Voice Broadcasting News!!
Sunday, June 07, 2009
QCSS Voice Broadcasting Service
Buffalo Gove, Illinois - June 1, 2009 - QCSS, a leader and innovator in the telemarketing industry, introduces voice broadcasting services.
Getting your company's vital information into the minds of your consumers is one of the most conductive ways to produce profits for your company. After all, if your clientele base is not receiving news and exciting updates about your company, productivity and revenue are not likely to increase. It is essential that consumers stay up to date with what is going on in your company, what better way to remind them than a voice broadcast? Voice-broadcasting is quick, efficient, and cost effective- only costing cents per call! In addition, with voice-broadcasting, your message will always be directly received by your targeted audience, while other marketing forums, such as direct mail, are only opened a mere 20% of the time.
Our team at QCSS will help you to create a pre-recorded voice message, and then distribute to this message to specific list of potential clients which can include thousands of individuals. This message can be recorded by our team or by a professional voice specialist. Depending on the specific needs of your company, voice broadcasting can be used as a sales tool or as a means to relay information such as announcing emergency closings for various venues such as schools or office buildings.
Clientele will be provided with an 800 number to reach your sales staff, or be prompted to connect directly from the voice broadcast. We have an excellent inbound team that can take return calls or live transfers directly.
Our state of the art technology allows us to trace the effectiveness of the calls and maximize your efforts through various reports. The reports, which will be directly available to you, allow you to see the results of each and every voice-broadcast that is delivered.
Overall, voice broadcasting is a quick, efficient process. QCSS sets up the broadcast, schedules it, and runs it in a matter of hours, and then delivers you your personalized report. With guaranteed results, voice broadcasting could be the marketing solution your company has been waiting for!
About QCSS
QCSS, Quality Customer Service and Sales, generates revenue opportunities for companies who want to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales and marketing efforts whether inbound customer service, answering services, or outbound lead generation and appointment setting. As a leader and innovator in the sales and marketing industry for over 17 years, QCSS provides clients with a dedicated team of telephone sales representatives, a quality assurance staff, and the best inbound/outbound calling technology on the market. For more information, please visit www.qcssinc.com
Company Information:
Name: QCSS (Quality Customer Service & Sales)
Address: 275 West Dundee
City: Buffalo Grove
State: IL
ZIP: 60089
Country: USA
Phone: 847-229-7046
FAX: 847-229-7047
http://www.qcssinc.com
Getting your company's vital information into the minds of your consumers is one of the most conductive ways to produce profits for your company. After all, if your clientele base is not receiving news and exciting updates about your company, productivity and revenue are not likely to increase. It is essential that consumers stay up to date with what is going on in your company, what better way to remind them than a voice broadcast? Voice-broadcasting is quick, efficient, and cost effective- only costing cents per call! In addition, with voice-broadcasting, your message will always be directly received by your targeted audience, while other marketing forums, such as direct mail, are only opened a mere 20% of the time.
Our team at QCSS will help you to create a pre-recorded voice message, and then distribute to this message to specific list of potential clients which can include thousands of individuals. This message can be recorded by our team or by a professional voice specialist. Depending on the specific needs of your company, voice broadcasting can be used as a sales tool or as a means to relay information such as announcing emergency closings for various venues such as schools or office buildings.
Clientele will be provided with an 800 number to reach your sales staff, or be prompted to connect directly from the voice broadcast. We have an excellent inbound team that can take return calls or live transfers directly.
Our state of the art technology allows us to trace the effectiveness of the calls and maximize your efforts through various reports. The reports, which will be directly available to you, allow you to see the results of each and every voice-broadcast that is delivered.
Overall, voice broadcasting is a quick, efficient process. QCSS sets up the broadcast, schedules it, and runs it in a matter of hours, and then delivers you your personalized report. With guaranteed results, voice broadcasting could be the marketing solution your company has been waiting for!
