3CX Small Business Phone System provides Economical Enterprise Telephony on Windows

3CX today released version 3.1 of its Small Business Phone System. 3CX Phone System is a Windows-based IP PBX that completely replaces a proprietary PABX. Its based on the open SIP standard and interoperates with a wide range of popular SIP phones, VOIP Gateways and SIP-based providers. Although it includes enterprise telephony features such as Call Queuing, Voice Mail and Auto attendant, its targeted at the SMB market - 3CX Phone System is easy to install, manage and its low cost.

“The release of 3CX Phone System is set to accelerate the massive change occurring in the Telephony market space. With 3CX Phone System, advanced features such as Call Queuing can now be obtained for a fraction of the price of traditional Enterprise PBXs. What’s more, advanced features such as integration with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 unified messaging are not even available on today’s proprietary PBXs,” said Nick Galea, 3CX CEO.

Key features of 3CX Small Business Phone System:

* Complete phone system - provides call switching, routing & queuing
* Eliminates phone wiring & patching of extensions to a particular network point
* Makes teleworking easy because employees can answer extension from home
* Purchase cost dramatically lower than a traditional hardware small business PBX
* Scalable - Unlimited extensions and phone lines. No proprietary expansion modules needed!
* Web-based configuration & status indication - Easy phone system management!
* Unified messaging - Receive voice mail via e-mail
* Auto attendant (e.g. 1 for sales, 2 for support etc.)
* Reduces long distance and inter office call costs using VOIP providers.
* Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging integration
* Call Queues
* Certified for Windows 2003

Four available editions: Small Business, Pro, Enterprise and Free
3CX Phone System for Windows is available in 4 editions: The Small Business Edition supports up to 25 extensions, the Pro edition supports an unlimited number of extensions. The Enterprise edition includes advanced features such as Exchange 2007 integration and Call Queuing. Pricing is competitive: Small Business costs $350, the Pro runs at $895 and Enterprise costs $1250.

3CX Phone System Free edition
A free edition, supporting an unlimited number of extensions, is also available. The main difference with Pro and Small Business is that it’s not possible to buy a support package for the free edition, nor does it include the advanced features of 3CX Call Assistant. Not withstanding, the Free Edition does more than most commercial PBXs do; including an auto attendant, voice mail and even user-to-user support via the 3CX moderated product forums at http://www.3cx.com/forums/. The free edition can be downloaded from http://www.3cx.com/ip-pbx/index.html.

About 3CX
3CX is a privately held company with a management team backed by years of experience in developing and selling network infrastructure software. It maintains a global presence with offices in 6 countries and localized information available in German (www.3cx.de), Spanish (www.3cx.es), French (www.3cx.fr), Portuguese (www.3cx.com.br), Japanese (www.3cx.jp), Traditional Chinese (www.3cx.hk), Simplified Chinese (www.3cx.cn), Vietnamese (www.3cx.vn) and Korean (www.3cx.co.kr).

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- freebies
- dating
- finance
- education
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Launching an Affiliate Offer: From Zero to Profitability, Part I
Launching an Affiliate Offer: From Zero to Profitability, Part II

Importance of eCPC (estimated cost-per-click) can’t be overestimated: it allows you to benchmark your campaigns to your competitor’s ones and make sure you buy traffic at proper price – otherwise it is time to make changes to your PPC promotion:

Why eCPC is King

One of the most efficient ways to lower the click cost and improve you Quality Score in Google AsdWords is to properly arrange you adgroups:

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With so many articles on keyword research you are likely to find some new tips to extend and properly research for high targeted keyword lists:

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A recent discussion about links and content compared (Content is King, or Links are King: What’s Your Money On) shows that a great portion of webmasters focuses their efforts on link building (not on content).

If you believe those who say that build a great website, generate unique and quality website – and you will get the links naturally – think over your strategy again. Natural links are next to impossible to get if you want to promote some affiliate program focused project. So, one should buy links, search for links exchanges (3-way and similar).

A few recent gems on improving your link popularity:

How to Check if a Site Passes Link Popularity
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Link Builders
Link Page Report Card

Affiliate marketing using some established domains to get traffic to your offers – a widely used approach. But i did not have a chance to try that. Back in August I have set up accounts on WordPress, Squidoo, Hubpages and MySpace. The services have deleted all accounts within 7-10 days for the violation of their TOS.

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Affiliate Marketing on Squidoo
3 Squidoo Mistakes That Will Hurt Your Rankings
My Squidoo Experiment - 2 sales + Top Ranking at Google

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-    the link price is relatively high
-    the ratio of the sold links is good (compared to other categories)

I certainly neglected those categories where I run websites as I have a good idea about those industries. But I own just a bunch of websites, so it took me a couple of hours to collect this ‘invaluable’ info.

So, if you want to sell links and to make sure that you will sell most of your link inventory via some link broker then it makes sense to start websites in these niches (if you do not have one yet):

• Poker (all websites listed in the category have sold some adv spots – it does not matter if you have zero PR or 9,000,000 Alexa; in fact a few websites have Alexa – n/a (not available)
• Education
• Business (certain subcategories)
• Real estate
• Health
• Computer
• Web development

I do not feel like discussing if it is good practice to sell the links (you know Google does not like it and promises to penalize those websites that sell links). I consider it as a method to increase your online income. And at the age when the competition online is tough and one has chances next to nothing to be on top of search engines this approach has the right to exist.

In addition to link sales you can employ these websites to run PPC campaigns in those niches – that increases your chances that Google won’t slap the domain if you use AdWords.

And there is a way to run all these websites on a shoestring:

1. you need to spend some money on domain names;
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3. install some simple CMS (like WordPress) with nice and free theme;
4. outsource unique article writing (preferably with social sites buzz potential) – post 3-4 per month;
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