Valentine’s Day is coming up, and we know what pressure this puts on all you men out there. You know you have to come up with something special, but WHAT? Flowers are good, but what’s the point of spending $50 on something that dies in a few days? Jewelry is nice, but what if she doesn’t like it? And clothes? Don’t even go there.
Men, if you’re looking for something special for your sweetheart that you know she’ll love and ladies, if you’ve decided to take matters into your own hands—never fear. The MTC crew has great Valentine’s Day gift ideas that are sure to be a big hit with your honey. And when you choose any of the following gifts ideas, we’ll throw in a heart shaped box of candy so you REALLY look like a hero!
1) How about a brand new phone for your sweetheart (or yourself)?
We’ve got three brand new Nex-Tech Wireless phones that are sure to please. Try the Motorola VE440–FREE with a two year contract! Or, check out the cool new touch screen LG 700 Volt for just $39.99 with a two year contract. Or, if you’re looking for a higher end smart phone, try the brand new HTC Snap. It’s a mobile data powerhouse, with other cool features like a 2 Megapixel camera and a music player for just $99.99 with a two year contract! And did we mention we’ll give you $200 PER LINE to switch to Nex-Tech Wireless?
2) All pink, red and white cell phone accessories are HALF OFF through Valentine’s Day!
Great accessories like covers and cases can make your old phone seem like new–for just a few dollars! If you’re intested in a new cover or case as the perfect Valentine’s gift, give us a call at 897-6200 so we can check our inventory for your phone model. You’ll get any red, pink or white phone accessory for half price, and we’ll even throw in the candy to make the perfect gift!
3) Upgrade or add ANY new MTC service through Valentine’s Day and we’ll give you a free box of candy!
MTC offers all of the services you need including new, faster Internet speeds for new low prices, all the Digital TV channels you want, including HDTV and DVRs, and amazing phone features like Voice Mail that you can actually control online. Upgrade your Internet to a faster speed, add a movie channel, or choose a bundle for more savings before Valentine’s Day–and we’ll give you a box of Valentine’s candy to complete the package.
Did you know that over 8,000 people visit our web site every month? Last week alone there were 1,913 visitors and 408 unique visitors to our site!
What does this mean for you? Well…if you’re a local business, just think of the number of eyeballs that could be seeing your ad on our web site every week! In fact, about 22% of our visitors say they stop by every day to see what’s new, check mail, or pay their bill online.
We are currently working on our 2010 MTC telephone directory, and we’re offering incredible Internet advertising deals for any of our local businesses who take an ad in our directory.
Sky’s the limit! You can change out your ad monthly, you can make your ad a coupon (which our customers would surely appreciate!), or you can even link to your Facebook page. For just $20 a month, you can snag one of our exclusive advertising spots. We are limiting our online advertising this year to six advertisers, and once we have all our online advertisers signed up, we’ll be moving the ads to the right hand column of our site so they are more prominent.
If you are interested in one of our online advertiser spots, please contact us before February 15th!
For some of us, our cell phone is the main way people can reach us. But for many people, keeping that cell phone number private and unpublished is also important. So, we’re giving you the choice!
We’d like to give you the opportunity to publish your cell phone number in the upcoming 2010 MTC Directory. And for our Nex-Tech Wireless and Wireless Internet customers who live outside Little River, you also have the opportunity to publish your landline phone number in our directory.
If you would like to publish your cell phone number or your landline phone number (for customers who don’t live in Little River) in the 2010 MTC Directory, you can either:
- Call our office at 897- 6200 and give us your listing information.
- Send an e-mail to jsteffan@lrmutual.com with the name you want listed and your cell phone number.
- Click on this page, fill out the information and submit!
The more listings we have, the more valuable our directory is to our customers. We appreciate your help!
New Year’s Resolutions
By · CommentsI am the most boring New Year’s Resolution maker you’ve ever met, because mine are the exact same every year: lose 5 pounds, spend more time with family and friends, get organized, and spend less and save more.
