Congratulations to Salem A on being our 20,000th member

Zenofon just signed up its 20,000th member. Salem is the lucky member who gets the prize of $100 just for being the 20,000th member. Congratulations Salem!

Zenofon also gave away $200 total commission to everyone who referred Salem. Since Salem was referred by a total of 11 people, the following people divided $199.99 in prize money:

patient zero $0.19
ofira m $0.39
ari $0.78
sukhi $1.56
cheapindiacalls $3.13
vamsi $6.25
TrialFreeMinutes $12.50
vicky $25
gm $50
voipsms $100

Conversation on Facebook with member #19388 vincent.

Vincent no shakin
10:46amBaruch do you know when your friends makes their first call you get a small credit or when they sign up
10:47amVincent nope
10:47amBaruch check it out
10:47amVincent jst tellem abt d service
10:47amBaruch ok cool looking forward to seeing you get some people you will see how fun it is
10:47amVincent na wahALA
10:47amBaruch you came from eddie
10:48amVincent no wahala! sure
he told me and he was a good sales guy
10:48amBaruch yep and now everytime you buy he gets 10% and everytime people you refer buy he gets 5%
10:48amVincent ic
10:49amBaruch and everytime people they refer buy he gets 2.5% and he can login and see
10:49amVincent some credit Haaa?
10:49amBaruch how it grows yep can be credit or cash
10:49amVincent like pyramiod
10:49amBaruch yep but people misunderstand pyramid we do it with mathematics based off of Zeno of elea
10:50amVincent yeah did dat shit some time ago.
10:50amBaruch we give away referral fee of 20% and we split it up
10:50amVincent okk
10:50amBaruch 1+1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16 so we know we giving away 20% and math makes sense
10:51amVincent cool!
10:51amBaruch insted of just giving away 20% to first guy
10:51amVincent ba wahala
10:51amBaruch we give it to everyone so everyone likes im at top but from commission i dont make really antying when person is 10 away because its like .000001 on a $10 sale but its still fun

Terms and Conditions of the third Zenofon referral contest starting March 15th.

Last contest winners. This can be you next time!

Want extra money?

Why not focus and try to win the third Zenofon referral contest.

Zenofon is giving away $649.999,999 ($649 dollars and 99.9999 cents) to the people who win the Zenofon referral contest giveaway over the next month, starting March 15th at 12 AM est.

Below are the terms and conditions which Zenofon LLC reserves the right to modify at our sole discretion:

1) Zenofon gives out recurring referral fees when you refer new people, and when those people refer new people, and when those people call for the first time or purchase minutes.
The person who earns the most commission fees from 12:00:00am E.S.T. March 15th, 2010 until 11:59:59 pm E.S.T. April 14th wins the contest.

( If you have questions about how our commission system works, click here for our FAQ and help section.)

2) The person who earns the most commission wins the contest and gets $250 dollars, the second runner-up gets $125, the third runner-up gets $62.50. The fourth runner-up gets half of $62.50, etc.,. Even the person who comes in 50th place will earn something, although the figure will be extremely small.

3) Additionally, as a bonus, Zenofon is giving the 10th place winner $10, the person in 20th place $20 , the person in 30th place $30, the person in 40th place $40 and the person in 50th place $50 to split with everyone who referred him. Everyone is eligible to split the funds or win this bonus money, including previous contests winners, and employees of Zenofon, including even “patient zero”.

4) Contest award will be paid via PayPal or check by December 31, 2009, to the registered Zenofon user address in U.S. Dollars.

5) All contest award payouts can be withheld at our discretion if we suspect fraud or shenanigans. The decision of Zenofon will be final

6) The contest is void where prohibited by law, and any taxes if any shall be the sole responsibility of the contest winner.

7) The contest may be terminated at any time.

8- This contest is open to Zenophytes (Zenofon members) in good standing at the time of the termination of this contest.

9) Zenofon will be posting updates on who has referred the most people in the Zenofon.com/news page and/or on the Zenofon.com facebook page. These updates are meant for reference purpose only and may contain numerical errors. If an error was made, Zenofon is under no contractual obligation to pay out the figure written in error and can adjust the numbers at any time.

10) You must be 18 years or older to participate in the contest.

11) Employees of Zenofon LLC and members of their immediate families are ineligible to participate in any Zenofon LLC commission contest.

12) Within 7 days of the conclusion of the contest, Zenofon will credit the account of the contest winners. The winning prize can be transferred for phone credit or be used to request a check when the commission account owed is greater than $75.