About QCSS
QCSS, Quality Customer Service and Sales, generates revenue opportunities for companies who want to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales and marketing efforts whether inbound customer service, answering services, or outbound lead generation and appointment setting. As a leader and innovator in the sales and marketing industry for over 17 years, QCSS provides clients with a dedicated team of telephone sales representatives, a quality assurance staff, and the best inbound/outbound calling technology on the market. For more information, please visit www.qcssinc.com
Company Information:
Name: QCSS (Quality Customer Service & Sales)
Address: 275 West Dundee
City: Buffalo Grove
State: IL
ZIP: 60089
Country: USA
Phone: 847-229-7046
FAX: 847-229-7047
http://www.qcssinc.com
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Free Mortgage or Loan Modification Leads with All Voice Broadcasting or Direct Mail Marketing
Kelly Media announced today that are offering free internet mortgage or loan modification leads with all voice broadcasting campaigns targeting loan workout, refinance and FHA mortgage loans. KMG announced that they are all committed to internet lead generation and direct marketing campaigns and the offer for free leads indicates their commitment to your business success long term. Every $1,000 order gets 10 free internet leads (valued at $350). So if a mortgage company invests $10,000 with Kelly Media, they will get 100 free internet leads. (valued at $3,500). The mortgage marketing company said the “free lead internet lead” offer will go from now from now until May 15th. The Free lead offer is exclusively for “press 1” live transfer lead packages and direct mail marketing campaigns.
Kelly Media Group remains a result driven full-service advertising agency that provides live transfer leads from websites, voice broadcasting, direct mail marketing and TV infomercial campaigns. The marketing company continues to reiterate that their lead generation achieves the best results when combining multiple marketing platforms. KMG offers custom websites, search marketing, outbound dialing, IVR and call center outsourcing. The company’s mission continues to be “making more money for their clients” by marketing and advertising to achieve both short and long term goals. Whether you are a loan officer, small mortgage company, loan modification law firm or a publically traded mortgage lender, Kelly Media provides marketing solutions for all budgets that reduce labor costs while increasing sales by implementing their stealth strategies and advanced technology.
Kelly Media promises to maximize marketing efforts that improve marketing and mortgage lead generation campaigns. KMG has the advertising technology needed to help your company attain your goals, while increasing your profits. Unlike many traditional mortgage lead brokers, they provide all these services under one roof.
o Direct Mail Leads
o Voice Broadcasting
o Click to Call Internet Leads
o Call Center with Live Operators
o Press 1 Live Transfer Leads
o Advanced Outbound Dialing
o Radio or TV Advertising
o TV Infomercial Production
o IVR Lead Generation
o Web Design & Development
o Search Engine Optimization
KMG warns companies not to exhaust their budget with one source of marketing. At Kelly Media Group, they bring a combination of marketing tools you need together, so you can increase your lead generation, revenues and profits quicker. Stop rolling the dice, with a “one trick pony” company and reap the benefits that come from an experienced advertising agency like KMG. With their bulk media buys, they can produce your infomercial and pass on discounted advertising spots for local, cable and satellite television. Whether you want to promote your service, sell more products, or increase your brand awareness, the KMG team has the experience, knowledge and drive to get you good results quickly. Let them be your partner in success for a new direct mail design, marketing and lead generation campaign.
Kelly Media Group remains a result driven full-service advertising agency that provides live transfer leads from websites, voice broadcasting, direct mail marketing and TV infomercial campaigns. The marketing company continues to reiterate that their lead generation achieves the best results when combining multiple marketing platforms. KMG offers custom websites, search marketing, outbound dialing, IVR and call center outsourcing. The company’s mission continues to be “making more money for their clients” by marketing and advertising to achieve both short and long term goals. Whether you are a loan officer, small mortgage company, loan modification law firm or a publically traded mortgage lender, Kelly Media provides marketing solutions for all budgets that reduce labor costs while increasing sales by implementing their stealth strategies and advanced technology.
