Gaboogie has opened it’s doors, features include:

• 24/7 Access
• Reservationless Conference Calls
• Free VoIP Conferencing
• 5 cents/min USA & Canada
• 7 cents/min for many International Regions
• SMS Alerts
• Scheduled Calls
• Automated Calls
• Dial-out
• Recording
• Operator Assistance

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International conference calls can be very expensive for all parties.  If you provide a toll free dial-in number, you’ll be footing the bill for all of those long distance calls.  If you decide to offer people a dial-in number in your own country, to say they will will be unhappy with the international long distance charges they pay would be an understatement.

With Gaboogie, you will have access to a network of international local numbers that can access our conference calling service at local rates.  If you’re holding a conference call with people in Brisbane, Paris, and Vancouver then everyone dials a local number and pays only local service rates.  You pay as low as $0.04/minute/user for the service. No local toll charges for your attendees.  You can save hundreds or even thousands of dollars every month off your existing international conference calling solution.

So, how much does your organization spend on conference calling services every year?  In these times, we are all increasingly looking to find ways to reduce this expense.  Fortunately, with a little planning and Gaboogie, you can host cross border conference calls for as little as you pay for a domestic call.

Check out the cities we support.  If you don’t find your city listed below, contact us and we will do our best to add it for you. For many countries and cities, we can add new numbers relatively quickly.

Canada
Vancouver, BC – 604-424-9062
Kelowna, BC – 250-448-2462
Calgary, AB – 587-779-4622
Edmonton, AB – 780-809-3555
Red Deer, AB – 587-797-0701
Toronto, ON – 647-317-9773
Ottawa, ON- 613-317-2901
Pickering ON – 289-315-0561
Montreal, QC – 514-587-2659
Halifax, NS – 902-442-9937
Moncton, NB – 506-800-1058
St. John’s, NL – 709-800-7316
Winnipeg, MN – 204-977-6645

USA
Miami, FL – 786-431-2530
Boston, MA – 857-244-6262
New York, NY – 646-758-9767
Jersey City, NJ – 201-499-1211
Tucson, AZ – 520-300-7564
Detroit, MI – 313-879-6979
Atlanta, GA – 678-298-5482
Philadelphia, PA – 267-414-1565
Huntington Beach, CA – 714-849-5388

UK
London – +442033189837

France
+33975181472

Croatia
+38523777026

More being added every day!

Gaboogie will be available in the late fall of 2011.

Whether you need local or toll free conference call services in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, St. John’s, Victoria, Vancouver, Winnipeg or anywhere else in the world, Gaboogie’s domestic and international conference call service can connect your customers and your team quickly, easily and professionally.  And if your city isn’t one of the Canadian cities listed below, contact us.  We have access to telephone numbers all across this great nation of ours!

Canada
Vancouver, BC – 604-424-9062
Kelowna, BC – 250-448-2462
Calgary, AB – 587-779-4622
Edmonton, AB – 780-809-3555
Red Deer, AB – 587-797-0701
Toronto, ON – 647-317-9773
Ottawa, ON- 613-317-2901
Pickering ON – 289-315-0561
Montreal, QC – 514-587-2659
Halifax, NS – 902-442-9937
Moncton, NB – 506-800-1058
St. John’s, NL – 709-800-7316
Winnipeg, MN – 204-977-6645

Conference calls. Updated.

Gaboogie is the tool for having easy and inexpensive telemeetings, globally! Gaboogie is a great solution that combines conference calling with outbound calling, scheduling, and more in an easy + reliable service. With Gaboogie’s rich and easy to use toolset, you can host any kind of meeting you want ranging from a simple conference call to a large lecture with 100 or more participants. Gaboogie also makes it easy record the meeting, and offers storage of that recording at no extra charge.

Gaboogie is optimized for mobile collaboration right from meeting setup, during the in-call experience and continues to provide a call record after the meeting is complete to ensure productivity at your desk or on the road.

With call-in numbers in more than 20 countries and 100 cities today, including Canada, Gaboogie is a local call away from most North American centers, and many European and Asian cities as well.

List of Features:

• Very competitive per minute rates
• Online scheduling or Ad hoc dial-in
• 100 local dial in numbers in 20 countries
• Free VoIP Conferencing (SIP Registration)
• Invitations & reminders by email and mobile phone
• Free call-in option
• Personal PIN enhances security and participant awareness
• Schedule call-out using caller ID for PIN-less access
• Intuitive call moderation controls, including hand raising, call lock, recording and mute
• Unlimited MP3 Recordings available
• Convenient web dashboard keeps all your calls at your fingertips
• Free Call Archiving

Gaboogie will be available in late fall 2011.

Back in 2007 we launched Gaboogie.com “Conference Calling. Updated”. Gaboogie grew quickly and the story was picked up by GigaOm, CNET, VoIP Watch and others.