Who will be Zenofon’s 20,000th member? $300 giveaway

Zenofon currently has almost 19,900 members.
To incentivize our current members to refer people we are offering a quick contest. Whoever signs up as the 20,000th member will receive $100 in free credit. Additionally, whoever refers that person that signs up as the 20,000 member, will receive $100 in free credit as well. Zenofon will also divide $100 in free credit, in the typical Zenofon manner, to the people who referred the person who signed up the 20,000 member.
Good luck referring people and let me know if you have any questions.
Baruch Herzfeld
President Zenofon

Zenofon’s rate to call Kenya will go up from 5 cents to 8 cents a minute effective March 18th

Zenofon’s rate to call Kenya will go up from 5 cents to 8 cents a minute effective March 18th, (10 days from now).

The 5 cent/minute rate was a promotion; we were selling Zenofon minutes to Kenya without profit to introduce you to Zenofon.

The new rate is 8 cents/minute. There are no extra fees such as connection fees, monthly fees or expiration fees. What you pay for is what you get. It’s a simple concept we don’t know why other phone companies don’t do it that way. Additionally, Zenofon does not bill in full minute increments. Other companies, especially prepaid cards you buy in the store, charge you in increments of 1 minute or even 3 minute increments. Zenofon bills you in increments of 6 seconds after the first 30 seconds. Zenofon is the cheapest, most honest way to call Kenya, and you probably realize that because you are all customers.

We would like to thank all of our Kenyan customers. Zenofon grows by word of mouth marketing, and as of now we have had most success with the Kenyan market. I had one Kenyan friend who told a few friends, and now we probably have 1000-2000 Kenyan customers. I am excited about meeting you all personally one day, and growing Zenofon together.

If you have any questions on how to refer friends to Zenofon – they don’t have to be Kenyan – they can be from anywhere – not just Kenya, send me an email at Baruch@zenofon or call me on the customer service number. The people who have referred people are generating recurring commissions every day, without having to do any additional work. As your friends, and their friends, and their friends, keep using Zenofon, you will make recurring commissions, that you can turn into telephone credit or that you can even use to request a check.

Thank you once again for your patronage,
Baruch Herzfeld
President Zenofon

The concept of Facebook sharing and re-tweeting and how it applies to Zenofon.

One of our goals with Zenofon is to be able to track all information that is spread on the web. When you find an article, video or a product that is interesting, you share it, either via FB, twitter, email etc.
Previously large media distribution companies such as record labels, TV stations, book publishers controlled the content. Nowadays, someone can make a video themselves put it up on Youtube or wherever and have the project go viral.
Almost as important as the person who created the concept, is the person who initially shares the concept with his friends and their friends etc. Facebook, which is the platform I feel most comfortable with, has started allowing people to track links by using a “shared by” feature. So when you share, from someone else’s link it shows that you saw it initially from them. Facebook does not go past the initial shared link, to say the person who shared it to the person who shared it with them, etc.
All of this sharing has financial repercussions. A story that is shared generates views and ad revenue. A product that is shared generates profit to the vendor. Zenofon’s concept, although just in infancy at this moment, allows you track the sharing of links indefinitely, with a system that fairly divides revenue back to the original sharer. Hopefully, we are able to expand our initial concept, which as of now, only sells telephony products, into the idea of sharing ideas as well.
Click here for the article about re-sharing on Facebook

18,902 Zenophytes – see picture below.

As of today, we have 18,902 people who signed up for Zenofon services. The breakdown of the referral levels is above. (There is a slight discrepancy between the 18,902 members and the 18,702 showing up in the above picture which represents people who signed up and had to be disabled due to abuse). Not all of these people are minutes purchasing customers, some of them just signed up and never tried the service, but they still show up in the picture.

Zenofon plans now to lower certain rates to certain destinations to generate more interest in the product. We still have to fix our sound quality to many destinations, but the underlying marketing idea, of tracking word of mouth referral forever, is fun and sound.

Zenofon has never advertised in a traditional manner. All I did was tell 73 friends about the business. From there it spread out thanks to everyone’s assistance. Zenofon’s, and my challenge as the president is to use this concept to grow exponentially within the phone business and into other products.

Latest Zenofon Stats – Almost 18,000 members

Zenofon currently has almost 18,000 members. Most of the members are clustered around the 7th level. We expect that to change as more people in the lower levels figure out how good Zenofon is.
We go 25 members deep. Thats incredible. Every single person who has joined, has joined based on a client referral.
Check out the stats below.

Results for second commission contest

The Zenofon commission contest is now over. Please check the below spreadsheet to see where you ended up in the contest.
Remember the people in place 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 were given bonus prizes.
The commission will be credited to your account shortly. Congratulations to all you winners.
Baruch Herzfeld
President Zenofon

click here for the results.

New contest leaders

Below find the leaders for the contest ending Dec. 6th 2009.
Some things to remember.
1) Ari and Ofira are not eligible because they won last time.
2) The people in places 10,20,30,40, and 50 are eligible for bonus funds. Their lines should be highlighted.
3) This page was last updated November 30th, 2009 and newer commissions may not be reflected.
4) If you are not sure of your user ID, email support and we will tell you.

Click here to see commission contest leaders.