Your Questions About Internet Business Phone Service

Jere answers:

Cost is $20/year

its limitations are that it does not support fax, data, alarm systems, satellite boxes, and anything else that needs to connect to a dial tone to send data…

It requires your PC to be on and connected to broadband internet to work

your internet speed, ping, jitter, latency and resources of the PC that it is connected to will all effect the call quality – for the best reliability, you should not run other programs while using the MJ – or connect it to a dedicated PC…

They are able to make money and stay in business because
1- they provide ads on the softphone on your PC (that is why even though they use SIP it is against the TOS to use the service with a different SIP device)
2- they get paid from other phone companies when they terminate calls to magic jack users..
3- they make money from international calls..

Jere answers:

Because it’s a standard question to make certain the person you are entering into contract with is of legal age.

Hell if you want to log into the Guinness website they ask you that.

Jere answers:

I couldn’t find ISI either. So here’s a few things that you should take a look at before getting involved in any company.
1. How long have they been in business? We checked to see how long our company was around, at the time it was nine years old and now it’s 15. Do you know when they started?
2. Are they registered with the BBB. Ours is registered. I think this is important one.
3. Who’s involved with the company? Like in ours Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki has endorsed our company. Check to see if anyone has endorsed this company. Also, meet with the co-founders. We’ve personally met our co-founders and found from our first meeting that they were incredible people with incredible visions. See if their’s a time where you can meet them. If your going to be doing business, there should be a time where you should have the chance to meet with them.
4. What is the compensation plan now, and what was it like before.
See the history of the comp plan and see if increases and never decreases in it’s history. We checked with the records in our business and found that in over the years, the compensation plan had only gotten better each year. As long as we’ve been involved, we’ve now witnessed the compensation plan always increasing. Check the history on yours.
5.Have they been featured in magazine’s? For instance our company has been featured in several magazines Like Success, Fortune, USA Today etc. Check to see if they have. You can get a lot of information on the company by reading about them.
6. Has Inc 500 rated them? This magazine or slit rated our company the 22nd fastest growing company in revenue in it’s first 5 years. Inc 500 shows the top 500 businesses in revenue growth. Check to see what Inc 500 rated the company your looking at.
7. Do they have a physical address that you can go to? Check for an address not just a P.O. Box
8. Where are their headquarters? Our world headquarters is in Farmington Hills Michigan, Personally been there, (If your here in the states) Other headquarters in different countries. And US headquarters in Charlotte.
9. What does the start up cost take care of? In my business headquarters takes care of all the billing for my customers, Inventory, Customer services, Order Entry, Employees, workman’s comp, Cross referencing, Licensing, Insurance, paperwork, accounts payables, accounts receivables etc.
10. What is the product and service you would be selling.
Is the product and service in high demand? For instance we offer services that people are already using every day and paying for anyway, but at a lower cost. Things like Local and Long distance telephone services, Internet, video phones, digital phones, cellular phones through all the major cellular providers. We make a percentage every single month they pay their bills. Everyone uses them and everyone pays for them. When money gets tight, would they keep your service or be able to run to the store and be able to purchase them on sale? Leaving you to have to wait until they run out of what they just purchased, or wait until their finances get settled? This is what I mean by high demand.
11. Is their any type of training available if you don’t know the industry??
So many different things to check out in making sure a business is a good one to get involved in. If the business feels right to you, and all questions are answered with proof, then I’d say jump in. Running a business is different then a job though. You have to treat it like it’s your child and not just something your going to “try” you have to believe in the product and service and go at it full force. This is your future your talking about, no one else’s.
I hope my examples of what we looking into with our business helps you be able to find the same answers in your business. Forget about asking the common question and asking someone how much they make in their business to determine if you’d get involved in ISI or not. In a business, it doesn’t matter what one business is making over another. It only matters what you do in “YOUR” business. I hate it when people ask me how much I make. Because they’re not going to walk into and start up their business making what I make. I’ve been involved with my business for over six years. So yeah, I will make more. If you tell someone how much you make, then it’s a psychological thing that they expect to make that amount in a week, and that is just not going to happen. Six years of building a business verses 1 day. So don’t even ask. Look at the possibilities for YOURSELF.
Hope this helps!
Tiffany

Jere answers:

No in fact when they install the fiber optic from the pole to their ONT they usually cut out the old copper drop wires…

The ONT will provide you with several analog ports for telephone lines that can connect to existing jacks in your house or UTP can be run to install new jacks inside your home..

The television service will connect with your existing, or new RG6 wiring..

I always prefer to have my customers internet connected directly to the ONT with CAT5 or CAT6 cable, and bridge my own modem… But they will usually just bring a modem into your home with RG6 (probably your existing RG6) I have heard that some of the interactive TV features wont work if you don’t have the sh*tty actiontec modem they provide connected with the RG6, but i wouldn’t know they never wired my block, and all my customers are business customers with no TV service..

Jere answers:

I have been told that you can ship via USPS Priority (domestic rules), using Flat-Rate boxes. The outer islands do not have internet and cell phone service, but Majuro has (at least internet) in some places.