Episode 1
Stay Connected Advantix's Smart SIM Technology | Feat. CEO, Natsha Royer Coons
In this episode, of the Side Hustle explores the world of innovative business expansion with Natasha Royer Coons, CEO of Advantix. Natasha introduces their unique Smart SIM technology, which ensures uninterrupted connectivity by automatically switching to the next available carrier when a call is dropped. The conversation covers Advantix's 24-year history, their focus on simplifying wireless carrier management, and the features of their managed connectivity experience (MCX). The episode is rich with insights on how businesses with pervasive coverage needs, such as those with mobile workforce or service technicians, can benefit from Advantix's solutions. Natasha also discusses how individuals can turn selling the Smart SIM into a profitable side hustle, ensuring simplicity, competitive pricing, and continuous support.
00:20 Meet Natasha Royer Coons
00:47 Advantix's Innovative Connectivity Solutions
02:21 Who Benefits from Advantix?
03:19 Customer Benefits and Pricing
03:49 Advantix as a Side Hustle Opportunity
04:22 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up
04:41 Get Your Hustle On
Transcript
Welcome to the side hustle where your next big adventure
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:to unlock additional streams of income
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:Whether you're a hustler looking
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:business seeking to expand throughout
innovative distribution channels,
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:you've come to the right place.
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:Erin O'Donnell: welcome.
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:I'm Erin O'Donnell and I'm
here with Natasha Royer Coons.
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:Hi Natasha.
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:Hi Erin, how are you?
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:I'm great and so excited
to learn more about you.
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:So Natasha, why don't you tell us
your name, your background, and
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:a little bit about the company
that you're at right Sure.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: So
I'm Natasha Royer Coons.
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:I'm a CEO of Advantix.
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:And, we are a technology company
and we specialize in delivering
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:connectivity.
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:Great.
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:Erin O'Donnell: So
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:tell me a little bit about that service
of delivering connect connectivity.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: sure.
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:So we have a SIM.
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:It's, we call it a smart SIM because
you're probably used to, Erin, if
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:you drop a call, you have to wait
until that carrier is available.
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:With our SIM, it's smart enough
to say, I dropped the call.
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:I'm going to go get the next
carrier and reconnect on my own.
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:So we have, 600 carriers that
we partner with globally.
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:And in the United States, we've got six.
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:And so you don't
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:lose coverage with us.
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:That's amazing.
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:that already sounds different.
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:But tell me a little bit more
about how it's different.
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:I've actually never heard
of anything like that.
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:Yes, it's really
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:great tech that we've introduced
to the business environment, but
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:clearly, everybody would have
a need for pervasive coverage.
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:What makes us different, Erin, is
we're a 24 year old company, and
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:our roots actually, are in managing
the complexity of wireless carriers.
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:So our worldview is so different, like
we don't want to create overages and
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:really complex plans and contracts,
even where we come with a real feel
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:to say our roots were in providing
simplicity to our clients who couldn't
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:deal with the wireless carriers.
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:And now that we are providing connectivity
out the gate and we're saying no overages.
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:We provide you with visibility and
control no contracts and we call this
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:or MCX, which is another first it's a
managed connectivity experience where
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:we've smashed our roots of managing.
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:Carriers complexities with delivering
a great connectivity product.
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:Erin O'Donnell: That sounds so amazing.
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:I can see why that's different.
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:It's so interesting.
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:tell me a little bit about who
is your perfect customer and why.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: Absolutely.
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:So our perfect customer is going
to be, actually a, business client
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:that has pervasive coverage issues.
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:so for example, let's just say they've
got, a lot of drivers on the road or
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:service technicians or even salespeople.
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:they really can't be out of coverage.
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:our sim will literally reconnect
and the person will never know
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:that they actually lost a session.
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:so again, anybody that's
got a tablet in their hands.
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:for a mission critical job or in
a car or in a truck or in a van,
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:Erin O'Donnell: yeah,
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:Natasha Royer Coons:
phone or a mobile scanner.
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:one of our, clients and we can't expose
the name per se, but everyone would
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:know they deliver packages to your door.
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:huh.
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:You have to scan packages, So
they can't be out of service.
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:So it's our sim and those what
they're called mobile computers.
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:Erin O'Donnell: Excellent.
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:So when you really need
to have it, you have it.
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:Yeah.
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:Cause like you said, you, at
that moment, you've got a scan.
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:You don't have time to wait until you
get coverage that's a great example.
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:Natasha, tell me a little
bit about customer benefits.
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:Absolutely.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: when you come
on to Advantix, we provide you with
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:Great competitive pricing and we
provide a single platform where
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:you can have so much visibility on
what, how you're doing on usage.
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:you can take a look at all
of your, sims out there.
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:You can tie them back to whoever you
want to tie them back to, whether it's
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:a store or a location or a driver.
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:So making the, information, very useful.
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:Erin O'Donnell: That's wonderful.
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:so finally, tell me why Advantix
would make a good side hustle.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: Oh, that's
such an awesome question, Erin.
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:So we make it really simple.
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:It is our goal in life to
make connectivity in the
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:wireless experience simple.
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:And so the same for the side hustlers
that say, I want to get into the
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:business of selling the smart SIM to
any business That does not want to have
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:coverage issues and we will help And
all of a sudden before you know it your
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:side hustle will grow And monthly what,
we affectionately call mailbox money.
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:Erin O'Donnell: Yeah.
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:Natasha Royer Coons: It arrives.
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:Erin O'Donnell: I love that concept.
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:Let's
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:Natasha Royer Coons: keep building it.
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:Erin O'Donnell: That's so amazing.
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:Natasha, anything else that you'd like
to share with our audience as we wrap up?
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:Natasha Royer Coons: I
think, Erin, that's about it.
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:I would say, Hey, let's.
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:Let's go after that side hustle together.
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:we're going to have a lot of fun.
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:We're going to make some great money
together and let's just get started.
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:That sounds wonderful.
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:Thank you so much to Natasha
Royer Coons from Advantix.
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:Thank you, Erin.
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