Few tips to become a wholesale VoIP provider
In
order to choose the right service to offer, I suggest you decide what
your strengths and weaknesses are, what do you like doing and what not?
For example; are you good at sales? Are you good at helping people?
Choose a service where you will need what you are good at.
Here are a few more tips on how to choose the right service to offer
- Many VoIP companies allow you to rent their software, by renting
you can try out the software without investing a lot of money into it.
This way you can try it out and become a VoIP reseller and if you don’t
like you can just stop.
- It is also useful to speak to people already in the VoIP industry
and ask them what they like and dislike about it. Based on that you can
decide what is best for you. If you go to trade shows you can speak to
people there and you will also get a clearer view of the different VoIP
services.
- Read on blogs, forums, websites as get as much information as you can before you start
Once
you have decided what part of the VoIP industry you want to go into,
it’s time to start looking for a company to buy or rent the different
elements from.
I
suggest looking for a company that has been around for some time so you
know it is reliable. Beware of fraud companies trying to sell you their
products. Their services might look like they are cheaper but in the end
they will cost you a lot of money because they don’t work.
Depending on the service you wish to offer, you will need different products in order to start.
For most services you will need:
- A website to allow the customer to sign up and see their options and minutes used (optional but much recommended).
- A provider of minutes so that your customers can call regular PSTN phone numbers.
- A DID provider which allows your customers to have regular PSTN phone numbers for incoming calls.
- A VoIP softswitch to route traffic from the DIDs to your
customers and allow them to call out. Some companies will allow you to
rent your softswitch which is great if you are just starting off your
company and don’t have a lot of capital to invest.
- A hardware provider for the ATAs and IP phones needed to have your customers connect to the VoIP server.
If you want to offer mobile VoIP services, you will need mobile dialers as well.
You may
also need additional modules such as callback, callshop, fax, IP PBX,
transcoding or tunnel depending on what you are offering.
Whatever
services you choose, your hardware and software provider will be able
to tell you exactly what you need in order to successfully set up a VoIP
business.