What is a logo?

What is a logo? The logo of company expresses the company’s ideas, belief and values. It identifies the company without any explanation. As the years change so does the logo, it’s a sign of growth. The changing of a logo usually is for the appeal of the customers, the era and better representation of the company. At CallDirek we have had 5 changes so far from 2004 until today. Looking at these logos from the first years to now, we realize how great this company has become.

2004-2005

The first CallDirek logo when the company was run in the living room of the founders Michel Francis and Charles Gentil’s mothers home.

2006

As they moved to a small office in south beach sharing the space with a printing company the orange and blue is now CallDirek’s official colors. The cellphone with a circle around and Direk has white lines running through it.

2007

CallDirek moved into an office of their own in Coral Gables and the eliminated the circle and made the phone bigger.

2008

CallDirek moves to coconut grove at the Renzi, the white line running through Direk are eliminated and prepaid long distance is added to the logo.

2009 -2012

Calldirek moves to a different office but still remains at the Renzi in Coconut Grove. The Calldirek Blue has changed the phone is now one solid color. The prepaid long distance is in black. This brand is now recognized by Inc. 500/5000 as CallDirek made the list of the best upcoming companies in America.

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$5 CallDirek weekend

Recharge your account this Friday through Sunday for $20 to $50 and you will receive $5 FREE! you always get more with CallDirek the best call you can make. 

4 reasons to get Auto-Recharge

CallDirek Auto-Recharge is an option offered to all customers. 4 reasons why to get it!

1. Simple and Easy. once in your account setup your billing information and click on auto-recharge. 

2. Control. decide when your account should be recharged and for how much. you can choose to recharge your account when your balance nears $2, $5, $10 or $20. and recharge your account for $10, $20, $50 or $100. your in control of your account.

3. Talk. you will never have to hang up to recharge ever again. 

4. Its CallDirek the best call you can make!

A Special Thanks

A SPECIAL THANKS FROM CALLDIREK

Monday November 26^th, 2012

CallDirek would like to thank all of our agents for selling and promoting our name, the staff for an extraordinary work day in and day out. 7 years ago the company was just an idea in the living room of the founders home, with dedication, perseverance and hard work we now have over 340,000 customers, over 100,000 agents from US, Canada and Spain. The company could not have grown this far and this much without our customers. Words cannot express our gratitude; we thank you for your continuous support, and business. We will continue to improve and provide more facilitated ways for you to reach your family and friends abroad.

About CallDirek:

CallDirek is in the business of providing reliable, affordable telecom services for business and residential customers in the United States and abroad. We provide an alternative to phone cards with a PIN-less service, so go ahead and throw out those cards once and for all. This service is available online through our website or at numerous of our agent stores across the United States, Canada and Spain. Convenience is the key when servicing our customers, the customers may even call our customer service line and recharge their accounts in a matter of minutes, and once the funds have been added to the account they can be used immediately. We even provide top-ups which enable people working and living abroad to instantly recharge mobile phones for family and friends back home. CallDirek® has many mobile operators for instance Digicel, Voila, Movistar, Claro, Orange, AT&T, Lime, Boost mobile and 150 more top-ups. All products are available with the CallDirek® platform. We have over 100,000 retail outlets and distribution channels here in the United States, Canada and also Spain. Servicing different parts of the world such as Haiti, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Africa, and many more, we make sure our customers can stay in touch with their families abroad.

Ianik Drouin

Social Media Executive

Ianik.drouin@calldirek.com

CallDirek donates to Kako's Smile Project Haiti

MIAMI, FL, October 4, 2012 – In support of the SMILE PROJECT HAITI, CallDirek has donated 17 computers to a school in Haiti, which will serve for a new computer classroom. The founder of the SMILE PROJECT HAITI Jacque “Kako” Bourjolie has been helping kids around the country through his foundation for many years. The foundation holds fundraisers, or comedy shows around the country to raise the awareness of privileged to help out the less privileged. Thanks to the SMILE PROJECT HAITI, many children now have homes, clothes, books and even schools to attend. The future of Haiti is in the hands of the youth and the SMILE PROJECT HAITI would like to see the kids they are helping be the leaders of tomorrow.    

