{"id":2506,"date":"2016-05-24T05:54:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T05:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2021-09-08T22:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:54:49","slug":"godaddy-hosted-pbx-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/godaddy-hosted-pbx-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy is now a Hosted PBX Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, GoDaddy jumped into the business voice space with the acquisition&nbsp;of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomvoice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FreedomVoice<\/a> for $42 Million in cash (and up to $5 Million in additional milestone payments).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;Steven Aldrich, Chief Product Officer, GoDaddy. &#8220;FreedomVoice is a natural fit with GoDaddy as we both share a common goal: to harness the power of the cloud to deliver products that fit the specific needs of small businesses, coupled with customized, empathetic customer care.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1464068776454_2243\">&#8220;At FreedomVoice our mission has always been to help companies start, run and grow, and we&#8217;re ecstatic to join GoDaddy who is just as passionate about helping small businesses succeed,&#8221; said FreedomVoice CEO Eric Thomas. &#8220;There is great synergy between our companies and our team can&#8217;t wait to get started on delivering the next generation of voice to small businesses around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/godaddy-acquires-freedomvoice-accelerate-delivery-223000204.html?utm_content=buffer4bd23&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;states that GoDaddy has 14 Million business customers. &nbsp; Doing some quick back of the envelope calculations, if they were somehow able to convert 10% of their existing customer base to voice customers, they could conceivably achieve the same scale as Ring Central ($299 Million revenue) or 8&#215;8 ($206 Million revenue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am sure that is the plan. &nbsp;But then, we all know that onboarding SMBs is not a task that lends itself to cookie cutter service (which runs deep in GoDaddy&#8217;s DNA from my own experience). &nbsp; It will be &nbsp;interesting to see how this pans out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, GoDaddy jumped into the business voice space with the acquisition&nbsp;of FreedomVoice for $42 Million in cash (and up to $5 Million in additional milestone payments). According to&nbsp;Steven Aldrich, Chief Product Officer, GoDaddy. &#8220;FreedomVoice is a natural fit with GoDaddy as we both share a common goal: to harness the power of the cloud&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}