An Innovative Way to Offer Phone Consulting

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Janet Meiners Thaeler

My passion is online PR and social media. I've freelanced for newspapers, City Search, & Connect Magazine. Blogging: Podango, Marketing Pilgrim, etc. I work for OrangeSoda internet marketing and freelance. Follow Newspapergrl on Twitter.

An Innovative Way to Offer Phone Consulting

Date: 27 Jun 2007 Author: NewspaperGirl

I seem to have a phone theme lately. Ether.com is a new company that lets you offer consulting services by phone (thank you Paul for telling me about this phone consulting service). You can charge by the minute or the hour. If you charge by the hour, be aware that the service will cut off the call as soon as you hit the hour mark. So I recommend charging per minute.

Ether takes care of the billing and keeps 15%. There is a checkbox where you can allow people to leave you a tip.

I wish I could bill some of my friends by the minute sometimes. You know after you’ve heard the same story twice, then you start billing. Just kidding.

However, you would be happy to talk to long-winded clients when you’re billing by the minute. There are all sorts of experts who use Ether in a variety of ways. Like therapists. publicists. attorneys should use it. Check out the ether blog for other examples. Maybe you are a comedian and could charge for your jokes.

This would be good to put as a standard broiler plate at the end of your press release. If you’re innovative it could even be your press release. I challenge Paul Allen to offer this service. He offers a lot of valuable advice and contacts but he’s swamped. He could assist more people and both sides would be happy.

So if you need consulting on blogging, internet marketing, press releases, and the like, you can set up a time to call me using the link below.

Here’s an example of my listing:

Newspapergrl

1-888-MY-ETHER ext. 01994571