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Guest Post: Dennis Yu
This is a guest post written by Dennis Yu.
Google Voice
Later today, Google is releasing a free voice service that ties all your numbers together, has free domestic calling and discounted international calling, voicemail transcription, phone routing, call forwarding, conference calling, call recording, and more. You get one phone number to control all your phones. Make all your phones ring at once or just one phone. If it's someone you don't like, you can even play them a wrong number message or opt to send them to voicemail, which you can listen in on as they're talking.
In exchange for this free service, you must trust Google with your data. Most of us already are run our businesses on Google products-- Gmail, Adwords, Analytics, Calendar, Chat, Local Business Center, Maps, and so forth. Soon, Google Wave will tie these services together. Watch this 80 minute demo that will blow your mind if you haven't already seen it. Are you worried yet?
As an affiliate, you can use Google voice to do local lead gen. In other words, if you're selling voice leads to insurance companies, cosmetic surgeons, roofers, or other professional services, you can get your free number and have it route to the client's regular number. The call tracking will allow you to measure how many calls you generated from your campaigns, plus even listen in. No need to build your own Asterisk server and rent local phone numbers from icall or whatever service you use-- it's now "free".
Just use AdWords to drive the traffic, Analytics to measure it, and Google Voice to handle the calls. Local lead gen in a box. That's going to put a lot of software companies out of business. But at the same time, the barrier to entry to do local lead gen has never been lower. The yellow pages are going out of business slowly, and it's time for affiliates to jump in for the kill. If you missed the panel on local lead gen at Affiliate Convention-- and all of the panelists in the final super session agreed that local and social were the next big thing, ping me for the slides.
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This has gotta be the best service that Google has provided. Will definitely try should I ever get an invite. Anybody already tried this invite-only program?
Sounds very interesting
I am already using this service when it used to be grand central. Google Voice has surely made some nice change for me.
Vijay
Very cool!
Hey Jonathan, do you think you could send me those slides from Affiliate Convention? I’m in a non competing area and would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
that is awesome Jonathan
Google has done it again! Definitely look forward to trying this out.
This is exciting!
Google: still on track to own the Universe.
That is something new for me. Sounds pretty exciting!
Yeah, another new tool from Google! Always like google product, unfortunately can’t 100% switch over. I have been a yahoo email user long before gmail comes out. Hard to notice everyone about the email change. And yahoo doesn’t let you set the email account in google for free. You have to have yahoo plus email account in order to do that,
Jayme
Pacific Timesheet
It does seem great tool from google and it has given the best service this time. I would like to use it.
Sounds like a very valuable service. For online businesses tracking your phone calls is very important. In a previous job they were paying $10K a month for this kind of service.