{"id":4830,"date":"2006-09-30T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/vonage-hp.html"},"modified":"2006-09-30T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T17:19:22","slug":"vonage-hp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/vonage-hp.html","title":{"rendered":"Vonage &#038; HP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an offer that can&#8217;t be beat. In this case it can&#8217;t be beat by any cable companies. HP has <a href=\"http:\/\/voipservices.tmcnet.com\/feature\/articles\/2874-vonage-hp-save-customers-up-50-percent-phone.htm\">teamed up<\/a> with Vonage to give a special offer to purchasers of HP or Compaq computers. Why can&#8217;t the cable companies match it? Simply because at the moment cable companies can only offer service in their areas. So this concept wouldn&#8217;t work if you didn&#8217;t have cable service &#8212; and didn&#8217;t want to switch. It also wouldn&#8217;t work if you lived in an area the cable company didn&#8217;t cover.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many other similar marketing ideas the company can come up with. I guess the obvious is doing the same with Lenovo and Dell. Then there are myriad e-tailers. Vonage is already <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/vonage\/vonage-promotion-with-amazon.asp\">working with<\/a> Amazon but I get the feeling eBay won&#8217;t be working closely with Vonage any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an offer that can&#8217;t be beat. In this case it can&#8217;t be beat by any cable companies. HP has teamed up with Vonage to give a special offer to purchasers of HP or Compaq computers. Why can&#8217;t the cable companies match it? Simply because at the moment cable companies can only offer service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[487,594,538,233,238],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}