GLOBALINX Ordering Process and LNP Enhancements

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In our ongoing effort to put representatives first and keep the lines of communication open, we would like to make you aware of some upcoming enhancements to the GLOBALINX order process.

On May 5, 2008 GLOBALINX will release the first significant enhancement to the online ordering process.  This enhancement will streamline both the ordering and number porting processes.  This change will allow a customer to submit their number transfer request online at the end of the order process.  This will serve to greatly reduce the number of porting issues, timeframe for number transfer and additional actions required by customer desiring to transfer their number.   These changes should result in a much better customer experience and thus a happier and healthier customer relationship.

Also, as of May 1, 2008, 5LINX and GLOBALINX will no longer accept faxed or mailed orders for GLOBALINX service.  This change will assist in not only the efficiency of the order process, but also ensure the accuracy of all customer data in the GLOBALINX database.  This change should have a relatively low impact on most representatives, as the majority of GLOBALINX service orders are already processed online.

If you have any questions regarding these changes, please do not hesitate to contact Representative Services

National Training Event Promotion Ending Soon!

Double Points on ALL National Registrations!!

April 19th - 30th ONLY!

All representatives that register for the next 5LINX National Training Event in San Antonio between April 19 and April 30, 2008 will be awarded two (2) customer points per registration.

Don’t wait!! This promotion and the discounted registration cost of $139.95 ends on April 30, 2008. As of May 1, the registration cost will increase to $149.95.

Each representative will be awarded points for a maximum of two (2) tickets purchased (representative + guest/spouse) for the San Antonio Event. Should more than two (2) tickets be purchased for the San Antonio Event under the same representative, only the first two (2) will be awarded customer points.

LINX2Health Medical Savings Card Update

In our ongoing efforts to put the representatives first and keep the lines of communication clear and open, we would like to announce the following product line changes.  Effective May 1, 2008, we will no longer accept new enrollments into the LINX2Health Medical Savings Card program.   This is due to increased costs to effectively maintain the medical savings card program.

5LINX understands the importance of maintaining your current customer base, and as such:

1. We will support any customers currently enrolled in the Medical Savings Card service.

2. 5LINX will also honor all customer points and continue paying commissions on all active LINX2Health customers as long as they remain on the service.

Rest assured that all LINX2Health Medical Savings Cards previously purchased will be unaffected and will be honored. However, we will no longer accept new orders starting May 1, 2008.

5LINX is determined to continue to place the representative first and create the best value for our representative, vendors and partners.  Keeping in line with the 5LINX company vision, this change will allow us to focus our resources on our core technological products and services.

For further questions or concerns, please contact Representative Services

Today is the last day for you to receive double customer points for your cellular customers.  This promotion will not be extended so maximize its potential while it lasts.  Your personal website is full of the best pricing available on all of the most popular phones in the market today.  We have far more free phones than any local store so help save your friends and family money by allowing them to support your 5LINX business.  Let’s finish this record setting month strong and get yourself promoted at the National Event in San Antonio in May.  If you have any questions please contact Wireless Services.

T-Mobile Phone Blowout!

5LINX Wireless is proud to announce the largest T-Mobile promotion in company history!  We’ve dropped the prices on additional phones to create even more excitement around the growth of your business.  Remember, you’re going to receive double points for all wireless customers from March 5^th through March 31^st.  These promotions are sure to create more momentum in your 5LINX business than any other wireless promotion we’ve ever ran.  Here are a few of the brand new phone specials:

Samsung T639 w/ myFaves- Now FREE and you make $75 after mail in rebate

Samsung Blast – Now FREE with Free Bluetooth headset

BlackBerry Pearl 8100 with myFaves- Now FREE and you make $50 after mail in rebate

Motorola Razr V3 with myFaves- Now FREE with Free Bluetooth headset

Nokia 5300- Now FREE with Free Bluetooth headset

These are the best prices available anywhere.  Get your new cell phone now and be sure to tell everyone about the unbeatable savings you can offer through your 5LINX business

Thursday February 21, 2008 Training Conference Calls

In our ongoing efforts at 5LINX Corporate to help all of our representatives in achieving their maximum potential we have two very informative training calls planned for Thursday night.

The first call we will be holding will be a basic product training call at 8:30pm (EST), this call will be focused on the 5LINX Home Security products and services.  We will be discussing all of the products, their features and how to sign up customers.  We will also be very fortunate to have Protect America Director of Marketing and Business Jeff Butler and 5LINX Director of Wireless Services Jason Craw as a guest speakers on Thursday’s call.  This is a call you do not want to miss!

