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Tips for running a business from your mobile

Ian Bowen-Morris It is possible to run a business from a mobile

Increasingly, companies are being run from mobile phones. Ian Bowen-Morris of Telnames gives some advice on how to manage your business this way.

As a small business owner, staying connected is crucial, not just to keep clients and contacts happy, but to avoid missing out on new business opportunities.
The good news is that with the advent of smartphones and tablets, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no longer tethered to their desks.
It’s no secret that mobile use has boomed in recent years; according to eDigitalResearch, six out of ten UK residents now own a smartphone and a recent survey from Nielsen reveals that 68 per cent of UK smartphone owners use their device to check email, peruse the mobile web (66 per cent) and social networking (63 per cent).
But it’s not just consumers embracing smartphones. According to a recent PeoplePerHour poll, nine out of ten SMEs are using mobile phones and apps to stay connected, organised and informed at all times.

See also: Government helps to get business up and running

From client relations to social content creation, online banking, and emailing, small business owners are proving that running their business from a phone isn’t just an interesting idea – it’s a daily reality.

Embrace social media marketing

Whether you’re a FTSE 100 company or an SME, social media platforms provide a way to talk to customers directly and market your brand to a growing number of mobile consumers.
If you’re not already running business Twitter and Facebook profiles, you’re missing out on chance to connect and engage with customers – the trick here is to ensure your content relevant, interesting and useful. When it comes to organising your social media feeds, try using Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to schedule future tweets and social updates weeks ahead.
While Facebook and Twitter tend to be where most companies start with social media, they’re not the only outlets. Platforms like Google+, Pinterest, Instagram and Vine are growing all the time. What’s important is finding the right fit for your company. For example, Pinterest and Instagram are image-led, so you need to think carefully about what works with your line of business.

Get optimised for mobile

No company can now afford to ignore the potential of mobile websites for customer acquisition. With Internet use on smartphones set to overtake desktop browsing in 2013, SMEs need to take full advantage of the boom in mobile search.
According to Google, half of all search queries on a mobile phone have local intent, so it’s essential you optimise your mobile website for your local area and improve your visibility in mobile search.
This will include ensuring your business is registered in free local listings like Google+Local, Bing for Business, Yelp, Brownbook, Hotfrog and Crunchbase. In terms of ranking factors, your business address, location targeted key works, local citations and location in the title tag are all important.
Finally, with 70 per cent of users taking action within an hour of completing a search on their smartphone, ensuring your website is mobile friendly website is a must.
According to Google, today’s online information searchers expect mobile websites to load in under five seconds, and make it easy to find the information they want – address, contact details, location details and map, opening hours and social network feeds.
Today’s hyper connected consumers won’t hang about waiting; 79 per cent of these local information seekers confirmed they’d quickly move onto another site if it didn’t deliver or perform against expectations.
As well as delivering what online searchers want, your mobile friendly website should be working hard for you. That means you need to be able to publish updates with ease and upload timely offers and vouchers that entice new customers and which you can promote via social media.

Become an innovator

The way small businesses interact with customers is changing thanks to the mobile internet, which makes it possible to be more responsive and more connected that ever before.
Offering a low cost way to directly communicate with consumers, every small business can take advantage of mobile marketing to push out notifications, get creative with social media, and stay visible in local online search.
UK SME’s are leading innovators in using mobile technologies to give their business the agility and responsiveness to compete alongside larger brands. Done right, marketing from your mobile is the perfect way to target potential or existing customers and add an extra personal touch.

Get .tel social!

Want to connect with customers in new ways? Why not tap into the power of smartphones and the use of popular mobile social apps to generate increased brand awareness?

Step 1: Reach out to mobile users with Facebook

Facebook is the number-one mobile social network. More and more, people are using their smartphones to keep up to date with friends and find out what’s happening right now with their favourite brands.
Keep your Facebook page updated with product news, customers stories and seasonal hints and tips to encourage activity (Likes, Comments and Shares) and positive feedback) from customers. The secret with Facebook Pages is to make sure the content you publish is valuable – not just interesting. It’s a great way of staying front of mind with your customer base.
Top .tel Tip: Why not ask questions to boost the amount of feedback you receive?