Kelly Media promises to maximize marketing efforts that improve marketing and mortgage lead generation campaigns. KMG has the advertising technology needed to help your company attain your goals, while increasing your profits. Unlike many traditional mortgage lead brokers, they provide all these services under one roof.
o Direct Mail Leads
o Voice Broadcasting
o Click to Call Internet Leads
o Call Center with Live Operators
o Press 1 Live Transfer Leads
o Advanced Outbound Dialing
o Radio or TV Advertising
o TV Infomercial Production
o IVR Lead Generation
o Web Design & Development
o Search Engine Optimization
KMG warns companies not to exhaust their budget with one source of marketing. At Kelly Media Group, they bring a combination of marketing tools you need together, so you can increase your lead generation, revenues and profits quicker. Stop rolling the dice, with a “one trick pony” company and reap the benefits that come from an experienced advertising agency like KMG. With their bulk media buys, they can produce your infomercial and pass on discounted advertising spots for local, cable and satellite television. Whether you want to promote your service, sell more products, or increase your brand awareness, the KMG team has the experience, knowledge and drive to get you good results quickly. Let them be your partner in success for a new direct mail design, marketing and lead generation campaign.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, March 02, 2009
Liquid Media Announces Internet's First Consumer-Controlled Advertising Solution
Recently formed Liquid Media LLC of Boulder, Colorado is focused on simplifying how businesses create and distribute advertising. Its patent-pending technology eliminates unwanted advertising for consumers. At the spring DEMO 2009 Conference, Liquid Media demonstrates and launches the industry's first consumer-controlled advertising service found on the web at www.loyal2me.com. Also released today is Loyal2Me's first business tool called VoiceTouch.
The VoiceTouch web account allows businesses to create and immediately deliver voice advertising campaigns to their customers quickly and easily. New Jersey's Aquamedica Spa (www.aquamedicaspa.com) Owner, Valentina Chistova, says, "Liquid Media's VoiceTouch tool has allowed the spa to fill empty appointments at a rate unseen by any other marketing tool."
VoiceTouch focuses on the use of voice for its advertising campaigns because it increases the response rate and adds richness and personalization that no other media can achieve. Liquid Media's clients have loyal customers and the VoiceTouch campaigns leverage personal relationships, and offer real value (i.e. discounts) for the consumer. Since VoiceTouch is a web-hosted service, voice advertising campaigns can be created and sent within minutes.
The VoiceTouch service allows the business to measure the effectiveness of the campaign and how much business to expect in the next few hours. Imagine it; on-demand revenue generation is now possible using the VoiceTouch account. Liquid Media is creating a social marketing community where advertising is created and shared from businesses to consumers. Businesses get an additional benefit of Loyal2Me.com that allows the consumers to share their most valuable advertising with their friends with their own account on the Loyal2Me.com web service.
Today, Liquid Media also announces Loyal2Me.com VoiceRocket accounts for the consumers. The VoiceRocket accounts are free to the consumer and will be free forever. These consumer accounts allow the consumer to take control of their advertising environment only giving permission to those companies they want to hear from.
The VoiceRocket accounts also allow the consumers to share hot deals with their friends and create their own instant voice messages to their friends and family. Valentina Chistova also comments on her client's control, "The consumer control allows me to confidently create and send campaigns, at will, knowing that the consumers control frequency and timing of their messages. I won't bother them and they will respond. Loyal2Me is a fantastic service. My customers can forward my advertising to their friends and family giving me the benefit of ripple marketing."
Founded by Roger Toennis, Dean Hiller and Alex Montoya, Liquid Media is simplifying the advertising industry with new creation and distribution methods and in the process ending junk mail and spam as we know it today.
Website: http://www.liquidmediasw.com/
The VoiceTouch web account allows businesses to create and immediately deliver voice advertising campaigns to their customers quickly and easily. New Jersey's Aquamedica Spa (www.aquamedicaspa.com) Owner, Valentina Chistova, says, "Liquid Media's VoiceTouch tool has allowed the spa to fill empty appointments at a rate unseen by any other marketing tool."
