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The
interview with Ian Bowen-Morris starts at minute 43. He starts with
his career, tells about the challenges at Yell.com, the product Telnames
is offering, the differences of .tel to other domain extensions and the
competition and differences compared to Yellow Pages. He is
especially very pleased to have cracked online self-service for small
businesses and the long-tail of small businesses Telnames is attracting. He
continues about how Telnames attract new customers and future
activities like entering all English speaking areas and the European
market in 2013 and upcoming apps for interaction with Telnames. He
points out the market shift to mobiles and finishes with how easy it is
to integrate customer videos into Telnames. Nice job!
Go West – Focus on Bristol
Telnames has launched its first ever radio advertising campaign and
is proud to be debuting its new ad spots across the city of Bristol
right now.
With a strong university base and a global reputation as a hub for
innovative start-ups, Bristol has long been associated with the very
best that new technology can offer, so it’s an appropriate launch pad
for Telnames’s inaugural radio campaign, as we bring the message “go
mobile in minutes” to small businesses across the UK. Over the next few
weeks, listeners to Bristol station Heart FM will be able to hear
how Telnames .tel websites are boosting business for local boiler
specialists Combiline, beauty salon Aura Hair and Beauty and
decorating services firm Scott
Feltham.
You can listen to our radio advertisements in full using the links
below, and we’ll be posting customer stories on all the featured
Telnames .tel owners over the coming days. If you’re a Bristol-based
business and want to tell your Telnames story, we’d love to hear from
you. Here are all the ways you can get in touch with us: http://telnames.tel/ Telnames – 30 second advert Telnames – recap Aura Hair and Beauty Combiline Scott Feltham Bristol in bitesize facts
Population of 428,100 – the largest city in the South West
7th largest city in England outside of London and one of
England’s eight ‘Core Cities’
Green Capital, the UK’s first Cycling
City, and also a Fairtrade City
Home to 17,500 businesses, including Airbus (UK), Rolls-Royce, BBC,
Hewlett Packard, Toshiba Research Europe and Orange
More than a third of UK-owned FTSE 100 companies have a presence in
the Bristol area
Birthplace of Ribena, Wallace and Gromit, the Plimsoll Line, Tarmac,
Concorde, Schweppes and the motorbike sidecar
Over 25% of the world’s natural history films are made in Bristol,
most of these at the BBC’s
Natural History Unit
The .tel has the power to accommodate lot of new ideas. However, they
are developed within the available options for developers. A sample
weather widget we created for .tel domains is available here at www.new-york-city.wx.tel.
Above are two screenshots of the weather widget we have provided for
new-york-city.wx.tel. We can provide similar weather widgets for any geo
position in the USA at present. Weather forecasts for other
cities/towns anywhere in the world can be provided on any .tel page as
shown above.
If you have a geo domain, then you may allocate a separate tel page
(there 3000 tel pages or sub domains that comes with every .tel domain)
dedicated for weather forecast.
Similar widgets for Stock market quotes, Forex rates, Auction updates,
Bargain Sales, Lottery results etc can be designed and displayed on any
.tel page.
The power of personal branding – an interview
with Thomas Power
If you maintain a professional online profile – such as a LinkedIn
page – or if you’ve done any business networking on the web, the chances
are that you’ve come across the name Thomas Power. A renowned author,
speaker and C-level gun-for-hire, Thomas has worked in the technology
industry for over 30 years and, true to his name, is widely known as a
power networker extraordinaire. With his wife Penny Power, Thomas was a
founder of business networking website Ecademy,
and is now focused on what he describes as “internet business
development” – helping CEOs and business owners to harness the latest
social media platforms and online tools to grow their business. With a
reputation as an early adopter and a passion for the latest and greatest
online technologies, Thomas – of course – has a Telnames .tel profile,
so we spoke to him about his work and asked for his thoughts on his. tel
as a business tool… Tell us about what you’re working on right now…
We sold our business networking website Ecademy in July of this year,
which is actually our third successful exit as business owners. I now
sit on half a dozen boards as a non-executive director, chairman or as
an investor. Penny has a new group of companies focused on the education
sector and the youth unemployed, so we’re already reinvesting our money
in other companies. How much time do you spend managing your social media
presence?