If you’re like me, this is the time of year when I go through my budget, see where I can save a little cash, and start clipping more coupons! If you are going through your budget and trying to find new ways to cut expenses, switching your cellular service might be the answer. Really. Cell phone bills are a major expense in most people’s households. If you can save even $10 or $15 a month off what you’re spending now, it can really add up over the year.
Nex-Tech Wireless is not only less expensive than other cell phone providers, but the service is top-notch. You get the best local coverage, plus superior nationwide coverage on the Sprint network. Plus, we’re here to help (in Little River, Lyons and Sterling) if you need us. And, Nex-Tech Wireless will give you $200 PER NUMBER when you switch your cell phone service. This bonus is meant to help you pay off your current contract, but if you’ve got Alltel/Verizon or any other cellular provider and you’re not in contract? Well that extra $200 per number sure could help pay off those Christmas bills!
For all of the details on plans and phones check out Nex-TechWireless’s web site, or stop by any of our three locations. We’ll be happy to help you do an apples to apples comparison of your current cellular service. It could be the easiest money you’ve ever saved!
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January’s Deal of the Month: $25 worth of FREE Internet!
By · CommentsHappy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family, and are staying warm and toasty inside (-2 degrees on Thursday? BRRRRR!)
If you’re like most of us, you have a whole list of New Year’s Resolutions for this year. And probably somewhere in the top 5 is “saving money.” If saving money is on your list, we’ve made it easy for you to get off to a great start. Starting January 1st, we lowered Internet prices across the board, and have increased our speeds on all of our Internet packages*. This means, in some cases, you can actually more than triple your speed and pay the SAME price! See below:
If you’re serious about saving money this year, there are hundreds of great online bargain sites and blogs that tell you where the good deals are, and how to get them. (Try www.kcpennypinchinmama.com to see what I mean!) However, as you know, to truly be effective in your online bargain hunting efforts, you need a really fast Internet connection. This is where we want to help!
If you’re a current Internet customer and you upgrade to a faster Internet speed by 2/15, we’ll give you a $25 credit on your first bill! So, say you’re a Little River customer with a Basic Internet connection. If you upgrade to Enhanced Internet, you’ll more than triple your download speed to a blazing 5 Mbps, without paying a cent more per month. AND, we’ll give you a $25 credit on your bill!
Or, if you know someone who is looking for a high speed Internet connection at a great price, send them our way. We will also give any NEW Internet customers, either in Little River or outside Little River, a $25 credit on their first bill when they sign-up for service! With prices starting at just $29.95 a month, this is an incredble deal!
To schedule your upgrade, or to schedule your new Internet installation, give us a call, or send us an e-mail. Happy surfing!
*As some of you have experienced, there have been some recent issues beyond our control that have caused our Internet speeds to be slow at times. We want to reassure you that we’re aware of the problem, and are doing everything in our power to correct this issue quickly so you receive consistently faster speeds as soon as possible!
And the winner is….
By · CommentsHappy Monday and a big thank you to everyone who commented on our post last week. We used a random number generator at www.random.org to choose the winner of the MP3 player and it is….Commenter #1- MaryLou Hertado. Congratulations MaryLou! Stop by our office in Little River Monday through Thursday this week and pick up your MP3 player. Or, if you need to make other plans to pick up your prize, just call our office and we’ll make sure to get it to you!
FREE MP3 Player Giveaway!
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If you’re looking for a last minute gift, we’ve got one that’s FREE! This week, we’ll be giving a way a free Coby 512 MB Sports MP3 player to one lucky MTC customer. With included earphones and a sports arm band, it’s the perfect stocking stuffer for any of the music lovers on your list.
So how do you win? Just post the one thing YOU would like most for Christmas this year in the comments section of this post. Comments will be closed as of midnight on Sunday, December 20th. The winner will be chosen randomly from all commenters on Monday, December 21st and the winner will be announced Monday morning!
To comment, just click on the number next to to the word “comments” right under the title of this post. Type in your comment, and then “submit.” Don’t forget to include your name so we know who to give the prize to if you win! If your comment doesn’t show up right away, don’t worry. All comments have to be approved (to avoid spammers) before they are posted, which may take a little extra time.