Step 2: Tweet all about it!

A massive 60% of Twitter users are on mobile and your Twitter profile is a great place to share breaking news, local updates and good conversations with your mobile customers.
If you want people to retweet your content, you need to leave room for your audience to have their say. This means creating Tweets with about 100 characters, as opposed to the maximum 140, enabling someone else add to a comment when they share your original message.

Top .tel Tip: Why not follow your brand’s biggest advocates? You can discover what else they may be interested in as well acknowledging their custom and showing interest. 

Step 3: Get seen on Instagram

Easily integrated into Facebook and Twitter, Instagram is one of the most popular mobile apps and is a great way to give your more visual products and services a greater impact.
The key to success on Instagram is high quality pictures. The better the quality the more attention you’ll get. Describe the picture in the description, creating hashtags from keywords. Encourage your followers to use a particular hashtag that you can monitor – or even use for a promotion.
Publishing to Instagram includes the option to publish to other platforms like Facebook and Twitter, making your job easier and enabling your content to be more widely seen.
Top .tel Tip: As well as using photos taken with your phone, you can upload images taken and editing via other devices. 

Step 4: Bring it .tel together

Visitors to your Telnames mobile optimised website can instantly access your social media profiles  via instant click-to-visit links. Once there they can sign up, become a follower and stay up to date with all your news and hot promotions.
A handy ‘Social Sharing’ button makes it easy for visitors to your .tel mobile website to conveniently share your web address on their own Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts, as well as by email.
With more and more people engaging with social applications from their phone while on the move, you should be using mobile to connect with your customers and extend your reach.
Your .tel mobile website makes it even easier to harness the power of social marketing and boost visibility of your brand with customers old and new!

Telnames Launches Innovative Publishing Platform for its wholesale channel with jBilling

Telnames

Company

Telnames

Industry

Limited Liability

Challenge

• Find a billing solution with a customizable user interface
• Accommodate specific billing requirements
• Find a scalable billing system that can handle company growth.

Solution

• jBilling 3

Results

• A billing solution that is aligned with company functional requirements
• A billing solution that allows for scalability as business grows
• Development of a flexible and user friendly interface

Telnames Launches Innovative Publishing Platform for its wholesale channel with jBilling

Based in London, United Kingdom, Telnames provides professionals and businesses with a simple, low-cost service to help with online discovery and promotion. Using the award-winning .tel domain, they provide customers with a simple and effective online presence that they can own and update.

Challenge

Telnames needed a billing engine to support the roll out of its services to the wholesale channel. As with any e-commerce based solution, a billing system was a critical requirement. “We were starting from scratch,” says Gareth Jehu, Telnames’s Operations Director. “Our challenge was to find a billing product where the customization and on-going maintenance cost was minimal.”
Finding the most cost effective billing solution wasn’t Telnames’s only problem. “We had a very specific process we wanted to follow,” Jehu says. “We were open to a lot of billing systems, as long as they were flexible enough to allow for customization to fit within that process.”

“We wanted to minimize the amount of customization work, which meant that we needed an off the shelf billing system that was a good match for our ‘specific functional requirements. In this regard, jBilling proved to be the best fit.”

Telnames needed a solution that could easily handle its different billing scenarios. “We needed to be able to bill customers in multiple currencies, produce consolidated invoices and transaction statements and handle multiple VAT scenarios,” says Jehu.
That wasn’t all Telnames was looking for. “We needed API integration with our own product provisioning system. We had to be able to set low watermark thresholds, and lock accounts if credit levels dropped below a certain amount,” Jehu continues. “Invoices needed to be produced in hard and soft copy, we needed to be able to private label, and export to a third party accounting system.”
With this long list of requirements in mind, Telnames began an in depth search to find the billing solution that was best suited to its unique needs.

