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

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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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