Important Cellular News

Double Points

Double points for wireless activations is still running but time is running out. To qualify for double points, all orders must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on September 20, 2008. This double point promotion is the fastest way to build your business and take you to the next level.  To help you acquire more cellular customers than ever before, we’ve recently released additional phone promotions.  Here are only a few of the promotions on the best selling phones:

AT&T

LG Shine CU720- FREE ($124.99 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

Samsung BlackJack II i617 – $.01 upfront and you make $49.99 after mail in rebate ($199.98 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

LG Vu CU920– Now only $49.99 ($130 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

T-Mobile

T-Mobile Shadow- FREE after mail in rebate ($100 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

Samsung Blast- FREE and you make $50 after mail in rebate ($50 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

Motorola W490 (available in 5 colors)-  FREE and you make $50 after mail in rebate ($79.99 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

Sprint Nextel

Samsung Instinct- Only $59.99 after mail in rebate ($70 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

LG Rumor- FREE ($99.99 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

HTC Touch- FREE after mail in rebate ($100 upfront savings over carrier pricing)

$6000 BlackBerry Giveaway

The BlackBerry Giveaway is still anyone’s game!  That means that you’re still in the running to win one of 3 monetary prizes.  First place will receive $3000, second place $2000 and third place $1000. Not only do you get Double Points but you can also put yourself in a position to earn an additional $3,000 on top of the standard commissions earned for building your business with cellular customers.  Make sure you and your customers take advantage of the limited time offers on all of the most popular Blackberry’s available.

AT&T
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 - Free plus a free Bluetooth headset ($129.99 after rebate with no Bluetooth headset from carrier directly)
BlackBerry Curve 8810 - Free after mail in rebate plus a free Bluetooth headset ($99.99 after rebate with no Bluetooth headset from carrier directly)

T-Mobile
BlackBerry Pearl with myFaves – Free, you make $50 with mail in rebate plus you get a free Bluetooth headset ($99.99 after mail in rebate from carrier directly with no Bluetooth headset)
BlackBerry Curve – Free after mail in rebate ($199.99 from carrier directly)

Sprint Nextel
BlackBerry Curve 8830 – Only $49.99 after mail in rebate and a free Bluetooth headset ($99.99 from carrier directly with no Bluetooth headset)
BlackBerry Curve 8830 World Edition – $149.99 after mail in rebate ($219.99 from carrier directly)

Other Important notes
We’re on pace for the biggest month in company history and these promotions are sure to put money in your pocket and put all of us over the top.  Get ready to start enjoying all of the success and prosperity your 5LINX business is going to bring.  Tell everyone you know about these amazing offers and go to your website today to see all of the money saving promotions that are available.  If you have any questions regarding these promotions, please contact Cellular Services

Also, don’t forget the two point promotion for all GLOBALINX Wi-Fi activations and National Registrations are ending on September 20^th and double points for GLOBALINX Video Phones are ending on September 24^th. Get signed up for the event and utilize the opportunity of double points to build your business. 

Details of Promotion:
• Any cellular activation, Residential GLOBALINX Wi-Fi order or National registration placed from September 1st through September 20th is eligible.
• All orders will count as a maximum of two (2) customer points.
• All orders must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on September 20, 2008 to be counted as two points.
• No customer may place more than four (4) orders for the same residential product in the same name, address and/or credit card. No Exceptions!
• Each representative will be awarded points for a maximum of two (2) tickets purchased (representative + guest/spouse) for the Kansas City Event. Should more than two (2) tickets be purchased for the Kansas City Event under the same representative only the first two (2) will be awarded customer points.
• Any customer point associated with an event ticket purchase is valid only from the time of purchase until the conclusion of that event.
• Agents are excluded from this promotion.
• This promotion is exclusive and separate from all other promotions. The requirements of this promotion are in addition to any other promotions run by 5LINX.
• All promotions are governed by the 5LINX Policies and Procedures manual.

Amazing August Promotions

The Jump Start Bonus Returns!!

Earning $500 has never been so easy.Any representative that has been in the business at least 60 days is eligible. All you need do to qualify is acquire five (5) new personal customer points and personally enroll and sponsor two (2) new representatives within the month of August.

This means that if your start date is before June 1, 2008 you are already eligible to start working toward this promotion.In an effort to not exclude others, if you reach your 60^th day during the month of August, you will then be eligible to attain this promotion.As an example, if your start date was June 15^th, come August 15^th you would be eligible for this promotion.

