Jajah Now Does Click To Call For Anyone
Nick Gonzalez
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Jajah will be officially announcing their click-to-call buttons on Monday. The buttons, which let people call the owner for free and anonymously, have been quietly in private beta over the past year. They are also taking on international calling card services and Jaxtr and Jangl, who already have click-to-call offerings on social networks and dating sites.
The call buttons are available to registered Jajah users and come as a bit of embed code you can put on your web page or at the end of an email. They come with several customizations. You can adjust the CSS styling, adjust the number it calls, and restrict which countries can try to call you.
When users click the button, the caller enters their phone number and Jajah connects the two parties over a VOIP line. The callee is then told who called and asked if they want to accept the call, say they’re busy, or blacklist the number. If they accept the call, the minutes are charged to their Jajah account, like an “800 number”. At two to three cents per minute, it can be used for some cheap long distance calling. For the cost conscious, Jaxtr and Jangl are still free, however.
I really like this an alternative to email contact on a website…could be really useful if many people adopt it.
This could be useful for commercial bloggers and for emails as well but does the receiver has to have a VOIP line as well or can you make calls to callers who just uses a traditional landline or cell phone
Grand Central also has click to call buttons…….didn’t mention that one….
and don’t forget thinkingvoice.com you can upload your own branding, choose different templates, upload your own buttons, select time of day rules, who gets called first, email and sms messaging. This kind of thing for bloggers though is really pointless, better application is for business use, sales and support related. thinkingvoice was around long before jajah and has had well over 1Million calls on its platform.
It’s pointless for blogger that are not like the crew at Techcrunch, who get so much attention from X or Y startup trying to do a sales pitch
Tim @ Jangl here. Thanks for the mention here, Nick. To all who don’t already know, Jangl’s been offering “Call Me” links and widgets for several months — none of the “click to call” business, per se, but rather simply getting a local number to call anyone with an email address. Period. No headphones, no gunk, no Jax-bucks or credits or other nonsense. I’d say that it’s that kind of simplicity that has brought Jangl-powered calling into more than 20 million profiles so far — with more to come soon.
This isn’t all about “cheaper calling” — that’s a race to zero, because someone will always be cheaper. It’s about providing a simple, easy, private way for people to connect their web persona with their mobile phone. Jangl is already monetizing that with its partnerships, and will continue to do so in other ways, as well. You’ll be hearing about that shortly.
But, in the interim, welcome, Jajah.
Will be damn use full for selling high priced items. Being easily accessible by phone has a huge impact on conversions.
JaJah never won me over, I have always been loyal to my Skype.
Thank you Nick for the article and thanks for the warm welcome!
I know Michael (Jangl) and Konstantin (Jaxtr) personally, there are no hard feelings. The J’s add a level of convenience, simplicity and smart services on existing online properties - adding a new voice dimension to Web 2.0 including more control over your privacy.
Jajah Buttons is a personal, truly global toll-free click-to-call service (available in more than 120 countries) for everyone from end-consumers to SME’s - one-click calling out of e-mails, websites, blogs or social network profiles.
Distant friends and family can now call you without any restrictions, obstacles or cost considerations. You simply add your button to your email signature, send them the email, they click on it and call you - they don’t have to be registered and there is no local numbers play, JAJAH buttons work anytime by just typing in your very own phone number.
Check out http://www.jajahbuttons.com for more details.
Thanks again and regards,
Frederik
I really love their site/modell and am a frequent jajah user and am looking forward for this cool feature.
Just out of curiosity i checked their alexa traffic and expected a huge traffic increase compared to last years numbers. But was suprised to learn that this seems tobe not to be the case (??).
http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....ozilla.com
Am i the only one using jajah more than ever these days?? Or did they change URLS over the past year? Or what could explain this graph?
LignUp had this click-to-call before any of the (”J*”) companies could spell click to call. I know both Jangl and Jaxtr (don’t know Jajah folks) but they could have used LignUp’s software and could have launched their C2C a year ago
SG
Jajah has terrible / non-existent customer service. You are supposed to get free calls to other registered users’ registered phone numbers but when I look at my call history that doesn’t seem to be happening. There’s also some $0.66 fee they charge to text message you some kind of reminder and they have the default checkbox to charge you that fee. I emailed customer service about that a few days ago and have yet to hear back. Bottom line is they appear to be a shady company who makes false claims, over charges users and fails to reply to customer service inquiries or correct billing “mistakes.” Too bad.
@ #4: Thanks for the tip on thinkingvoice.com… I will have to check them out and see about dumping Jajah. Still waiting for my GrandCentral.com number to try them.
thinkingvoice has been doing click to call since april of 2004 - long before the J’s and Skype even existed….http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y204/m04/abu0117/s03
#13 - Have you tried Inviteshare?
check the j’s alexa ranking detail for country traffic. Advertisers look for reach and demographic, they both have huge traffic from Sudan, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Palestine Territory, Pakistan, and India. So at the end of the day US based users seem to be low down the list. If the hope is for advertising dollars to drive the business I would say they are really missing the mark. Not sure of any media buyers looking for eyeballs in Sudan, wait isn’t that where lots of email spam comes from?
Why do all of these companies begin with “Ja?”