A business phone number from Phone Friday makes your business sound more legitimate. Let us use your story and picture.
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With customizable phone trees, and answering calls promptly 24x7, even when you are not available, Phone Friday makes a professional impression. Let us use your story and picture.
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The Affiliate Program is cool. It doesn't cost anything to get started collecting monthly commissions. Let us use your story and picture.
Replace Land Line
We replaced our old Land Line with a number from Phone Friday. We kept our old number so nobody had to update their their records, and we're saving about $15/month. It's still our loyalty number at grocery stores, it allows us to keep our private cell-phone numbers private, and one number works for the whole family.
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NOTE: Your email address will only be used to assist in administering your own business phone number(s). It will not be made available to anyone else.
Here is a table showing our roadmap for current, planned, and possible features. You can influence the timing and capabilities in this roadmap. To do so, please send your suggestions in an email to support@phonefriday.com.
Current Included Features
Planned Enhancements
Possible Future Features
Inbound Calls:
One public number selected from available numbers (port an existing number upon request & as available)
Computer-generated Male or Female voice
Web-based self-configuration of business phone number
Any business number can include a Phone Tree
Outbound Calls:
Not supported
Billing:
Customer has a pool/balance from which monthly payment is taken
Payment via Stripe
Email notification when balance gets low
$10.00/mo per branch, plus approximately 2¢/min connect time
SMS/MMS Texting:
All text messagesd are forwarded to a single email address
Infrastructure:
Single Hosted Serrvice with regionally disbursed data centers (Fast Comet)
Inbound Calls:
Port an existing number upon request
Recorded voices instead of computer voices
Leave messages
Outbound Calls:
Customer calls service, enters Callee number, hangs up, service calls both parties and connects them
Billing:
Occasional special deals and special discounts
Alternate plans for medium businesses, small businesses, and residential
Infrastructure:
Two hosted services: Fast Comet & Someone else
Partnership for improved business continuity
Inbound Calls:
Celebrity voices instead of computer voices
Phone Friday App allows inbound calls only from Phone Friday; all others get forwarded to Phone Friday. Note: this would mean it’s no longer necessary to keep private numbers a secret, because all non-whitelisted inbound calls go through Phone Friday.
Integrate with CRM to display caller information from CRM DB before a call gets answered. This probably requires a Phone Friday App
Outbound Calls:
Smart phone App to make outbound calls
Billing:
Payment via PayPal, Stripe, and/or Square
Payment via ACH (Automated Clearing House bank transfer)
SMS/MMS:
Remember To and From on out-going texts; inbound messages from the remembered To get forwarded to the most recent remembered From. Other messages get sent to a single email
Other Ideas to Explore:
Franchise based on area code
Become a Mint reseller; ability to provide complete phone systems
SIP carrier (for software phone on computer)
Video calls
Scheduling/Appointment System to Google Calendar and/or Calendly (then perhaps synch to other systems?)
Your Business Number from Phone Friday may be for an individual, or you might have a larger company with several employees and/or departments using a single Business Number. In this latter case, you'll want to set up a Phone Tree to easily route your customers to the correct department or individual. These concepts are illustrated with the following examples:
Individual Plan $10.00/month (plus 2¢ per minute)
Small Business Plan $10.00/month (plus 2¢ per minute)
Medium Business Plan $10.00/month for each branch (plus 2¢ per minute)
An Individual account is for very small businesses (or even private individuals), such as a contractor who may use their cell phone for both business and personal purposes.
Pricing for an Individual account is $XbranchCostX/month, plus approximately 2¢/minute for calls processed by Phone Friday.
A Small Business account allows multiple employees to be reached behind a single business telephone number. The caller is prompted to enter the extension of the person with whom they wish to speak.
A small business is represented as a tree with a single "branch" at the top, and a "leaf" for each person in the phone tree.
Pricing for a Small Business account is $XbranchCostX/month, plus approximately 2¢/minute for calls processed by Phone Friday.
This can work nicely for home-use too; callers call the home number, and then enter the extension of the family member with whom they wish to speak.
A Medium Business account allows larger companies (e.g., companies that may have one or more levels of departments) to represent their whole company in a phone tree.
