Be a Nice Friend and Rebtel Citizen
It’s Friday today and yet another Rebtel week is coming to an end. It’s quite the cliché but I must say that it’s always surprising when you wake up on a Friday morning and it feels like Monday was just yesterday. I guess that’s what working in a fast paced start-up environment does to your time perception 
Now that we have the debacle with German giants O2 behind us (water under the bridge guys, we don’t like to hold grudges) I thought I would take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about our new Tell-a-Friend program.
For those of you that don’t know what the Tell-a-Friend program is, allow me to briefly “tell” the story. Tell-a-Friend is located on our website on the “Invites” tab under “My Rebtel”. On this page you can import email addresses from friends, family or business acquaintances and send them personalized invites to join you and the rest of the cool people in the Rebtel community. As of right now, you can import contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Windows Live (formerly known as Hotmail) and LinkedIn accounts. We constantly look to add new import sources as all of us have our contacts stored in a variety of locations.
Those were the technicalities; let’s proceed to the fun bit
For the first 20 friends that you send an invitation to that decides to sign up because they think Rebtel sounds like a pretty sweet service (partially because you are using it), your account will be credited with 10 minutes of free calling (remember that they have to make a call to someone for you to get those minutes).
So what now, does it end here you might think? It certainly doesn’t!
With the new Tell-a-Friend, you are not only able to earn minutes, you can also earn dollars (yes, dollars). For the first 20 friends of yours that signs up through your invite and makes a payment to their Rebtel accounts you will receive $10. Yes, you heard right, $10.
So what’s the conclusion from all this? Well, if you haven’t contributed to a better world with a good deed today, this is the perfect opportunity. Give a friend the opportunity of calling someone they like for only a couple of cents instead of a couple of dollars. To get going with Tell-a-Friend you are just one click away.
From me and the rest of the Rebtel Team, have a great weekend!
Ps. Your friends get 20 minutes of free calls by signing up through your Tell-a-friend invitation, now that is a good deed..
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vikas says:
September 15th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Its really a good promotion from rebtel, one must refer as much as friends you can to get the benefits.
Moreover, you can also tell your friends to use the voucher code “freevcalls2″ to double their credit.
For more details, you can google the word freevcalls2.
I hope alex wouldn’t mind me posting this on this forum.
Antz says:
September 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Since Hawaii is a part of United States, is it possible for you to add it under the U.S. States. I tried to spread the word with all my hawaiian friends so they can take advantage of the benefits rebtel has to offer but it seems like rebtel is not allowing people in hawaii to register with their phone number.
About 70% of tax payers in Hawaii are Filipinos, is there anyway for you to put some kind of promotions to call philippines… I can almost guarantee you an unbelievable traffic if you add Hawaii and maybe Philippines. You can see Filipinos all over the world. Living here in Hawaii for almost all of my life I adopted to their environment and I noticed that getting in touch or talking to their families is trully are very important. I met a guy who spend about 300 to 500 a month just for calling his family in the philippines. Hope that one day you guys can find ways, or maybe a program for this matter. Thanks a bunch….
alexander drewniak says:
September 18th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hey Antz,
Thanks for reading the blog and for pointing us in the right direction.
As of today, we don’t have local numbers in Hawaii but in a not too distant future we will.
Best,
Alex