Solution

After investigating many billing solutions, Telnames selected jBilling, an enterprise, open source billing solution that could be easily customized.
As Jehu points out, “jBilling’s extensibility allowed us to alter the user interface in a way that was specific to our requirements. For example, we changed the navigation tabs so that we have a ‘Renewals’ tab, which gives a wholesale provider a list of domain names and renewal dates,” he says. “We also added a notification at the top of the screen so that a customer always knows their current balance.”
Telnames took advantage of many features that jBilling offers straight out of the box. “There was no need to create and integrate with a separate portal,” Jehu says. “jBilling gave us the ability to allow the customer to login to our customized user interface. By using different permissions, we could also dictate what the customer could see and do in the system.”

“jBilling allowed us to create the wholesale system we wanted. From an end-user perspective, we were able to customize the customer’s view of jBilling so that they only see what they need to see.”

When it came to their specific requirements, Telnames once again used features that jBilling already offered. “We used jBilling’s pre-paid functionality to make sure that a customer’s account is in credit, in order for them to process billable transactions,” Jehu says. “If a customer makes a deposit of 200 dollars, and that payment is applied to their account, the sales invoice is automatically generated and available for them to download.”

Results

jBilling was easily customizable and had features that matched Telnames’s billing requirements. Due to this fact, Telnames found jBilling to be the perfect solution. “The user interface now matches our requirements,” says Jehu. “If we want to make any changes, we have the flexibility to do so at any time. As our company grows, the added benefit is that our billing solution is completely scalable.”

“jBilling’s team has a very good at understanding our requirements and recommending the best way to approach and deliver those requirements. I don’t think that we have ever come across something that we can’t do.”

Aside from being flexible and scalable, jBilling proved to be the best fit for what was needed in other ways as well. “We didn’t want to invest heavily in an enterprise billing engine. It would have been overkill for the stage of evolution that the business is at,” says Jehu. “Using jBilling, we managed to create the working model we wanted without carrying any massive overhead cost.”




“The bottom line was that we needed a billing system that could control all the finances associated with the sale of the product and the customer’s compounds. jBilling not only gave us the flexibility to achieve this goal, but also provided us with the features that we required, in a way that met our requirements and budget.”

Directorio http://www.thomsonlocal.com/

New Telnames Value Added Reseller registered about 400 .tels

The British directory www.thomsonlocal.com registered about 400 Telnames yesterday.

The websites are still empty, as example:

www.cherishedpetproducts.tel
www.clarkhowes.tel
www.click4acab.tel

How-To Guide: Get Liked to Get Noticed

Your .tel name makes it easy to get ‘liked’, get noticed and get shared. All of which helps boost your visibility in local search.
There’s been lots of discussion lately about how social media can help generate more traffic to your site. The good news is a .tel name mobile friendly website makes it easy for visitors to publicly share links to your site; enabling your content to be seen by a wider audience and generating more opportunities for links to be shared.
.Tel.us: What’s the challenge?
Encouraging satisfied customers to promote your .tel mobile website is a great way of generating invaluable free publicity among their contacts.
Exposure is a key way to growing a small business. And we all know that social media is great for creating a buzz around your business and brand.
But social media can also help you improve your positioning in search engines, thanks to links. They’re a great way to spread the word about what you do, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing and advertising.
.Tel us: Practical steps and top tips
It’s the age of social media in which sharing content has become the norm. So, if you don’t have social sharing buttons on your mobile website, then you should think again.
Basic share buttons like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest allow visitors to share your content with their friends and colleagues, extending the word to a wider audience. And you don’t even have to lift a finger.
The aim of the game is to put your online profiles and social platforms to work and social media buttons make it easy for visitors to Like, Share and Recommend you to their social networks and contacts. The more your content is shared, the more backlinks you’ll generate, and the higher your search rankings will be.
The good news is that every .tel name has link buttons that make it easy to share your site with family, friends, customers or business partners.
.Tel us: The benefits
A visitor to your .tel name can share it in one of four ways.

1. The Facebook ‘Like’ button shares a link to your .tel name with all your visitor’s Facebook friends.
2. The Twitter button allows visitors to tweet links to your .tel to all their followers on Twitter. The default message is “Please check out [yourname.tel]” but this can be modified by the person making the tweet.
3. The mail button opens a new email so that a visitor can email their contacts a link to your .tel name. By default, the email title is your .tel name.
4. The Google+ ‘+1’ button shares a link to your .tel name with selected circles in your visitor’s Google+ profile.