VoiceTouch focuses on the use of voice for its advertising campaigns because it increases the response rate and adds richness and personalization that no other media can achieve. Liquid Media's clients have loyal customers and the VoiceTouch campaigns leverage personal relationships, and offer real value (i.e. discounts) for the consumer. Since VoiceTouch is a web-hosted service, voice advertising campaigns can be created and sent within minutes.
The VoiceTouch service allows the business to measure the effectiveness of the campaign and how much business to expect in the next few hours. Imagine it; on-demand revenue generation is now possible using the VoiceTouch account. Liquid Media is creating a social marketing community where advertising is created and shared from businesses to consumers. Businesses get an additional benefit of Loyal2Me.com that allows the consumers to share their most valuable advertising with their friends with their own account on the Loyal2Me.com web service.
Today, Liquid Media also announces Loyal2Me.com VoiceRocket accounts for the consumers. The VoiceRocket accounts are free to the consumer and will be free forever. These consumer accounts allow the consumer to take control of their advertising environment only giving permission to those companies they want to hear from.
The VoiceRocket accounts also allow the consumers to share hot deals with their friends and create their own instant voice messages to their friends and family. Valentina Chistova also comments on her client's control, "The consumer control allows me to confidently create and send campaigns, at will, knowing that the consumers control frequency and timing of their messages. I won't bother them and they will respond. Loyal2Me is a fantastic service. My customers can forward my advertising to their friends and family giving me the benefit of ripple marketing."
Founded by Roger Toennis, Dean Hiller and Alex Montoya, Liquid Media is simplifying the advertising industry with new creation and distribution methods and in the process ending junk mail and spam as we know it today.
Website: http://www.liquidmediasw.com/
Saturday, February 28, 2009
CallFire's BYOC Program Scales Voice Broadcast to Carrier Grade
On March 1, Los Angeles-based "cloud telephony" service provider CallFire will introduce its "Bring-Your-Own-Carrier" licensing program, an effort to help carriers and VoIP resellers bring CallFire—the company's SIP-based voice broadcast application—to market profitably.
CallFire lets users set up calling campaigns or virtual call centers through an on-demand, pay-as-you-go, API-driven platform. The system is based on Asterisk Auto Dialer and Asterisk Predictive Dialer, ready-to-use open source tools that help CallFire market its services at a price affordable to SMB users.
Prior to the BYOC release, CallFire had no licensing program that addressed the needs of larger carriers and resellers, according to CEO and co-founder Dinesh Ravishanker. Calls would utilize CallFire termination, whereas the new program allows carriers to tap CallFire’s services while making use of their own SIP termination.
"We simply weren’t licensing on a per minute model which would then allow them to capitalize on their own very aggressive rate structures. It wasn’t worth their time" to resell CallFire, Ravishanker said. Under the BYOC effort carriers can make best use of the low-cost arrangements they already have in place with the major long-distance providers.
The presence of larger-scale carriers means CallFire will need to accommodate an evolving user base. Ravishanker said the company has invested heavily to ensure it can meet that challenge.
"It took a significant change in the way our Voice over IP platform is architected to handle multiple long-distance vendors," he said. In particular the company has added a least-cost routing engine which can support multiple carriers, each with its own pricing structure.
That in-house construction effort took about six months, about 40 percent of which was spent just putting the system through its paces.
"Whenever you are architecting a system that is built to handle enterprise scalability, [quality assurance] is always one of the toughest parts of the job," Ravishanker said. "When you are trying to scale to levels that have never been scaled before, a lot of design is driven by what you think might happen, so you have to find ways to emulate tripling or quadrupling your volume. You need to do those emulations successfully, to test the system at volume and scale."
As it ramps up BYOC, the company is continuing its ongoing marketing programs. A white label program allows a reseller with little or no in-house VoIP expertise to mount its own branded site in a week at a cost of $500 a year plus minutes. The basic reseller program allows resellers to advertise CallFire services on the web with their own coupon codes, with no setup fees or other costs.
These marketing efforts have helped CallFire to grow steadily since its founding in 2006. The company now claims about 10,000 registrants and 3,500 active users.
