By: James Koole on May 22nd, 2012
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: OpenSRS Offers, Ting, Webinar
Comments: 2

A couple of weeks back we added Ting to OpenSRS Offers. It’s a pretty simple proposition: as a reseller you can generate a unique URL, use it to provide a $50 discount on a device purchase for your customers, and then get a share of the revenue generated for two years.

But there’s obviously much more to Ting, and a lot more for us to tell you about how to go about offering Ting service to your customers.

Free webinar!

Next Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 2:00pm EDT, we’re hosting a free webinar to give you a deeper dive into Ting and the opportunity for OpenSRS Resellers.

It’ll be about an hour long with some time for questions at the end. Our aim is that you’ll have a great sense of what Ting is all about, and you’ll have a really good understanding of how to offer it to your customers using OpenSRS Offers.

Presenting will be Scott Allan, Director, Ting and myself, James Koole, Communications Lead, OpenSRS. Between the two of us, we’ll make sure you have the whole story. Scott knows Ting inside and out and will show you around the Ting site and explain the disruptive approach they have taken in creating Ting. I’ll handle the OpenSRS Offers side and make sure you go away with marketing advice and assets you can use to start offering Ting service right away.

Learn more and register today

You can read more about what we’ll talk about over on the webinar page. Like all of our webinars, it’s free and open to everyone to attend. We’ll record it as well, so if you can’t make it on May 29th, sign up anyways and we’ll be sure to send you the link to the recording as soon as it’s posted.

For those who like instant gratification, you can take my word for it that it’ll be great, and go straight to the sign up page by clicking here.

By: James Koole on May 16th, 2012
Posted in: Partners and Resellers
Tags: Meet the Resellers
Comments: 0

We’re back with another article in our popular “Meet our Reseller” series. This time around we’re featuring OpenSRS Reseller Pickaweb.co.uk. They’ve been using OpenSRS since 2002 for both their UK-based brand, Pickaweb, as well as their Spanish sister company Merkaweb.com.

The story of Pickaweb is a great one – husband and wife team Tony Messer and Pilar Torres Wahlberg literally started the company in a spare room of their home and have grown steadily since, now serving 20,000 customers in the UK and Spain.

Pickaweb’s approach is simple – take the fear out of the Internet for their customers through a commitment to great customer service combined with a willingness and passion to take the time to explain how anyone can use the web to grow their business.

It’s a great success story! We’re very proud to have Pickaweb as an OpenSRS reseller. Read the full article.

By: OpenSRS Team on May 15th, 2012
Posted in: Announcements
Tags: Holiday Hours
Comments: 0

It’s already the May 2-4 weekend coming up here in Canada and that means a day off for most of us on Monday, May 21 to celebrate our beloved Queen Victoria.

She was the Queen of England, Great Britain and Ireland from 1838 until she died in 1901. Why do we care so much about Queen Victoria? She was the Queen when Canada became a country in 1867. Kudos to her for letting us go our own way from the motherland. I think we’ve done pretty well for ourselves, thank you very much.

As we’ve explained in past holiday hours posts, traditionally we celebrate Victoria Day by opening up the cottage, opening up some beers, and blowing up some stuff with fireworks. O Canada!

With the wit out of the way, we’ll move on to official business:

Our Technical Support team continues to be available 24/7 to assist you throughout the holiday weekend.

Please note that during this closure, there will be:

• No orders or requests processed for the following TLD’s: .at, .ch, .li, .dk, .com.mx
• No special processing for .ca (registrant transfers, conflicting and municipal registrations) or .eu/.be (redemptions).

Here are the hours by department:

By: OpenSRS Team on May 14th, 2012
Posted in: Industry News
Tags: .CA, CIRA
Comments: 0

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Nomination Committee is seeking interested individuals from across Canada to apply to fill three open positions for the Nomination Committee Slate of CIRA’s Board of Directors Election. Canadians with governance experience and relevant background in industry, technology or the Internet are encouraged to apply.

Applications will be accepted from May 10 to June 8, 2012 at the CIRA website.

.CA Members and Registrants can play a key role in guiding the future of the Internet through their participation in the Nomination Committee Slate. CIRA will be inviting .CA Members and Registrants to participate in this stage of the 2012 CIRA Election.

By: OpenSRS Team on May 9th, 2012
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: Offers, Ting
Comments: 8

Starting today OpenSRS Resellers can offer phone service from Tucows’ US mobile phone service, Ting.

You’ll find Ting in OpenSRS Offers – log into the new OpenSRS Control Panel and click the Offers Manager tab. Once you agree to the terms and conditions, and you’ll be assigned a unique Ting.com URL that you’ll use to send people to Ting to learn about the service.

What’s the Ting Offer?

• For your customers: Through OpenSRS Offers, you’ll be able to provide a $50 discount off a device purchase to everyone who you send to Ting.

Ting provides cost-savings and better customer service – the mobile phone service your customers deserve. Businesses (and families) can have unlimited devices on one account and they can pool multiple users together usage for greater savings. You can trust that your customers are in good hands at Ting. We’re quite confident that they’ll thank you for telling them about it.

• For OpenSRS Resellers: Ting provides an additional source of recurring revenue.

When someone signs up for Ting service using your URL or partner code, you get 25% of net revenue generated by that customer for two years.

More Information

The best place to learn more about Ting and see what makes it different is the Ting website. Try out the savings calculator, look at the plans, and maybe even try the service for yourself. Be sure to check out what people are saying about Ting on the Ting Facebook page and on Twitter.

Here’s an example:

My cell phone bill was so confounding, I'd have a better chance of grasping string theory. Switched to Ting, problem solved. @tingftw

May 4, 2012 8:34 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

@SeanGold3

Sean Gold

Getting Started

To get started with Ting in OpenSRS Offers, you can visit our OpenSRS Offers information page. There are some nice marketing resources for you including banner ads, logos, and email/web copy in the Offers section of our Resource Center. If you have any questions, drop by the OpenSRS Forums and ask away in the Ting area.