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As the TechCrunch news tip page says, they'll feature you only if you are news worthy and if you break the news thru them. Its the same with Mashable. But I su

As the TechCrunch news tip page says, they'll feature you only if you are news worthy and if you break the news thru them. Its the same with Mashable. But I suggest you get your first batch of users with just word-of-mouth marketing. These users would stay with you if they like the service. Those visitors who come by blog and advertising traffic give you no gurantee that theyll stay with you. Most will just be one-time visitors. By the way, is Talkster your site? Coz when I clicked the link 30 countries I was led to Talkster. Incase this is your competitors's site, don't link to them. Just create your own page. You might lose users this way. Coz when users click the 30 countries link and then click the home link(they'll be on tlkster and signup for talkster). I tried signing up my country isn't listed. Talkster also supports using Google Talk if I'm gonna call from a non-supported country. Thats what I noticed from their register form. Do you have any plans to support this feature? Your service sounds cool. You don't need TechCrunch/GigaOm/Mashable/etc. All you need is a handful of friends to tell them about this. Free calls to 30 countries(!). Who wouldn't save phone bills? Nice service! Good luck! :)

ruslan 18y ago
Right. I read through their news-tip hints, but I still cannot get what it means to "breaking the news through them" ? I send them a couple of tips, a week before the launch, noone responded back. How do you make them responding to your emails at all ? I believe my emails were deleted before reaching the destination :-) FreeRinger is a joint service made by us (GTalk2VoIP, Inc) and Talkster. We are developing the gateway and the flash app parts while Talkster runs their extensive voip network. That's why we refer to them on our site. The app currently allows to make calls to SIP phones as well, calling to Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo is coming soon. :-) Thanks for reviewing.
- SingAlong 18y ago
  "breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news. Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky. Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun.
- SingAlong 18y ago
  "breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news. Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky. Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun. Also, can the method u use to make free calls be used to send free sms? I have a requirement in my startup to send sms. But there's only one carrier in my country which has a free email to sms gateway. The rest charge millions. If yes, then is the a way i can contact you?
  - ruslan 18y ago
    Yes, I understand that they want to be the first guy, but I was not able to contact them in any ways before release, so we send PRs through the "standard" channel. And my emails were very short, I can see it quite clear that nobody expects to receive essays in emails :-). My frustration came when none of the dozen top bloggers I sent tips to did not respond. Our calling method cannnot be applied to SMSes, sorry. We are using Clickatell to sends SMS notifications to users which cost us quite a lot.

ruslan 18y ago

Right. I read through their news-tip hints, but I still cannot get what it means to "breaking the news through them" ? I send them a couple of tips, a week before the launch, noone responded back. How do you make them responding to your emails at all ? I believe my emails were deleted before reaching the destination :-) FreeRinger is a joint service made by us (GTalk2VoIP, Inc) and Talkster. We are developing the gateway and the flash app parts while Talkster runs their extensive voip network. That's why we refer to them on our site. The app currently allows to make calls to SIP phones as well, calling to Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo is coming soon. :-) Thanks for reviewing.

SingAlong 18y ago
"breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news. Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky. Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun.
SingAlong 18y ago
"breaking news thru them" means that they wanna be the first one amomg the mass media to break the news. Hint hint: make sure the PRs you released weren't being indexed by a search engine. A google search is the first thing they would do. :) make your emails short and not an essay about what you do. Let you service not be common. Atleast hav some different features. If these and 'more' conditions of theirs are satisfied. You should be lucky. Also mashable has a separate category which features a startup every week. That category is sponsored by Sun. Also, can the method u use to make free calls be used to send free sms? I have a requirement in my startup to send sms. But there's only one carrier in my country which has a free email to sms gateway. The rest charge millions. If yes, then is the a way i can contact you?
- ruslan 18y ago
  Yes, I understand that they want to be the first guy, but I was not able to contact them in any ways before release, so we send PRs through the "standard" channel. And my emails were very short, I can see it quite clear that nobody expects to receive essays in emails :-). My frustration came when none of the dozen top bloggers I sent tips to did not respond. Our calling method cannnot be applied to SMSes, sorry. We are using Clickatell to sends SMS notifications to users which cost us quite a lot.