You can ask customers to promote your page in a variety of ways with posts on social media, or by email– such as in the footer of an order confirmation – or through word of mouth. Just one tweet could mean your .tel name could get seen by thousands of people, so start getting noticed on social networks today.

Name.com newsletter from yesterday:

Name.com newsletter from yesterday:



Since you currently have a .TEL domain name, we wanted to share some cool new information about the .TEL extension.

• As of today, 8-digit (or longer), all-numerical .TEL domain names are available for registration on a first-come, first-serve basis.
• What's this mean? You can now register your full phone number as a domain name, such as 1234567890.tel.
• It's a great way to brand your phone number as your online business card, create a domain name for your customer support line, or get your phone number indexed by search engines.

Register a new .TEL for $9.99.

Finally the missing indirect recognition from the telecommunication world towards TEL capability ?

Best positive buzz ever towards all -numeric dot TEL usecases ignited by ... ITU a few days ago !!!

Finally the missing indirect recognition from the telecommunication world towards TEL capability ?

A special cum laude mention indirectly awarded by ITU to :
- shortcodes ( also shortcodes directories ?)
- national phone numbers  ( also national or regional phone directories ? )
- international phone numbers in ITU-T E.164 format

ITU letter to ICANN, Geneva 11 October 2013 wrote:
.../...
ITU must express its concern about TELNIC’s recent announcement launching an “all numeric .tel domains” service from 15 October 2013. This raises a number of policy, legal, and practical implications on the potential usage of all-digit strings, not only under .TEL domain, but also under any future telephony-related new gTLDs
… /...

We are seeking this clarification as the digit strings appear similar to telephone numbers and could be used in a manner similar to telephone numbers, which may confuse customers or cause undue conflicts arising from their use.

Full text here : http://domainincite.com/docs/TSB-Director-Letter-to-ICANN-CEO-2013-10-11.pdf

Already an output of mature convergence between Internet and Telecommunication ?

Interesting times, although not many all-numeric DN registered today over TEL on first day , which would certainly please ITU as of date ...

Until next steps , for example when some Google or other OTTs put their hands onto services fom phone number registration over dot TEL , or IMEI over dot TEL, for them to explore further initally walled gardens ?

Telecommunication Standardization

Bureau

Geneva,

1

1

October

2013

Ref:

2013

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10

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387

Mr Fadi Chehadé

Pr

esident & CEO of ICANN

Email:

fadi.chehade@icann.org

cc.

:

Mr

Sherif

Guinena

ITU

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T

SG2 Cha

irman

Email:

dr.guinena@ntra.gov.eg

Mr Khashayar Mahdavi

TELNIC CEO

Email:

kmahdavi@telnic.org

Telephone:

+41 22 730 5852

Telefax:

+41 22 730 5853

E

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mail

:

tsbdir@itu.int

Dear Mr Chehadé,

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) would welcome ICANN’s assistance to clarify

some issues raised by

the TELNIC announcement

1

that users can register digit strings in the

“.TEL” domain that appear to be of similar length and format as international telephone

numbers.

Since ITU first expressed concerns about the TLDs in our letter to ICANN in Nov

ember 2000, we

have recognized that both ICANN and TELNIC made some efforts to restrict all

-

digit strings as

sub

-

names under the .TEL domain, by allowing the sub

-

names only with “text

-

based” or “non

-

numeric” names, in order to avoid conflict with national

or international telephone numbering

plans. In particular, TELNIC’s application for .TEL domain of March 2004 clearly stated that “[t]he

.Tel will not [a]llow numeric

-

only domain to be registered, and therefore will not conflict with

any national or intern

ational telephone numbering plan” (

New sTLD RFP Application, .tel

-

Telnic,

Part B. Application Form

).

