business has clear cost advantage over wireless operators. (b) Businesses use VoIP solutions from offices at very low rates, however, they are dependent on Internet connection, plus they are not designed as good as our solution for businesses. You cannot limit each individual employees' budget per month, the reporting is not flexible. Hence, Tel3 Business has flexibility (use it anywhere anytime) and design advantage over VoIP solutions. (c) Obviously, it has a big advantage over any other calling card company with unique business friendly design and functionality.
2. How to promote Tel3 Business?: You are ready to go by just adding your Agent Number at the end of the Tel3 Business URL: http://www.tel3advantage.com/business/index.jsp?AgentNumber=XXXXX. You can surely select other pages (benefits, whitepaper, etc) as well to promote which is always good with a detailed context to capture customer attention. Once the customer visit from your link, as it is in Tel3 Advantage, you will get the full credit for the signup. furthermore, we also store your promo code during the download the whitepaper page so that we can keep track of the agent as well going forward. Lets say, when a customer comes thru your link and downloads the report today and comes back three days later direct to the website, we will still give the credit to the agent who bring the customer to the site for the first time, since you have initiated the first lead. We will protect your rights all the time and will do anything to give the credits correctly to protect your investments. This is a delicate issue for us so please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions and we will investigate and implement the most fair way.
3. Dedicated 800#s: The number that was posted on the homepage were static numbers (800-557-8403) and per your request we have changed it to dynamic dedicated 800#s that is provided by us to you. I know, dedicated 800#s help the agents alot and we would like to give you all the opportunity to customize this program on your needs. As you know, we will be also finalizing the all new Tel3 Mobile Plan very soon as well, so we will have a complete one simple dedicated 800# solution for you that you can promote only one number everywhere and once the customer calls in, they will be able to select from many options depending on their needs (either personal account, mobile or business account). To learn more about dedicated 800#s or how to get one please contact Agent Support at 1-800-330-6774 or at agentrelations@tel3advantage.com.
4. Agent Program Contact Info: Further to your feedback, we removed the Agent Program contact information from www.tel3business.com website, "About Us" webpage, to make this website solely for customers and not to confuse any potential business with agent program.
5. Customers without a Promo Code: In order to prevent any confusion for the customers again, when a customer finds the website directly,  we will give them the option to select one of the agent promo codes to continue signing up. As you know, in Tel3 Advantage, when a customer do not have a promo code, they have couple options, one to become an agent by themselves, or find another agent website to continue sign up. So, with the Tel3 Business, to keep the momentum and also protect our existing agents, we do not give the potential customer the option to sign-up as an agent and then as a customer at the same time. They need to sign-up under an existing agent all the time to become legitimate customer. For now, the best fair way, we come up with is to provide with our top 5 agents promo code with a menu that will be updated every week based on the traffic/visitors they bring to Tel3business.com website.
6. Reporting on the back-office for Tel3 Business accounts: Any new customer sign up for Tel3 Business, you will be able to see it in your back-office. There is also a drop down menu, where you can filter your reports for business accounts only. To learn more about the commission structure, please review Business Plan Briefing post. We will post an amendment to your back-office shortly for details.

I hope we could have answered some of your questions. Please do not hesitate to post a comment or contact us and tell us about your ideas, suggestions or questions that you have.

Introducing TEL3Business!

TEL3 is introducing TEL3Business Plan, revolutionary all in one International long distance solution providing the Businesses Mobility, Flexibility and Cost Effectiveness.

The TEL3Business is designed to provide the businesses with one simple solution for all their International Calling needs and can help the Businesses decrease their telecom budgets substantially and make it easy to manage with one simple web-based admin tool.

You can get detailed information about the features and the service by downloading our Free Whitepaper in Tel3Business website!

Increase in international trade, along with increase in mobility and popularity of smart cell phones, are driving the telecom budgets up for many small companies in US. There are more than one million companies that are trading goods overseas and about 97% of it is small companies. Furthermore, the sales of smart phones are almost doubling every year (106% growth in 2007 alone in US), and TEL3 is very well positioned in this business segment with its unique features like “Smartplug” which is the best International Calling application for cell phones and its advanced web-based dashboard specifically designed for business owners and managers.

International Calling for Small Businesses is a very lucrative and fast growing niche market that TEL3 has great advantage of with its Tel3 Business Plan’s advanced services and it is a great opportunity for you to start promoting this Solution and add additional revenue stream to your bottom-line.

The TEL3business Plan combines the best of three worlds by giving the Businesses the quality of traditional phone service and flexibility of cell phone providers with the inexpensive rates of prepaid phone cards or voip providers. This unique plan was created for businesses who value simplicity and convenience.

Five main aspects that separates TEL3 from the competition:

• The service comes with a free application to be downloaded on the cell phone that enables seamless international calling direct from phone or address book. No need to dial any access, or account number. This feature alone changes the whole dial around concept while keeping all the benefits of cost saving, convenience, being able to track call history and keep your budget down.

• Tel3 Business solution is available from any phone; account holders can still use their same account while making calls from any payphone or office phone which enables a complete solution for international calling for businesses.

• Compared to AT&T and Verizon, up to 80% saving opportunity in rates. Even as economic as VoIP solutions such as Skype and Vonage solutions with better features and reporting module. You can call more than 200 countries with Tel3 Business solution.

• It is a prepaid service, no investment, no installment required. Setup within 15 minutes. 30 day money back guarantee. Basically no risk involved for the business owner.

• State of the art web-based dashboard provided for the administrators to run individual or departmental expense reports, manage limits of usage per user, add, and/or remove users from the system upon company needs.

We appreciate all your valuable feedback about the website & the service and please do not hesitate to send us your suggestions and comments so that we can improve our service even more!
Thank you.