Not long after launch we decided to re-jig the offer with an emphasis on mobile (seemed prudent at the time) and launched the first version of that service via Lypp.com. Our thoughts on mobile could not have been more wrong. Our customers did not want to complicate their lives by using Instant Messaging & SMS to create group calls, they simply wanted to have a conference call by dialing into a toll free number. The service floundered.

After seeing a steady decrease in volume we decided to make some changes. In 2008 Lypp.com was transformed into a hybrid reservation-less conferencing service with some Gaboogie perks eg. scheduling, outbound calling, recording, etc. Since then the ‘transformed’ Lypp service has grown steadily and for the most part we have happy customers.

Recently we had a service outage that affected a subset of our customers in Canada. In concert with the outage we had support issues where tickets were not making it to the right techs, exacerbating the issue which resulted in some customers leaving, vowing never to return. Certainly not a shining moment in the company’s history.

Today we are again making some material changes in the way we do business and the way we support our customers, for the better we believe.

Sales & Support
On the ticket tracking side we are now using Email, Web Chat, Twitter & Facebook all tied together with Assistly + our call centre to respond and track comments (good and bad), inquiries or issues our customers might be experiencing. The system has been in place for a few days now and most customers are very happy with the results.

Redundancy & Reliability
In preparation for catastrophic failures or partial failures, like the one we suffered earlier this week, we have been hard at work rebuilding the original Gaboogie offer on a completely separate network with independent infrastructure.

The idea here is to provide an alternate service for those who not only want some redundancy and maybe something a little different than Lypp but who also want to save money! The new Gaboogie offer will include prepaid (no expiration of credits) Toll Free service starting at 5 cents/min for North America. It will also include new features in addition to the features already offered by Lypp:

• Free Signup
• Free Trial of traditional conferencing service
• Free VoIP Teleconferencing (Use your IP Phones or Softphones to connect and use the service at no cost! SIP 3261 compliant.)
• Hi-Def VoIP Conferencing with a premium account
• Complete Editing of Scheduled Conferences
• Global Access
  and more!

We are very excited with this new and improved Gaboogie offer. We are hoping to launch Gaboogie.com and the new service in the next few weeks, follow us on twitter for updates! Combined with our new support and ticketing system we feel Gaboogie will soon be in a great position to once again disrupt the conferencing biz!

While contending with growth, we have been busy readying for the new Lypp 3.0 beta and things are looking rosy. I can’t tell you what we are doing but I can tell you the changes will have a positive impact on conferencing and will add significant value for our users. We should have a beta of the new service out by late fall all current users will be invited to trial the new service and the new price.

Many of the CSPs (Conference Service Provider) are based in the US, which means US prices and higher usage costs for calls made by Canadians for calls based largely in Canada.

The answer is to use a Canadian conference call service provider. Some of the conference call providers that claim to be Canadian are not based in Canada, they simply sell services to Canadians.

The hidden fees will get you in the end.
- Make sure that you are paying in CDN dollars
- Are there monthly fees and/or setup fees?
- Do you pay for call recording and storage?
- Watch out for system access fees.

Lypp offers a no fuss, “Pay for what you use” system, including great features like;
- Microsoft Outlook plugin for syncing your Outlook Calendar with the Lypp service
- Scheduled Outbound dialing to more than 30 countries (no need for International toll free)
- Immediate Activation
- Simple and easy Sub-user account creation
- Online billing and detailed invoicing

Nothing could be easier or more affordable, especially for Canadians.

Check out Lypp today, and start saving.

SMB Phone Inc. obtains Microsoft certification for Response Point and announces early release of SMB Digital Voice™

SMB Phone Inc. (SMBPhone.ca) announced today it has obtained certification as an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP) for Microsoft’s small business phone system/IP PBX “Response Point”. This certification marks the beta service offering of SMB Phone’s digital telephone service: SMB Digital Voice, made specifically for Microsoft Response Point phone systems.

“We are very excited to be able to bring our new SMB Digital Voice service to small and medium business in Canada,” said Trent Johnsen, Founder & VP Sales. “We believe our certification will help us achieve the goal of becoming the de-facto telephone service provider for Response Point in Canada. Until recently the only way small business in Canada could integrate scalable and reliable telephony services was through acquisition of expensive equipment and analog circuits from old-school telephone companies. SMB Phone has removed those barriers by integrating with Response Point and allowing our customers to leverage our national access to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network).”

SMB Digital Voice™ features:

• $29.95 Digital Business Telephones Lines
• Competitive Long Distance (North America)
• Competitive International Long Distance Rates
• Free calling between offices on SMB Phone network
• Free inter-branch call transfer
• Free local calling
• Free Caller ID
• Burstable Voice Channels (Auto-expandable phone service)
• Local Number Portability (Transfer your existing phone number)
• e911
• 611 (direct support number)
• Multiple regional phone numbers (get a phone number almost anywhere in Canada)
• SMB Anywhere™ (support for remote users)

Customers interested in participating in the early release program for SMB Digital Voice™ will receive 30 days free and a 50% monthly discount off the subscription rate. For more information please call +1 (866) 473-0516, ask for ‘sales’.