Details of Promotion:
·All representatives with a start date prior to June 1, 2008 are eligible.
·All representatives with a start date after June 1, 2008 will become eligible on the 61^st calendar day after their start date. At this time they may begin submitting representatives and customers to be used toward these promotion requirements.
·All five (5) personal customer points used towards this promotion must be submitted within the month of August; only these customers will be used towards this promotion.
·Both IMRs used toward this promotion must be submitted within the month of August.
·Both IMRs must be enrolled and sponsored by the representative seeking the bonus.
·Both IMRs must get qualified with four (4) customer points (one outside of their name/address/credit card) within their first thirty (30) days.
·All customers must be ACTIVE before the bonus is paid out.
·A maximum of four (4) orders in the same name/household/credit card will count toward this promotion. No Exceptions!
·All faxed orders/applications must be submitted and received by the 5LINX Corporate Office by 6:00 p.m. (EST) on August 29, 2008 to count towards this promotion.
·All online orders/applications must be submitted and received by the 5LINX Corporate Office by 11:59 p.m. (EST) on August 31, 2008 to count towards this promotion.
·The bonus will be held for thirty (30) days from the last customer activation date to ensure all requirements are met and maintained.
·The requirements of this promotion are in addition to and separate from all other 5LINX promotions.
·All promotions governed by the 5LINX Statement of Policies and Procedures.

Watch the Money Roll In!

5LINX is doing it again!You now have the chance to earn $500 multiple times and a BRAND NEW ROLEX!!

From July 1, 2008 through September 15, 2008 any representative that acquires ten (10) unique personal GLOBALINX customers will earn $500.That’s $500 for every ten (10) unique GLOBALINX customers.Twenty will earn you $1000; fifty will earn you $2500!!There’s no limit to how much money you can earn!

In addition the representative that acquires the most unique personal GLOBALINX customers between 7/1 and 9/15 will be awarded a brand new SILVER and BLUE ROLEX at the 5LINX National Training event in Kansas City in September!

Details of Promotion:
·Any GLOBALINX customer used towards this promotion must be submitted between July 1, 2008 and September 15, 2008; only these customers will be used towards this promotion.
·Only unique customer orders will be counted toward this promotion.Each unique customer name and/or credit card will only count once toward the promotion requirements (regardless of point value).
·The bonus will be paid on each set of ten (10) unique GLOBALINX customers only.
·All customers must be ACTIVE before the bonus is paid out.
·All online orders/applications must be submitted and received by the 5LINX Corporate Office by 11:59 p.m. (EST) on September 15, 2008 to count towards this promotion.
·The bonus will be held for thirty (30) days from the last customer activation date to ensure all requirements are met and maintained.
·The requirements of this promotion are in addition to and separate from all other 5LINX promotions.
·All promotions governed by the 5LINX Statement of Policies and Procedures.

Double ET Openline Bonus Promotion Extended!!

5LINX is making the NEWEST Openline bonuses even better!!

For the month of August, the ET Openline bonuses for ten (10) and twenty (20) representatives will be DOUBLED!!

That means that as an ET if you acquire 10 openline qualified IMRs in August you will receive $2,000!!  Better still, if you acquire 20 openline qualified IMRs in August you will receive $4,000!!

All normal Openline bonus requirements and restrictions apply.

GLOBALINX Free Shipping!!

For the month of August all GLOBALINX Residential orders will receive FREE GROUND SHIPPING!!

Details of Promotion:
• Any Residential GLOBALINX order placed in August 2008 regardless of equipment will receive free ground shipping to any continental US address.
• All online orders must be submitted by 11:59pm (EST) on August 31, 2008 to receive free shipping.
• No customer may place more than four (4) orders for the same residential product in the same name, address and/or credit card. No Exceptions!

Two Points on Wi-Fi Phones and National Registrations!!

From August 2^nd through August 15^th all GLOBALINX Wi-Fi phone orders and 5LINX National Training Event registrations will be awarded TWO (2) CUSTOMER POINTS!!

Details of Promotion:
• Any Residential GLOBALINX Wi-Fi order or National registration placed from August 2 through August 15 is eligible.
• All orders will count as a maximum of two (2) customer points.
• All orders must be submitted by 11:59 pm (EST) on August 15, 2008 to be counted as two points.
• No customer may place more than four (4) orders for the same residential product in the same name, address and/or credit card. No Exceptions!
• Each representative will be awarded points for a maximum of two (2) tickets purchased (representative + guest/spouse) for the Kansas City Event. Should more than two (2) tickets be purchased for the Kansas City Event under the same representative only the first two (2) will be awarded customer points.
• Any customer point associated with an event ticket purchase is valid only from the time of purchase until the conclusion of that event.
• Agents are excluded from this promotion.
• This promotion is exclusive and separate from all other promotions. The requirements of this promotion are in addition to any other promotions run by 5LINX.
• All promotions are governed by the 5LINX Policies and Procedures manual.

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

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