James Allen walks through TextMagic's international numbers, call forwarding, message scheduling, and contacts setup. The tutorial covers purchasing numbers, setting up greetings, and composing messages, then wraps with a call to visit JamesAllenCoaching.com for more.
Okay, so a couple common questions that come up are the challenge with international numbers. Some people who live— like, I'm in the United States, and some people, you know, in other countries across the pond, they don't really want to text in a number. So there's a couple of different options that you can do. The other question that people have is, what happens if someone calls the TextMagic number? And here's just just a quick rundown. So if you go down to Services right here, you can go to, um, Sender Settings. I think that's the one. Yeah. So I have 310-2055, um, 657-310-2055. That's my number. My TextMagic number. You can also get a Canada number or a number in France, you know, shared number, meaning other people have them, which is kind of interesting. I don't really know exactly how that works with a shared number. But these are just a couple other features. You know, you can pick, let's say that you live in Belgium. I have a client in Belgium, actually. You can just have a Belgium number. Or you can have a Germany number, Hong Kong number. If you do a lot of business in any one of these areas, you can purchase a number there, you know, and it'll be another, I think, $4 a month. So if we click Buy Number, just kind of see what happens. Yeah, searching for the available numbers. Anything that would be available in the United States And yeah, you can pick different area codes because it just kind of gives you a number right away. But this would be another number. So it's an available number for 707, which is my area code, California. So yeah, call forwarding, you know, you can pick it, you can activate that number. Um, see if it charges me or not. No biggie. Forwarding inbound calls. So you can pick your number and then you can type in whatever your number is. You can even do a greeting, which is pretty cool. You can do no one. If it calls me, it does not go to my phone number. If you are a coach or consultant or anything like that, it can be helpful to have it forwarded to your number because people, you know, you're keeping it personal. That's the idea with this. So when you send out a message, you say, "Yeah, let's hop on a phone call," and someone just calls you, then you can keep that call really short and then say, "Hey, let's reconnect. I'll send you my calendar link and then we'll book another call." And then you send them your calendar link where you just give them a call at whatever your time is, and then you just call them on your regular cell phone number because you do get charged for the amount of minutes that you spend on these numbers with the TextMagic number, I mean. So if you go down to numbers like we are down here, then activate forwarding. Bang. And yeah, if you just go down to numbers, so we can, you know, click compose just to keep it fresh. Services. Go down to numbers. And then you can buy your new number here. You can enable your landline. You can come over here, forwarding calls, activate forwarding. You can click on actions, deactivate the forwarding. You know, forwarding settings, that'll take you right back over here. And then you can decide how, what number you want that to go to. Oh yeah, it went down. I guess I did pay for that. Oh, I gotta fix that. So yeah, that's what it is. If you have an office, then you can actually, you can have the forwarding go straight over to your office too, which is totally cool. So Lots of different options that you can use, but the biggest ones are what we talked about, you know, composing, sending your messages here. That's, that's it. You know, that's really it. Knowing how to have your contacts, watching the other videos that I put up, using that one, having a playlist just so it's easy for you so you can kind of break it down into whatever pieces you needed. If you want to study just what do you say about, you know, sending a message, what were the kind of points and tips? Scheduling messages, it's really straightforward. It's just a matter of you kind of playing with it. I would say that, you know, this composing it, having tidied up lists and contacts, and then really getting your keywords down, those are the biggest things. There's probably a lot more you can do with TextMagic, but those are like the biggest pieces right there, having your, your keyword setup. That's it. And then sending them out to your list and just the consistency of reaching out to people, nurturing those relationships. Texting is very powerful. Don't forget that email is not dead. I firmly believe that email is not dead because people still have huge businesses with just email. Okay, that is the TextMagic tutorial. I hope you learned something. I hope it was valuable for you. If you want to learn more about building your business, then what you can do is go to my website, JamesAllenCoaching.com. Coaching.com, and there's a free workshop on that website just for you that you can check out, you can try out. And if you really have a dream for building a business, you know, monetizing your passions without losing the passion, just really loving the work that you do, the workshop is a great place to start. And then keeping an eye out, watching the YouTube videos. If you enjoy these videos that I put out, this is the first like how-to tutorial video that I've done. But I figured it was necessary for Tax Magic. But if you enjoy the videos that I put out, just stay consistent with it because that's what I'm always talking about. Let's make money doing the things that we love to do. That's what really matters. And I believe that when we do that, the more that we live into our authentic self, the more happy we are, you know, the more joyful our life is and everything, and the bigger impact that we can make. And that's where we make our own MPI, our own massive positive impact. Thank you for sticking around. Watching the TextMagic tutorial. If you like these tutorial videos, then let me know in the comments. Say, James, this is amazing. Say, James, go back to your old ways of what you were doing with just a video facing you and the pictures and all that. But you let me know, okay? I want to hear your opinion. Let me know if you've used TextMagic. Let me know if you have another software that you prefer over TextMagic. If this is too complicated, if you like it more, you know, just let me know in the comments. I want to hear from you because I like the engagement. Okay, this is James Allen, peacing out, and I will see you in the next playlist or the next video. So have an awesome day, go forth and prosper, my friend, and get out there and make your own massive positive impact. See you in the next one.