About SMB Phone Inc.
SMB Phone is a premium Canadian business telephone company designed exclusively to serve Microsoft Response Point customers. SMB Phone services are created just for Response Point and the way Small Medium Business work today. Response Point makes it easy to use, grow and manage your small business communications needs. SMB Phone make it easy to obtain accompanying business quality telephone service. Order Response Point online.

For more information about SMB Phone Inc. :
Email | +1 (866) 473-0516

Lypp charges in CDN $ which means that our customers not only save money but they can feel good about supporting a local business. This would mean nothing if our service was sub-par but it’s not, we compete with the best and offer features that most providers do not.

If you are a Canadian business and have not checked out the Conference Call Service Provider for Canada, you should.

“Oren brings significant experience relating to business development, startup management & growth and strategic funding methodologies”, commented Erik Lagerway, CEO “We needed a mentor that understood the value in our API business and someone who could help use grow that business. Oren not only understands how to grow that style of business but has done it successfully in the past and is doing it today via his own startup – Mashery.”

Oren joins the existing members of the Lypp Advisory Board:

Oren Michels, CEO & Founder Mashery
Oren’s LinkedIn Profile

Oren Michels brings more than 15 years of experience to his job as CEO of Mashery. Michels has a proven track record with experience across multiple industries. Previously, Michels was vice president of business development at Feedster, where he negotiated partnerships with AOL, Real Networks and Mitsui, and oversaw the company’s activities in China. Prior to Feedster, Michels was president of Colt HR, a leading provider of outsourced benefits administration software and services to the mid market. He also co-founded WiFinder, an international provider of directory services for wi-fi public access hotspots; served as president of winebid.com, where he managed the company’s growth and helped establish it as a leading online wine auction market; served as COO of two manufacturing companies; and as CEO of The Groundlings, an entertainment production company in Hollywood.

Michels began his career as a software designer for Hughes Aircraft and has been a consultant to companies in the management, financial, marketing and information technology industries. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from UCLA’s Anderson School.

Oren joins the existing members of the Lypp Advisory Board:

Daniel Gibbons, CEO Carrie & Danielle
Dan’s LinkedIn Profile

Daniel is an experienced technology entrepreneur and marketing and social media expert. He co-founded and served as VP of Marketing for Gaboogie, which under the Lypp brand delivers quick and reliable conference call services and provides developers with the simplest and most flexible VoIP API for integrating telephony into existing applications and web services. Daniel is also the Publisher and Executive Creative Director for Shine Media Inc., publisher of the multi-award winning Orange Life Magazine, and earlier founded and later sold sandglassair Inc., which provided online campaign management and analytics software to clients including Mercedes-Benz USA, Sprint, the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority and the Alberta Government.

Daniel currently serves as a Director of Gaboogie Canada Inc. and was recently appointed as CEO for a Vancouver-based stealth startup, Carrie & Danielle a social media application for the LOHAS market.

Bruce Livingstone, EVP Getty Images, CEO & Founder iStockphoto.com, Chairman Paperthinwalls.com, Chairmain Evolvs.com
Bruce’s LinkedIn Profile

Bruce Livingstone has spent his career in the graphic design/marketing and photography industries for over 10 years. The last seven years he has acted as his own entrepreneurial incubator as the ex-President and now CEO of iStockphoto.com, iStockpro.com, Webcorelabs.com and Evolvs.com. In the past decade he worked for Image Club Graphics, Aldus Corp., Adobe Inc. and a handful of advertising agencies and pre-press facilities. Bruce founded his first media company, Frequency Labs Inc. in 1997 (now Evolvs Media Inc.). He spends most of his days in the marketing, editorial and application development departments.

Danny Robinson, Founder & Chairman Peerflix
Danny’s LinkedIn Profile

Danny has served as Chairman since the inception of Peerflix in 2004. Danny provides strategic and technical vision for Peerflix. Danny is a serial entrepreneur with several years of experience in retail distribution, information technology and executive management. Prior to Peerflix, he was co-Founder of iFind Media Systems, makers of large-format, interactive, way-finding and advertising technology for public places. Previously, he was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Spinway, Inc., a pioneer technology company that developed e-commerce and private-label ISP solutions for leading brick and mortar retailers. Under Danny’s stewardship, Spinway grew to 8 million registered users in less than one year, before being acquired by Kmart’s (NYSE:KM) BlueLight.com in 2000. Spinway investors included Mobius (then SoftBANK), Spectrum Equity, and Deutche Banc Alex Brown.