Rather than spend time updating the Adsense code for Calls.in.th we looked at the traffic stats and realized that this site has had it’s day.

Calls In Thailand was the first web venture we created and was once responsible for generating profits of over $5,000 USD per month. 

The site was written in a now-discontinued CMS package called TTCMS and we’ll always remember the fun we had with the main web designer who had a nervous breakdown as he worked with us.  One memorable conversation was when the man’s wife packed her bags and left him as he was communicating on messenger to us.

Calls in Thailand was created in 2001 and it’s a site we were very proud of.  In 2001 CMS scripts were quite rare and our site really was cutting-edge for its time.  We generated money by referring visitors to our United World Telecom website (where we earnt residual income on member’s telephone calls.  We also had a very exciting time pioneering VoIP calling-cards in Thailand - many years before this became legal :o).

Unfortunately we awoke one day to discover that the Thai telecom monopoly had decided to compete against low-cost providers like us.  Overnight they slashed their call prices from about $1.50 per minute to just 35c.  We were offering calls for about 60c a minute and we couln’t in good conscience keep recommending the services we offered to our clients.  We still retained some very large clients who preferred working with us and needed the anonymity that our callback service provided but our client base dropped from many hundreds to about a dozen over the space of a month.

To overcome this challenge we then commissioned our United World Telecom website to market the same international callback service but to a worldwide market.  This business has generated residual income over $500 every month with zero work for about 4 years now and will be expanded in the coming few months.

We have now redirected calls.in.th to our United World Telecom website.