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I like that first 1000 customers you must touch them personally. My biggest hinderance is getting a phone number that won't cost a fortune to call people in US
by curiously 12y ago
I like that first 1000 customers you must touch them personally.
My biggest hinderance is getting a phone number that won't cost a fortune to call people in US or abroad from Canada. some Canadian telecom companies absolutely adore ripping people off when it comes to dialing other countries as if we were in the 1980s.
Basically I want to approach my customers with a call me number that won't cost them a lot and won't cost me a lot to talk on.
I'm still reading through this wonderful guide it is ripe with useful information.
- dangrossman 12y agoUse the dialer in Hangouts (Android's default messaging app), and calls to US and Canada are free. VOIP is the answer to free or nearly free calls with all your customers. You can get an 800 number for ~$2/month to make it toll-free for them.
- curiously 12y agoI have hangouts on my android phone but I don't know what my hangout number is. The $2/month, where can I find that? All in all, I want to talk with my customers and do a tech demo (would need a tool to share screen as well).
- mrmch 12y agoHangouts can still work for this, you can do a screenshare in a video hangout. Requires everyone to have google accounts though (personal or business). There are also numerous great conference/screen share tools out there, like speek.com
- curiously 12y agohow do you find out your hangout number so that people can call you at that number?
- gargarplex 12y agoSkype has unlimited USA and Canada calling for $2.95/month
- curiously 12y agodoes this give me a number that they can call or do they have to be on skype to call me?
- gargarplex 12y agoDedicated number is $18/3m or $60/12m incl. VAT.
- notatoad 12y agoTwilio is pretty reasonable
- personlurking 12y agoMy hindrance is that no one responds to any form of communication via the internet, targeted to specific people who could benefit from my product. Sure, it's basically relevant spam, individualized for the person receiving it, but for an aggregation service, how else can I know what people think of my product if no one actually sees it (aside from being on Twitter, et al, which also isn't helping much).