It never ends. Everyone knows that I try every system until I get bored
with it. Right now, all of my time is being spent on Google+. If you
roll forward another five of six years, I think Google+ will be
dominant. I think its success will mainly be down to the clever
integration with elements such as Gmail, which is delivering major
benefits for my personal productivity. It really is light years ahead of
any other platform out there. And the more effort you put into Google+,
the better your search results and served adverts get, so it’s a very
powerful system. I also currently have a big focus on cloud computing,
since this is the largest driver of the next draft of new businesses
being born in Silicon Valley.
In terms of social media in general, I’ve worked hard over the years
to maintain a major online presence. I’m a member of 700 networks, I
currently have 80,000 followers on Twitter, I’m number one in the world
on LinkedIn,
I have more than 30,000 followers on Google+, and I manage a
massive email database of 45,000. As a result, my online “authority” is
well-ranked, with a high Klout
score, Kred score and Peer
Index score. So, as you can see, I’m a hugely active networker.
This isn’t about ego or online “status” though – I invest the time to
learn how all these systems work so that I can advise directors and the
boards that I sit on. As a former plc director, I empathise with how
difficult it is to run a company and keep up with constantly evolving
technology. So I try to position myself as a digital non-executive
director, a companion for the CEOs as they climb up Mount Everest. I’m
trying to be the porter – the one who carries the bags and cooks your
food and pitches your tent up when you’re scaling the mountain.
I’m always looking at new technology and when Ian Bowen-Morris
[Telnames’ Chief Marketing Officer] showed me Telnames, I was
immediately interested. What drew you to Telnames?
Firstly, I love HTML5 because it saves you the burden of having to
develop an iPhone app, an Android app, and a Windows app – you just
create one version and it works seamlessly across all the platforms. The
implementation by Telnames is excellent, including your Twitter
details, Facebook page and YouTube videos. So, I was really keen to set
up http://www.thomaspower.tel.
It looks terrific, many people have commented on it, and contacts are
already phoning me on my mobile straight from my Telnames .tel profile,
which is perfect. It’s just a really convenient mobile profile and keeps
everything in a single location. It’s useful for anyone who wants to
contact me on the move and, because it’s a top-level domain name, Google
indexes it within 24 hours. That’s really significant. I’ve also added http://www.thomaspower.tel
to my Twitter profile – it’s such a neat user experience when you click
through especially for mobile Twitter users. Now I’m looking to include
my .tel in all my online profiles. What type of businesses and professionals would benefit from a
.tel?
The Telnames .tel product is a simple, clean mobile profile without all
the complicated interaction of “likes” and comments. It’s totally
functional and so it’s a perfect entry point for having an online
presence – it works well for businesses taking a first step online as
well as those that have a website but realise it doesn’t display nicely
on mobile phones. Also, from a personal point of view, we all do many
different things and have many part-time jobs, so having a single
profile for your own “brand” – your name – is key, in fact an important
part of managing your online reputation. I’ve built my personal Thomas
Power brand online over 15 years, so having my own .tel is a natural
step for me.
It’s a simple to use yet very effective product, so I think it has
very wide application for businesses and individuals looking to get
noticed online. It looks great on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. When I
show it to people they invariably say “That’s cool, what’s that
called?”. And I’m happy to tell them it’s my .tel name, my smart digital
profile.
You can find Thomas online at http://thomaspower.org and, of course,
at http://www.thomaspower.tel.
And don’t forget to secure your personal .tel name here. Personal brand
building starts here!
We’re delighted to be winners of the
Innovation Challenge by the EIDQ, the Association for the Directory
Information and Related Search Industry in Europe when we presented at
their conference in London this week
We are pleased to announce that we will be providing open source scripts
(php5.3 + MySQL + JQuery + JQuery Mobile) similar to that of TELcpV3+
in one bundle or in modules (i.e. 1.Manage Records 2.Manage Ads etc).
These will be in the form of web applications that can be hosted in most
of the hosting companies in the world.
Also you will be able to host them in your own computer (We will explain
you how to do this, including how to install a self signed SSL
certificate in your own computer which will enable you to maintain a
secure connection to the CTH).
However, these apps will not require OAuth, and will be limited
to manage your own .tel domains only (as they will be using your own log
in credentials)
If successful, we will work on FREE iphone, android apps too.
Please stay tuned or send pm if you wish to be inform back to you by pm.
Also follow us on twitter just to make sure that you will not be missing
the launching date etc.
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