In fact, please feel free to comment on any posts that we put up. The more interaction and conversation we can have with our customers, the better. Good luck!
Manage your Voice Mail online!
By · CommentsIf you’re an MTC Little River local phone customer, you have an easy way to manage your phone online that you may not even know about!
Do you see that little button at the top of the page? The one that says “Manage your phone features and voice mail?” Just click that button, put in your ten-digit telephone number and your password, you can start managing all your phone services, including Voice Mail, online. It’s easy and fun!
Send us an e-mail or give us a call and we’ll set you up a password so you can get started!
Since we’re offering FREE Voice Mail this week, let me show you how you can manage your Voice Mail service online. When you login, the first screen you’ll see looks like this:
You can see right on the main screen if you have any voice mail messages. If you do, you can click the link, listen to them right on your computer, and even save them as a WAV file! But this is just the beginning.
If you click on the “Call Manager” tab (see below), you’ll see that you can even set your phone to send your calls directly to Voice Mail if you’re busy or don’t want to be bothered by a ringing phone. As you can see from the screen shot , you can even set your phone to send your calls to another phone (like your cell phone) so you can take them with you when you leave the house if you have MTC’s Call Forwarding feature. Important tip: Whenever you choose an action, make sure you hit the “Apply” button at the bottom or the change won’t be made!
Finally, you can easily set how long you want your phone to ring before it goes to Voice Mail. Have a hard time getting to the phone? Set it for 45 seconds. Don’t want people to wait long before going to Voice Mail? Set it for 15 seconds!
If you click on the “Settings” tab and then the “Messaging” tab, you can even have your Voice Mail messages automatically forward to any e-mail address you choose (see below)! So if you’re at work but want to make sure you get important calls from home, you can forward your calls to your e-mail address so you get them in real time! (And don’t forget to hit “Apply!”)
You can also send notification to other phone numbers letting you know that you have a Voice Mail message. For example, say you don’t want to forward all your calls to your cell phone because you don’t want to be bothered, but you do want to know if you get any important messages. Just send notification to your cell phone when you get a Voice Mail message!
Managing your Voice Mail online is easy, FREE, and can revolutionize the way you use your phone! If you have any questions, please give us a call. Otherwise, we encourage you to access the call management portal and play around with the various features it offers!
Deal of the week: FREE Voice Mail!
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If you didn’t know, MTC now offers Voice Mail service for your home or business phone! And not only does our Voice Mail service allow you to take professional messages while you’re gone AND while you’re on the phone, but you can also listen to your messages online and even have them sent to your e-mail box!
We think our new Voice Mail service will make your life so much easier (especially during the holidays!) that we want you to try it for FREE.
If you call anytime this week, we’ll give you Voice Mail service FREE for the first month, with NO activation charge! Voice Mail, including online management, is just $4.00 per month after your first free month.
Or, for an even better value, we offer a Calling Feature package that includes Voice Mail (with Live Message Screening), Caller ID, Call Waiting, Caller ID on Call Waiting and two other features of your choice for just $12.00!
Choose Call Forwarding so you can forward all your home phone calls to your cell phone when you’re on the go, and three-way calling so you and your family can all get on a call to plan those holiday gatherings–and you’ve got an entire package of features that gives you complete control of your calls for just $12.00 a month!
If you think this package would make YOUR life easier, just give us a call anytime this week and you can try it FREE for the first month with NO activation charge!
As always, if you have any questions, please give us a call or send us an e-mail and we’ll be glad to help.
If you’ve got an older phone, like a Spyder or older BlackBerry model, we’ve got just what you need to make it new again! We may not carry your phone anymore, but we’ve still got a wide selection of covers, cases, chargers and other accessories for many of the phones we no longer carry!
This week only, get covers and cases for any phone we no longer carry for just $5!
And as a bonus, take 25% off ANY cover, case or charger we carry (home and travel)!
If you have an older phone, you may want to call first to check on our selection of cases and chargers, as they vary by model. Or, stop by any of our three locations in Little River, Lyons or Sterling to browse our full inventory and pick up one for yourself or anyone on your holiday list!