The second call we will be holding will be a New Representative Welcome Call at 9:30pm (EST).  This new representative welcome call will focus on:

5LINX and the Direct Sales Industry
Getting Started - Your First 30 Days
Compensation Plan
Training Program - Local, Regional and National
Where to find product information and training resources
Introduction to 5LINX products and services - being a customer of our products and services

-Utilizing your 5LINX Virtual Office, including:
-5LINX Reports
-Documents Library
-Events Calendar
-Company News
-Important Company Announcements
-5LINX Personal Website (Setup)

Due to the tremendous participation we expect on these calls, the Q & A portion of tonight’s call will utilize Instant Messaging and Email for all questions.  The way this will work is: any representative with a questions will IM or email one of the screen names below.  The question will then be read on the call and answered.

Just a reminder the Product training call begins promptly at 8:30pm (EST).  Please be sure to be on the call at least five minutes prior, so that we can conduct the roll call process in a timely manner.

The phone number and PIN for this call are as follows:
646-519-5800 and 5469#.

We look forward to hearing from all of you on Thursday’s call!!

In our ongoing efforts at 5LINX Corporate to help all of our representatives in achieving their maximum potential we have two very informative training calls planned for Thursday night.

The first call we will be holding will be a basic product training call at 8:30pm (EST), this call will be focused on the 5LINX Wireless products and services.  We will be discussing all of the products, their features and how to sign up customers.  We will also be very fortunate to have 5LINX Director of Wireless Services Mr. Jason Craw as a guest speaker on Thursday’s call.  This is a call you do not want to miss!

The second call we will be holding will be a New Representative Welcome Call at 9:30pm (EST).  This new representative welcome call will focus on:

5LINX and the Direct Sales Industry
Getting Started - Your First 30 Days
Compensation Plan
Training Program - Local, Regional and National
Where to find product information and training resources
Introduction to 5LINX products and services - being a customer of our products and services

-Utilizing your 5LINX Virtual Office, including:
-5LINX Reports
-Documents Library
-Events Calendar
-Company News
-Important Company Announcements
-5LINX Personal Website (Setup)

Due to the tremendous participation we expect on these calls, the Q & A portion of tonight’s call will utilize Instant Messaging and Email for all questions.  The way this will work is: any representative with a questions will IM or email one of the screen names below.  The question will then be read on the call and answered.  This should allow a much smoother process.

Just a reminder the Product training call begins promptly at 8:30pm (EST).  Please be sure to be on the call at least five minutes prior, so that we can conduct the roll call process in a timely manner.

The phone number and PIN for this call are as follows:
646-519-5800 and 5469#.

We look forward to hearing from all of you on Thursday’s call!!

After looking at a cool new application - Trapster - I was directed to Verzion Wireless’s main page to contact them and ask them to add support for the application so that I could use it. When I went to the VZW site I was shocked at what I saw in the title. Was it Verizon Wireless? Nope - instead it looked like a keyword spam filled page that some blackhat seo guru made.

So I decided to do a little bit more work, I opened up AT&T (aka Cingular), T-Mobile and Sprint along side each other.

Here are the headers of each:
Verizon Wireless:

title:Cell Phones, Cell Phone Plans, Cell Phone Accessories - Verizon Wireless

meta name=”Keywords” content=”Verizon, Wireless, Cell, Cell Phone, Mobile, Cellular, Phone, Mobile Phone”
meta name=”description” content=”Verizon Wireless offers cell phones, pdas, devices, cell phone plans, data plans, and accessories with affordable, reliable wireless service for your personal needs.

As you can see - this just looks like a garden variety keyword stuffed title, meta keywords and a meta description that was written by someone who clearly never planned on reading it. Below these meta tags was calls to about 5 .css files and 11 .js files and 2 java script codes. Needless to say - its MESSY!

I was shocked to see that the company name was LAST and not first on a website for a multi billion dollar company.

AT&T:

title: Cell Phones and Cell Phone Plans from AT&T, formerly Cingular Wireless
meta name=”description” content=”Cingular now the new AT&T offers cell phones, cell phone plans and wireless accessories to meet your needs.”
meta name=”keywords” content=”Cell phone, iphone, iPhone, Cell phones, Cell phone plans, Wireless phones, Mobile phones, Free cell phones, AT&T wireless services, AT&T, Cingular Wireless now the new AT&T, Cingular”

Again garden variety spam in the title. The description is definately a lot better than verizons. The keywords I would fine tune a little bit better and I wouldn’t include the phrase “cingular wireless now the new at and t” as a meta keyword. AT&T also included some raw CSS code in the header instead of just making a .css file and calling it - SLOPPY.

T-Mobile:

title: Cell Phones,Cellular Phone Plans,Prepaid Cell Phones,Free Cell Phones & Deals - Stick Together with T-Mobile
meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow, noodp, noydir”
meta name=”description” content=”T-Mobile: Cell phones you love, plans you want. Offering the<br /> best deals on cellular phone service, prepaid cell phones, cell phone accessories, free cell phones & more!”
meta name=”keywords” content=”T-Mobile, T Mobile, tmobile, tmoblie, tmobil t mobil, homepage, tmobile.com, tmoble, cell phones, cell phone accessories, cell phone plans, prepaid cell phones, cellular phones, prepaid cell phone, cell phone deals, free cell phones, cell phone service, free cell phone, cellular phone, cellular phone service”

T-mobile was the only one to put in a meta robots tag and mention specifically to not use the listing in the ODP or the Yahoo Directory. This of course would allow them to change their title and description as they see fit and not what is in ODP or Ydir.