About Smile Project Haiti

The SMILE PROJECT HAITI is a movement dedicated to giving back to the community. By reaching out to the children, sharing our hope within their communities we can make a difference in many lives and we will encourage a more harmonious environment. SMILE will bring hope, relief and joy allowing one child at a time to dare to dream for a brighter future. We are launching one project per month, targeting a specific need in the community. The aim of this campaign will be to teach privileged children to help underprivileged ones. We will visit schools to talk to students about the circumstances that many children find themselves in. We want to show the children how to get involved and how they can help each other. The basis of Project SMILE's vision is one child helping another.

About CallDirek

Since 2004, CallDirek® has revolutionized the telecom industry by pioneering the PINLESS ILD industry servicing our clients' needs to move away from hard cards.

CallDirek® provides a Pinless ILD service that works in over 50 countries and International Mobile Top Ups servicing over 150 mobile operators. CallDirek® is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unitel, Inc., a Florida based corporation, Unitel is an FCC licensed and accredited Telecommunications Company. Our sophisticated IP technology throughout our global network provides clients with services that are affordable and reliable. Our goal is to help facilitate and improve communication for you, your family and friends.

For more information about CallDirek contact the company at http://calldirek.com/

CallDirek®

Ianik Drouin

Social Media & Communications Executive

Email: Ianik.drouin@calldirek.com

Phone: 305.434.7072 ext. 309

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Remit Synergy Joins CallDirek

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Remit Synergy Joins CallDirek Family

MIAMI, FL, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 – CallDirek ®, the leading service provider for pin-less long-distance calling and mobile top ups, announced today a new partnership with Remit Synergy. By partnering with CallDirek, Remit Synergy will now have access to sell CallDirek products such as pin-less minutes and International Mobile Top Ups. Based out of Africa Remit Synergy has helped many companies and customers. Their white label cloud hosted payment platform allows Money Service Businesses to transmit to countries throughout Africa and around the globe. The features Remit Synergy brings to its clients are Cash pick-up, cash to bank account, cash to prepaid card and now with CallDirek, Mobile Top Ups and Pin-less minutes to phones.

About Remit Synergy

Remit Synergy is a business-to-business company providing Money Serving Businesses and others access to the African, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Chinese markets through its innovative, white label payment platform. Headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, Remit Synergy also operates a call center in Darkar, Senegal and a Data Center in New York. No matter the location, Remit Synergy has the staff necessary to ensure that all of your business needs are met with care and discretion.

About CallDirek

Since 2004, CallDirek® has revolutionized the telecom industry by pioneering the PINLESS ILD industry servicing our clients' needs to move away from hard cards.

CallDirek® provides a Pinless ILD service that works in over 50 countries and International Mobile Top Ups servicing over 150 mobile operators. CallDirek® is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unitel, Inc., a Florida based corporation, Unitel is an FCC licensed and accredited Telecommunications Company. Our sophisticated IP technology throughout our global network provides clients with services that are affordable and reliable. Our goal is to help facilitate and improve communication for you, your family and friends.

For more information about CallDirek contact the company at http://calldirek.com/

CallDirek®

Ianik Drouin

Social Media & Communications Executive

Email: Ianik.drouin@calldirek.com

Phone: 305.434.7072 ext. 309

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Happy Father's Day!!!

CallDirek would like to wish all the fathers in Haiti a Happy Father’s Day! And to celebrate this wonderful day with all of you CallDirek is having a weekend long promotion by giving 25% bonus minutes on all recharges of $15 to $50. Always stay close to your family with CallDirek, and with our new rates it’s never been easier!

You always get more with CallDirek, the best call you can make!