In light of this

, ITU

must

express its concern about TELNIC’s recent ann

ouncement launching an

“all numeric .tel domains” service from 15 October 2013

. This raises a number of

policy, legal,

and practical implications

on

the

potential usage of all

-

digit strings, not only under .TEL domain

,

but also under any future telephony

-

r

elated new gTLDs

,

because of the

possibl

e

perceived

mapping of the ITU

-

T E.164 numbering plan into the Domain Name System (DNS), without

appropriate procedures to ensure that rights of assignees of

Recommendation

ITU

-

T E.164

numbers are properly protected.

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http://www.telnic.org/downloads/LongNumeri

csRelease.pdf

More images now available with Pro Tel

More images now available with Pro Tel

Telnic have just increased the number of images that can be added to a Pro Tel site as follows:-


1. An increase in the number of allowed images ads in the desktop TelProxy from
current:

a. Top – Increases from 2 to 6

b. Right - Increases from 5 to 6

c. Bottom – Increases from 5 to 6

2. An Increase in the maximum dimension on smartphone image ads from the current 300x150px to a more standard 4:3 ratio of 300x225px. This will have no effect on images currently being used as smartphone image ads (unless the actual dimensions are 4:3 in which case they will be displayed in more appropriate dimensions)

Great News.
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Start making your  Image Galleries now!!  I'm testing mine at http://pictures.groups.u3a.lostwithiel.tel/

Mobile-friendly website leader Telnames launches value-added service to help small businesses get listed online

Telnames new local listings service allows customers to “create once and publish everywhere” with free and automatic online directory submission for UK businesses

London, United Kingdom, October 10, 2013. – Telnames (http://www.telnames.com), a leader in self-service mobile-friendly websites for local businesses, today announces an extension to its popular website creation service with the launch of a convenient local search listings management service. The new service addition means that Telnames customers can now benefit from automatic submission of their core business listings details to participating online directories, local search engines and business listings publishers. The service increases visibility and generates sales leads, relevant local searches, and allows prospective customers to easily make contact.
This new additional service is being provided to all Telnames UK business customers free of charge. When businesses sign up for a Telnames .tel mobile website, Telnames will now distribute the business contact information along with their .tel site URL across a network of significant local search publisher partners including Bing, Yahoo!, BT, Scoot, 118118.com, 192.com, Local Mole and many others. This new service means that Telnames customers can avoid the time and hassle involved with making contact with each local directory themselves to get listed and visible in local search. All that is required is to set up an initial Telnames .tel for their business, which only takes minutes. All the relevant data that online directories need is captured during the sign-up process and Telnames then provides this information automatically to members of its partner network of directories and local search engines at no extra charge. The Telnames Partner Network is constantly expanding as more and more partners come on board.
Previously, companies have had to create their own website, optimise it for mobile devices, and then submit it to the directories themselves. Many businesses have found this process time consuming and a hassle so they have simply not bothered with it. Consequently, their businesses are not being fully listed or appear without important website content putting them at a disadvantage in the UK local search web.
Telnames’ Chief Marketing Officer Ian Bowen-Morris comments: “This new additional service is a huge help to our small business customers. When they sign up to Telnames not only do they benefit from having an easy to use single page website designed with mobile users in mind, they also now benefit from inclusion in our new listings management service. The service helps them get visibility and generate sales leads by automatically distributing their core contact information and .tel URL across a range of popular local search sites that publish after verification.” He adds: “Using local directories has always been a key marketing tool for businesses, but what Telnames is delivering is a totally unique package – an effective website presence that displays their business effectively to people searching on all devices at home or on the move as well as visibility across the local search web at no extra cost. The difference is simplicity delivered at superb value for money.”
The Telnames local listings service is included within a customer’s annual Telnames subscription. Businesses don’t need to take any further action to benefit, all that is needed is a .tel name that is well -populated and ready for customers to visit and make contact.
For more information please visit: http://www.telnames.com/telnames-partner-network/.
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About Telnames: http://www.telnames.tel
Telnames is a leader in self-service mobile-ready website creation. Telnames allows professionals and businesses of all sizes to get online and “go mobile in minutes”.
Press contacts:
Telnames
Nicky Denovan
EvokedSet PR
telnames [at] evokedset [dot] com
Phone: +44 7747 017654