This title I think is the worst. There 4 keyword phrases all include “cell phone” before the name T-Mobile - and they put their slogan before the name. It still looks pretty bad. In the meta description - they didn’t do too bad Reads ok. in the keywords they included a massive 20 keyword phrases. Including “homepage” “tmobile.com” and things like that - this is just silly. 20 meta tag keywords will have you flagged as a spammer in several search engines.

Sprint:

title Welcome to Sprint - Cell Phones, Mobile Phones, Plans for Personal and Business Wireless /title

Sprint wins the cleanest header award - since they just had a title and a few css sheet references and 6 .js calls.

As for the title - they put the brand first and the keywords second - finally you think they aren’t a bunch of seo blackhat spammers.

Mind you these are the corporate web presence for the biggest cellular phone carriers in the United States. All of which have millions of customers and billions of dollars invested in infrastructure. You would think that they would all go ahead and hire someone who knows how to market their sites and not use dirty trickery.

And Now the Results

go to google and type in cell phones. Take a gander at who ranks first?

1. wireless.att.com
2. t-mobile
3. reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/
4. google news results
5. wirefly.com
6. ebay
7. letstalk.com
8. foncentral.com
9. howstuffworks.com page
10. cell-phone-plans.net (an inphonic reseller)
11. pcmag.com page
12. amazon listing
13. walmart.com listing
14. Verizon Wireless - all the way down here.

Guess where Sprint is? Thats right number 37! See what happens when you put your brand first and your keywords second?

A quick search for cell phone no s at the end returned a similar results with att, tmobile and vzw all in the top 4.

A search for cell phone plans - returned

#1 - t-mobile
#6 - VZW
#8 and 9 - ATT - double listing

So what can we take away from all this? If you put your main keywords that you want to rank for first in your title - you will often have a better result in google. But at what cost? You can do this on some pages, but make sure to not kill your brand in the process.

Thats all for now folks

Equipment Migration

GLOBALINX Enhanced Services

Dear Valued 5LINX Representative:

In early January, we began the final phase of the video service upgrades and started the upgrades to the GLOBALINX™ DTA’s. The upgrade to our network is required to allow GLOBALINX™ to provide the best available offering in the marketplace. You are now being offered the opportunity to bring your DTA(s) and or video phone(s) to the National Event in New Orleans to be upgraded to the new enhanced network.

For you convenience, there will be three ways in which you can have your devices migrated.

Bring your device to the event: Technicians will be on site to handle all the details. As an added benefit for attending the National Event the upgrade will be completed without any involvement on your part.

Register at the event to have your device system migrated and be provided step by step instructions on how you may perform the physical migration of your device yourself at your convenience up to seven days after the event.

Make an appointment: While at the event to have a technician contact you after the event to do your migration.

Some of the enhanced services now available to you and your customers through this upgraded network include:

·New – Click to Call from the Web for instant communication

·New – Out of Service Forwarding means you never miss any call

·New – Now make calls from your address book via Outlook Integration

All of these new calling features are free however; you have to be on the enhance network to take advantage of them. As business leaders you will want your devices on the enhanced network so that you have total compatibility with your new customers as well as the ability to use your video phone to train and motivate new representatives.

Thank you for your support in this effort.

2007 was a very busy year for 5LINX. The company has grown tremendously. We have grown from 34 employees to 115, and counting! We moved into our new corporate headquarters, which many of you came to visit in early December; we had a great time sharing our grand opening with all of you who visited.

We had some high hurdles to clear in 2007, thank you all for your collective patience and constructive comments as we geared up to support a much larger organization. Your comments and loyalty to the organization have helped us get better and stronger as we enter a new year with lots of great opportunity. I am very proud of the management team we have added in the latter half of 2007; this talented group of individuals will dramatically affect how well we handle the growth of our mutual business. We have already seen tremendous improvements in call hold times, porting, and technical support. Stay tuned as we continue to add more customer service staff and new systems that will dramatically change the way 5LINX and GLOBALINX reps and customers are serviced. I am confident that with the team we have in place in the field and in the corporate office, 2008 will be 5LINX best year ever!

Based on the response we have received for the New Orleans National Training Event, I know this is going to be the best ever; it will certainly be the largest. If you have not reserved your spot yet, don’t wait any longer, this is the best way to start off the New Year in your 5LINX business. I hope to see all of our old friends and many new ones.

I want to wish all of you and your families a Happy and Prosperous New Year!