Just Another Writer

Sometimes, I really wish I was a man. I’ve written before about how advantageous it would be for me to have a wife. And now, I miss my chance just because of my gender. Life is just not fair. Men get Russian women to marry, I get nothing. After I write this blog post, I’ll be going to the kitchen to run the dishwasher. Then I’m taking the kid to the store and we’re having a picnic. Thursday I return to work to “bring home the bacon”. I do it ALL. And then some.

Guys, if you go to Lover’s Planet, you’ll see some gorgeous women, especially on the Top 100 Hot Russian Brides page.

Hmm, maybe I’ll change my mind about the wife thing. There are men on that site too. I found a geeky professor dude who is my age and who knows how to cook. The question is, will he do it? I also saw a raven-haired Latino dude who is hot. He doesn’t know how to cook, though, so I’ll have to pass. Still, perhaps there are options for me after all.

I really wish that back to school backpacks had looked this good when I was in college. I’d have been stylin’, instead of using the same navy blue one for too many years. I also like the price on this backpack, which is $24.90. Nice.

Rocky Mountain Trail has more than just back to school backpacks, however. They have hard-core hiking backpacks, frame backpacks, week-long backpacks (like if you’re going to tour Europe) and many more products. If you’re into the outdoors, you can set yourself up with a top quality sleeping bag, tent, jacket, gloves and myriad other accessories. Personally, when I’m outside, all I typically need is a pair of sunglasses. However, they have those too.

I’m not always a “by the pool” person, though. One of the best camping trips I ever took was up to Strawberry, Arizona. I’m not even sure if it’s on the map. It sits on the Mogollon Rim, which is a beautiful escarpment. You can see for miles. I sat on the very edge and it was like being in an airplane. At any rate, it’s a good thing I didn’t fall off, because the night before I had gotten no sleep whatsoever. You see, we had driven up from Phoenix’s 115 degree weather, and didn’t really pack all that well. I was pretty surprised (and cold) when it turned out that temperatures were 40 degrees at night. In Phoenix, we were lucky if they got below 100. The lesson from that particular trip was to “be prepared”, and the Rocky Mountain Trail site can definitely make sure that you are. The affordable prices make it a bit easier to accomplish that preparedness, as well.

The Ifbyphone Phone-Me-Now service is something that makes perfect sense. You know how when people get on the computer, it’s sometimes difficult for them to get off? They just keep clicking and clicking until eventually they have went from researching lower car insurance rates to watching videos of people herding cats on YouTube.

One thing that companies can do to keep that from happening to their potential customers is use the Ifbyphone - free click to call and custom voice mashups service. What happens, is instead of the client seeing the company’s phone number and clicking away, is that the customer can “Click to Call”, resulting in both the company and customer’s phones ringing simultaneously, which, in turn, results in a real life, real-time connection. Sounds great for both parties!

Press Release:

Ifbyphone Releases revolutionary Phone-Me-Now: the world’s first Zero Configuration Click to Call
With 100 free minutes per month Phone-Me-Now

Promises to be biggest Killer App of 2008

Chicago, IL: December, 2007 - Ifbyphone, a voice infrastructure and applications development company providing enterprise class services to Small and Medium sized Businesses (SMB’s), has just released a solution destined to revolutionize the web to voice space: Phone-Me-Now, a zero configuration click to call application. To introduce Phone-Me-Now to hundreds of thousands of businesses that will be able to use it as a sales tool, Ifbyphone is making it available free of charge for 6 months and providing the first 100 minutes per month of usage for free as well.

This patent pending solution can be integrated in less then 60 seconds into any website, email or hyperlinked document and requires no experience to configure. It’s literally the Internet’s first instant voice mash up tool.

“While many companies provide click to call services we were troubled by how complex they are to use. Users had to cut and paste HTML or javascript, rendering these services outside of the technical reach of thousands of businesses. Once we designed this patent pending solution we configured our existing smart click to call services to work with the Phone-Me-Now interface.” says Irv Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Ifbyphone. The zero configuration Phone-Me-Now service is literally the Holy Grail of web to telephone integration and ease of use.

Using Phone-Me-Now is as simple as typing:

www.phone-me-now/your-business-number

into any web site, Word Document, Powerpoint Presentation, Spreadsheet, PDF or email. When a reader clicks on the link they are prompted for their telephone number and the Ifbyphone systems call your business, calls the reader and conferences the call. Phone-Me-Now works with any telephone number you register on your Ifbyphone account.

“We wanted to eliminate any barriers to basic click to call, and know that Phone-Me-Now will immediately set an industry standard for rapid deployment. If the Internet is all about speed and response, what could be a more appropriate Killer App for 2008 than Phone-Me-Now, which puts a business owner in instant voice communication with their customers,” adds Shapiro.

Free Phone-Me-Now accounts can be updated to additional Ifbyphone packages that include:

- Click to Call with Custom Dialog Forms
- Integrated Call Routing and Reporting
- Find Me
- Virtual Voice Mail
- Virtual Receptionist
- Outbound Voice Broadcast
- Web Configured Voice Dialogs (Hosted IVR)
- Call Recording
- Backend Database Integration
- A Complete Call Management API

All Ifbyphone solutions work with any telephone system and are fully portable if a company moves from one telephone transport vendor to another.

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About Ifbyphone:

Ifbyphone is a hosted voice application and platform company with a simplified approach to the deployment of stand-alone and web-integrated voice services for small and medium sized businesses (SMB). Combining advanced telephony and web services, Ifbyphone’s web-integrated voice applications turn the small business telephone into a powerful tool, increasing lead generation, improving sales conversion and enhancing the customer experience. Ifbyphone makes it easier for customers to connect with you from online and off. All of Ifbyphone’s applications are accessible via a click on a Web site, an inbound call to a toll free number, an outbound call or with the help of a programmable API. Our configuration and deployment tools look and feel just like Web applications, and require no previous knowledge of telephony programming or terminology.

Previously available only to large enterprises, Ifbyphone is delivering these converged voice and web solutions at affordable monthly fees, with no major upfront costs. The company’s services are available online and through a network of SMB value-added resellers.