The Localphone Blog

Since we introduced our “Recommend a Friend” promotion, more than one in four of our customers has successfully referred at least one other user. In fact, in March a third of all new users were recommended by our existing happy users!

If you weren’t aware, when you recommend Localphone to your friends and family you can receive 10% of any calling credit purchased in the first 90 days of their account being opened; credit you can use to call anywhere in the world for free! Find out more on our recommend page.

The good news is we’ve now made this even easier. When you log in to the site and visit our recommendation page (select “Earn Free Credit!” from the main menu), you’ll see you can now import all of your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo!, or Windows Live Hotmail.

For Gmail users you will enter your e-mail address and password and your contacts will be imported. Yahoo! and Hotmail users will be taken to the Yahoo/Hotmail site to give authorisation.

Once your contacts have been imported you can select the ones you want to recommend Localphone to, and then it’s just a click of a button to send out your invites.

I hope you enjoy the new system. Please take a moment to vote in our poll if there are any other services you’d like to import from (Facebook, RediffMail, etc.)

Ushering in the Year of the Ox, Chinese New Year will run from Monday 26th January to Monday 9th February. To celebrate, Localphone will be giving away free calls to Chinese landlines and mobiles each day of the festival.

For all of our customers the first 20 minutes of calls to China each day will be completely free—a massive 5 hours of free talk time over the 15 days. This should be plenty of time to wish a different friend or family member a Happy New Year every day!

We will deduct our cheap call rates to China as usual, and then on 10th February we will credit your account with a rebate for the first twenty minutes of call time to China used each day. You can find out full details on our Chinese New Year calling promotion page.

As we’ve mentioned previously here on the Localphone blog, all of our users can earn free credit by linking to our site. Even if you don’t have a website of your own, you can still link to Localphone from Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites.

Skip to Guide

• Facebook
• MySpace
• Orkut
• Bebo

Earn Free Calls With Your Facebook Profile

1. Visit our Recommend Links page and copy your personal recommendation link near the top.
2. Log in to your Facebook account and navigate to the profile page.
3. Click “Share Link” and paste your recommendation link into the box:
   
4. Click “Preview” and enter a comment to encourage your friends to try us out:
   
5. Click “Post” and your link will appear in your timeline:
   

You can also edit your profile and add your recommendation link as one of your websites, write a note to talk about Localphone in more detail, or share your link with friends and your groups via private message or their wall. Don’t forget to become a fan of the Localphone Facebook Page.

Earn Free Calls With Your MySpace Profile

1. Visit our Recommend Links page and copy one of the text or image link snippets near the bottom.
2. Log in to your MySpace account and edit your profile.
3. Paste your link code snippet in the “General” section:
   
4. Click “Save Changes” and your link will appear on your profile:
   

You can also leave comments on your or your friends’ profiles, write a blog entry, or send private messages to your friends to share your link.

Earn Free Calls With Your Orkut Profile

1. Visit our Recommend Links page and copy one of the text or image link snippets near the bottom.
2. Log in to your Orkut account and navigate to your Scrapbook.
3. Paste your link code snippet in the scrap form:
   
4. Click “Post Scrap” and your new entry will appear below.

You can also leave scraps on your friends’ profiles, or share your link with your some of your communities.

Earn Free Calls With Your Bebo Profile

1. Visit our Recommend Links page and copy your personal recommendation link near the top.
2. Log in to your Bebo account and navigate to the whiteboard page.
3. Give your entry a title and write a comment making sure to include your link:
   
4. Click “Save” and your new whiteboard entry will appear:
   

You can also write on your friends’ profiles or private message them with your link, include your link in a blog post, or share your link with your groups.