Start Your Own Calling Card Business
Firstly you need to set up your own infrastructure for your prepaid calling card system to run on. With a solid infrastructure, you will able to spend most of the time on marketing your product. As billing software is the essence of the calling cards business - choosing a reliable billing software is the main step in starting your business. MOR Billing is powerful and effective, yet simple and easy to use ò€“ that"s why it is so popular among startups. MOR Billing is all-in-one solution with integrated pre-paid, post-paid and flat fee accounting that also gives you complete control over your calling cards, including PIN generation, usage fees, expiration dates, and much more. MOR Billing is a vital component for developing an infrastructure for your successful VoIP business. In order to use a billing software you need a server for it to run on. It is recommended to choose a CPU Quad Xeon, 4 Gb RAM with HDD as fast as possible.Secondly you will need phone services and internet services which is the backbone of your calling card network. While choosing right internet services you should ask your Internet provider what kind of redundancy is available in case their service goes down . If your Internet provider does not have a fail-over plan, you may want to consider selecting a second Internet service as a backup.
The third step is choosing the a long distance provider. It is usually best to select multiple carriers - to have an A-Z long distance provider that can send your calls to anywhere in the world and also a regional long distance provider that focuses only on the region of the world that you are targeting in order to get cheaper tariffs in this region. Furthermore you will need to find a DID provider. It is your choice how to look for providers but I suggest to visit http://www.voip-info.org ò€“ it is a great source of various long distance and DID providers and I am sure you will find the one that fits for you. But keep in mind that price is not the only criteria ò€“ you should also consider quality, reliability, and capacity.
Now you have set up an infrastructure, chosen long distance and DID providers so the only thing left is to start marketing your products. As making tariffs is one of the main parts of marketing, you should consider different fees to increase your revenue. There are such additional fees as activation fee, connection fee, maintenance fee and billing increments that can make you one step ahead of your competitors. After you have made your tariffs you can choose two different types of marketing ò€“ let"s name them physical and virtual. Physical marketing is selling through retail stores. You will need to print your calling cards and distribute them among retail shops. By virtual marketing I mean e-commerce. You will need to create your own website to sell your calling cards online. There are hundreds of ways how to market your products via internet ò€“ affiliate marketing, banner ads, google adwords or other PPC advertising, social networking, press releases, email marketing, search engine optimisation and etc.
I hope this article was beneficial for you and you got the main idea how to begin a calling card business. As Kolmisoft specialize in developing Calling Card systems we are here to help you anytime. So if you decide to set up a calling card business please visit our website http://www.kolmisoft.com or write us to b2bsales@kolmisoft.com.