If you’re familiar with the ins and outs of the Rebtel service you probably know that we have a feature called Free Calls. What it does is allow you to make free international phone calls to any friend or family member (or anyone else) living in either one of the 50 countries where Rebtel is available.

This is all well and good. We love Free Calls and our Rebtel friends do too, but as unfortunate as it might be, the feature is limited to your friends living in these specific countries.

Enter our Tell Friends feature.

By letting friends and family know about Rebtel and saving them from the evil paws of calling cards and complicated desktop clients, you’re not only being a good sport, but you also earn $10 worth of calling credit for every friend that likes Rebtel and goes on to make a payment.

Recently, we added new sharing features to Tell Friends, including Facebook, Twitter and offline sharing. Below you will find a step-by-step guide on how to go about setting up a personal profile page and start sharing it with friends and family.

1. Make Your Profile Visible

Start off by going to Settings and then click on the Profile Page tab. In order for your friends to be able to see your page, you need to make it public. You can also set your own vanity URL under this tab. Be sure to choose wisely, as there’s no way of changing it later. When you’re done, it should look something like in the image below and you can proceed by clicking Edit profile page.

2. Set Up Your Profile Page

Your profile page is just what it sounds like; your own page on Rebtel that you can refer your friends to. It’s also the spot where we link to in your email invites, tweets and Facebook posts. Whenever someone signs up from your page and end up making a payment, you get $10 worth of Rebtel credit to call for.

Fill out your name, where you’re from and tell us something about yourself. You can also choose to write a short message in the speech bubble why you think your friends should give Rebtel a try. In mine for instance, it says: “Try Rebtel and experience international calling the way it should be; cheap, simple to use and smart.”

When you’re done, click Save.

3. Share Your Page

Here comes the fun stuff! When you’re happy with your page you can go ahead and start sharing it. There are a number of different ways to share you page to let’s dive right in.

Type a few email addresses

Do you know a bunch of email addresses to your closest friends and family by memory? Super! Then you can type them in this box.

Invite friends from your email account

If you’re like, well, most people, and tend not to memorize email addresses you can easily import your contacts from your Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL or Outlook account. Pick and choose who you want to receive your invite and click Send.

Share on Facebook & Twitter

This is our newest sharing addition to the Tell Friends feature. If you’re one of the more than 500 million people spending time on Facebook, you probably have a friend or two that do too. All you have to do is click the Share button, write a message to your friends to go along with the post and click Share again. Once the post is in your news feed, it will look something like this.

Promote offline

If you’re in school and have a message board in your library or dorm building, we have a way for you to share Rebtel the “offline way” by putting up a good old fashioned poster. The screen name that you picked for your profile page URL actually works as referral code too. So whenever someone signs up with that code and makes a payment, you get the credit. For more detailed instructions on how to use this method, go here.

Happy sharing everyone!

By: alexander drewniak Tags: facebook, free calls, free phone calls, international calls, twitter