CallDirek at Compas Fest

The weekend of the 18^th of May has to be the most exhausting weekend of year for us here at CallDirek. Calldirek sponsors every year the biggest Haitian festival in Miami Compas Festival. Tuesday a couple of days before the event promo bags were getting filled with T-shirts, pens, bottle opener key chains and more. We rented a huge van to transport all of our equipment for the big day compass fest. On Thursday we attended the Compas Fest press conference, where artists like Mika Ben, Carimi, Gazman Coulè, La Rose and more spoke and as usual reporters asked those tough questions. Some of the artists felt a little insulted when a reporter asked them how they felt that “Compas Music” wasn’t popular anymore. They fired back by replying; back in the days only one Compas band travelled the world to perform, that band is Tropicana. Now there are about 5 to 6 bands that travel the world to perform, like Carimi and T-Vice, who have gone to France, Australia, Canada and more. Friday the tension aroused in the office, by 12 PM a group of the staff went to Bayfront Park to start setting up. Tents and banners were placed everywhere. The rain started to fall but it did not stop us from accomplishing our mission. Soaked we anchored the tents, climb ladders to tie banners and placed tear drop banners all over the park.

Finally the day had arrived Saturday! Compas fest was only hours away and we still had some bam bams to blow up and a Blimp to fill with helium. The crew woke up since 7 am  and we all met at the park at 8 to fix the minors details. We were greeted by the rain once again but this time way too early. The event started and went on even with the massive rain pouring people where coming in with ponchos and umbrellas the rain didn’t stop the people from coming in an enjoying the great compas music and the incredible Haitian food. The Musicians and bands sang their hearts out to celebrate Haiti’s flag day, the people were dancing and chanting under the rain. By 7:30 the rain stopped and more people started coming, the excitement was in the air, Haitian beer was flowing the music was good the people dancing and chanting along with their favorite bands. The Calldirek staff started giving out goody bags with flash lights, shirts, pens and glow sticks. Within minutes the park was glowing orange. It was a magnificent site to see. As the night ended, the staff wasn’t done working we had to take everything down, tents and banners and load them on the van. Compas Fest was a success the people were happy and the staff was finally going to get some quality sleep.

I would like to give a special thanks to the staff that was present day and night since Wednesday, Nahiman Moreno, Alexandre Laiutaud, Fabrice Laforest, Fabienne Georges, Melissandre Cabral Perez, Juan Carlos and also our helpers for Saturday, Bertrand Florville, Yadiris Brito, Natacha Morisseau, Laura Hernandez, Auri Guevara and Solangie Rodriguez.  

New Lowered Rates

Calldirek is glad to inform our customers that rates for Honduras, Dominican Republic and Jamaica have been lowered. You can now call your love ones in Honduras at a rate of 0.13₵ a minute, Dominican Republic at a rate of 0.03₵ a minute and Jamaica at a rate of 0.08₵. Calldirek! Always giving you the best service and best prices.

Calldirek’s Backbone

The IT department at Calldirek is made up of two incredible individuals, Jose F. Puerta and Emmanuel Piard. Entering into their office, all you see at first is monitors upon monitors with weird symbols and digits, just like the "Matrix.” Many times I’ve asked to explain what the symbols meant but after several seconds of explaining they would lose me. Having three screens in front of them, they each simultaneously monitor a different sector of the company, acting as the “BIG BROTHER” of Calldirek. Sounds like a lot for just two people to do, especially when the staff calls them for anything, even when the computer’s mouse is unplugged.

The management decided to hire outside programmers who would help take some of the load off of their backs. Jose the I.T Director oversees the whole database and makes sure that all outgoing calls are connected properly and without disturbance. His, very peculiar yet very recognizable, laugh lightens the office, even on the most dreadful days like promotion days. As for Emmanuel, the I.T Support, programmer, he is like no other. He is constantly writing different programs that keeps the website and database on check. He seems a bit shy at first glance but will overcome you with his charm and passion for healthy living style. With years of experience they manage to keep customers, partners and staff very satisfied. For that we are very grateful and thank them for their outstanding work.

Jose F. Puerta (left), Emmanuel Piard (right)