A medium business is represented as a tree with a single "branch" at the top, additional branches to represent departments, and a "leaf" for each person in the phone tree.
Pricing for a Medium Business account is $XbranchCostX/month for each branch, plus approximately 2¢ per minute.
Note: the example image contains 3 branches, so the monthly fee would be $XbranchCostTimes3X/month plus approximately 2¢/minute for calls processed by Phone Friday
Want to get your Phone Friday business number for free?
You can invite others to sign-up with Phone Friday. Whenever one of your friends or business associates signs up (after clicking a link that you send them, or a button on your social media page), you will earn $4.00 credit toward your Phone Friday account. If you invite just 3 new customers each month, that could more than pay for an Individual or Small Business account, or partially pay for a larger account. Find more details by reading about our Affiliate Program.
Phone Friday's Affiliate Program allows Partners to prosper as Phone Friday prospers
Normal Phone Friday prices: $10.00/month, plus approximately 2¢/connectedMinute Note: In the case of more complex phone trees, the price is $10.00/month/branch.
Referrer:
Anyone with a PF account can be a "referrer".
The Referrer of a new customer gets $4.00 (one time) credited to their PF account. There is no "cash out" capability; this credit is only good toward PF services. Somebody who refers just 3 new customers/month could more than pay for their Individual or Small Business account, or partially pay for a larger account.
The customer's Referrer information is retained, so a Referrer's aggregation of customers can grow forever. If that Referrer later decides to become a full Partner, all customers previously in that Referrer's aggregation will continue in that new Partner's aggregation, and will result in monthly commissions for the Partner.
Partner:
PF Partners must be approved by PF; additional information must be maintained for each:
Threshold amount to leave in their account; each month, any amount over this value gets transferred to the Partner's bank account.
Partner's bank account Information to enable ACH transfers into their account.
Partners earn $4.00/month for each active (paying) customer in the Partner's aggregation. New customer acquired any time in the previous 30 days are considered an active customers.
If a customer has a more complex phone tree with multiple branches (e.g., each department and/or sub-department might be represented as a branch), the referring Partner earns $4.00/month for each branch.
Partners DO NOT earn a separate $4.00 Referrer fee (this is replaced by Partner compensation).
Although becoming a PF Partner is free, Partners must renew the partnership each year at a cost of $10.00. This is intended to terminate inactive partnerships (e.g., deceased partners).
If a Partner loses their partnership, their aggregation of customers gets deleted. They can then start to re-build their aggregation as a standard Referrer. They may also re-apply to again become a PF Partner.
Phone Friday will provide a link (e.g., https://phonefriday.com?affiliate=nnnnnnnnnn) where a Referrer or Partner can include their PF-registered number.
Referrers/Partners can include this link on their websites, email campaigns, or other marketing material. Clicking this link brings a user to Phone Friday's purchase site with Affiliate pre-populated.
Phone Friday wants to help you succeed. We provide the following ways to get support:
Via email to support@phonefriday.com. * Available beginning in March 2024.
Via telephone at 425-585-2121, extension for Support. While you can leave a message any time, Support professionals will be available during normal business hours (M-F 8:00am to 4:00pm Pacific time). * Available beginning in March 2024.
Via our public Discord server at this link. While you can leave a message any time, Support professionals will be available to respond to your messages during normal business hours (M-F 8:00am to 4:00pm Pacific time). * Available beginning several months after March 2024.
Via an on-line meeting (e.g., Zoom or Google Meet?) that will run during normal business hours (M-F 8:00am to 4:00pm Pacific time). * Available beginning several months after March 2024.
The Phone Friday concept was prototyped for a couple years. Thereafter, nearly a year went into software development. It was slow, but the Lord blessed my efforts day-by-day.
I had hoped to turn on Phone Friday as a production service in April (2024). However:
January: Discovered a lump
February: Biopsy confirmed cancer
March: Surgery Pathology Lab says no chemo needed - Yippee!
April & May: Radiation
June: Celebrate
July: Everything went great! Now, back to work.
?: Production Release
Hopefully, after treatment I'll still have use of most of my faculties. If so, I'm confident the Lord will continue to bless my efforts day-by-day, and Phone Friday will be released with just a few months delay.
Please check back occasionally to see how it's coming along.