Talk Motion, Inc. - Phone Company for Sale Company has existing customers and is profitable Start Price - Current Price - Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 12, 2007 End Time Monday, August 04, 2008 Location Los Angeles, California See more about 'Talk Motion, Inc. - Phone Company for Sale' Description THIS IS A NO RESERVE AUCTION WWW.TALKMOTION.COM THIS IS A FULLY OPERATIONAL BUSINESS ALREADY GENERATING PROFITS About Talk Motion: Talk Motion is a VOIP (Voice Over IP) phone service provider. Established January of 2007, the company has shown amazing growth and potential in a very short period of time. Our company is structured in a way to be one of the most affordable US based Internet phone service providers. Talk Motion offers unlimited local and long distance phone service to anywhere in the US & Canada for a flat rate. Residential phone service clients are charged $18.95 per month for unlimited phone service. To place and receive calls, customers only need a broadband Internet connection, a regular phone and a Talk Motion telephone adapter. Talk Motion customers can save up to 60% over what traditional phone companies charge US consumers for local and long distance calling services. With large domestic and international coverage, Talk Motion consumers and small business subscribers can select US phone numbers from all across the country. General Overview Current Customer Count:   211 Average Monthly Revenue:   $7,000 Average Monthly Costs:   $2,000 Company assets included: See below for list of assets.   $124,750 The growth of voice over IP phone services, ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN FORBES MAGAZINE: VoIP service sales dwarfed those of traditional voice services for the year ended in June, according to a new research report issued this week by investment firm Merrill Lynch. As of June, VoIP service sales grew 31% year-over-year, while sales of legacy voice services declined by 20 percent during the same period, according to the report. Reason for sale: As owners, we believe that Talk Motion's potential is immense. It is not fair to the business, or the individual clients, that we are not able to dedicate as much time as is needed to the company. This lack of dedication is mainly due to the fact that both my partner and I have other businesses that require our attention. Brand name: The company grew much faster than any of us would have ever imagined, the moment we turned on our advertising, we immediately started to get visits and orders. Our website became so popular, that it was recently rated the number 435,000th most visited website on the Internet, which is big for a startup business. This ranking means that we currently average about 500 unique visitors to our website every day. Training: My partner and I will both train the buyer on all aspects of this business. Free support will be offered for up to 3 months after the official transfer of the business. Furthermore, detailed manuals will be written with instructions on running the entire business. Advertising: When starting the business, we contracted with an online marketing firm to produce our entire marketing campaigns for us. The cost for this service was $13,750, all keywords and online marketing programs will be transferred to the buyer of the business. When our advertising is turned on with Google & Yahoo, we average 1 customer for every $25 we spend on advertising. Making Money: When the customer signs up, they pay a $29.95 setup fee plus $11.99 shipping and handling for their welcome package. If they are transferring a number over from another service provider to our network, we charge a $35 telephone number port fee. We charge our clients $18.95/month + service fees, service fees are used to recoup some of our expenses that you have to pay as a company. The average bill amount of the customer is $23.79, about $5 of this is your cost. Our business clients, which make up about 10% of our client base pay $34.95 a month for unlimited phone service. A lot of money is also made on customers that call 411 and make International calls, which is pure profit and requires no additional work on your behalf. RUNNING THE BUSINESS Presently my partner and I run this business ourselves without any problems what so ever. The business can be run by a single person, however it will be a full time job for that individual. My partner and I spend about 4 hours a day each on the business. About 95% of your calls are sales calls, the remaining 5% are billing or customer service questions. Once a customer's account is established, you will never need to communicate with that customer ever again. They will use the service and the billing system will charge them every month. ASSETS INCLUDED WITH THE SALE OF THIS BUSINESS Computer network: Our entire computer network consists of 5 servers and 1 enterprise cisco router, the hardware that we have utilized is so powerful that it can handle up to 5,000 clients. At which point you would need to invest about $50,000 into new computer hardware to handle the additional load. The cost of our current computer network is about $77,000.   Billing system: Probably the most valuable part of the business, which calculates the customers bill every month and automatically charges the credit card. All you have to do is watch the money come in! Our billing system is very enhanced and offers clients with an automated online account control panel. Customers can login to their accounts and check minutes used and balances due. They can also make payments and update billing information through the website. The design and implementation of this system cost around $34,000.   Website: The website design and all rights to the site are included with this sale. BUSINESS PERFORMANCE The moment our advertising is turned on, we start to get customers within an hour. Our advertising is only done on Google & Yahoo. We set our daily spending limit to $100 a day on advertising which generates a minimum of 4 customers, on a good day we'll hit 6 customers because of word of mouth from current customer's. The amount of money that you want to spend on advertising is really up to you, there are so many searches every day for phone service that you can spend up to $1,000 a day if you wanted to. OUR VENDORS You will be introduced to all of our vendors, for example we have vendors for all of the following: Inbound calls (actual telephone numbers) Outbound calls 911 provider (we're fully enabled to provide 911 services) Data center (where all the equipment is stored) Merchant provider (credit card processing) Web Hosting & Design And much more........ About myself... I'm an entrepreneur at heart, I enjoy starting new businesses such as Talk Motion and then selling them to new owners that can take the company to the next level. If you have any specific questions that I did not answer in this listing, please feel free to email me directly at pbabaian@gmail.com. I'll be more than happy to answer any specific questions that you may have. I will take into consideration any serious offers for the business. Place a Bid!