The BYOC program is aimed at organizations that resell Tier 1 connectivity. With potentially thousands of such entities in the marketplace, Ravishanker said CallFire will initiate its marketing efforts among those who have already expressed an interest in reselling the product.
"We’ve got customers who have been waiting for this solution," he said. It was that demand that first spark development of the BYOC program, "and because the solution was bred from necessity, we feel that the market does already exist."
As the marketing plan extends beyond these initial interested parties, Ravishanker said he expects to have little trouble in identifying further targets. "The great part is that the big carriers are all known and they are easy to get to, so direct sales efforts are all that is required. It’s not like consumers, where would have to have all these banner ads and other things. In this case it is very straightforward," he said.
As its seeks out those relationships, CallFire likely will find itself making inroads into the political community. The company drew attention to itself last year through its facilitation of calling efforts by MoveOn.org in support of the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Among its more recent political clients, the company is facilitating efforts by Massachusetts-based MassEquality.org, a gay and lesbian advocacy organization.
"We have this very large nonprofit following, in part because we allow volunteers to work from home very easily, but also because we have earned a reputation in that industry," Ravishanker said. "When someone like MoveOn.org uses you, your name starts to get around."
CallFire lets users set up calling campaigns or virtual call centers through an on-demand, pay-as-you-go, API-driven platform. The system is based on Asterisk Auto Dialer and Asterisk Predictive Dialer, ready-to-use open source tools that help CallFire market its services at a price affordable to SMB users.
Prior to the BYOC release, CallFire had no licensing program that addressed the needs of larger carriers and resellers, according to CEO and co-founder Dinesh Ravishanker. Calls would utilize CallFire termination, whereas the new program allows carriers to tap CallFire’s services while making use of their own SIP termination.
"We simply weren’t licensing on a per minute model which would then allow them to capitalize on their own very aggressive rate structures. It wasn’t worth their time" to resell CallFire, Ravishanker said. Under the BYOC effort carriers can make best use of the low-cost arrangements they already have in place with the major long-distance providers.
The presence of larger-scale carriers means CallFire will need to accommodate an evolving user base. Ravishanker said the company has invested heavily to ensure it can meet that challenge.
"It took a significant change in the way our Voice over IP platform is architected to handle multiple long-distance vendors," he said. In particular the company has added a least-cost routing engine which can support multiple carriers, each with its own pricing structure.
That in-house construction effort took about six months, about 40 percent of which was spent just putting the system through its paces.
"Whenever you are architecting a system that is built to handle enterprise scalability, [quality assurance] is always one of the toughest parts of the job," Ravishanker said. "When you are trying to scale to levels that have never been scaled before, a lot of design is driven by what you think might happen, so you have to find ways to emulate tripling or quadrupling your volume. You need to do those emulations successfully, to test the system at volume and scale."
As it ramps up BYOC, the company is continuing its ongoing marketing programs. A white label program allows a reseller with little or no in-house VoIP expertise to mount its own branded site in a week at a cost of $500 a year plus minutes. The basic reseller program allows resellers to advertise CallFire services on the web with their own coupon codes, with no setup fees or other costs.
These marketing efforts have helped CallFire to grow steadily since its founding in 2006. The company now claims about 10,000 registrants and 3,500 active users.
The BYOC program is aimed at organizations that resell Tier 1 connectivity. With potentially thousands of such entities in the marketplace, Ravishanker said CallFire will initiate its marketing efforts among those who have already expressed an interest in reselling the product.
"We’ve got customers who have been waiting for this solution," he said. It was that demand that first spark development of the BYOC program, "and because the solution was bred from necessity, we feel that the market does already exist."
As the marketing plan extends beyond these initial interested parties, Ravishanker said he expects to have little trouble in identifying further targets. "The great part is that the big carriers are all known and they are easy to get to, so direct sales efforts are all that is required. It’s not like consumers, where would have to have all these banner ads and other things. In this case it is very straightforward," he said.
As its seeks out those relationships, CallFire likely will find itself making inroads into the political community. The company drew attention to itself last year through its facilitation of calling efforts by MoveOn.org in support of the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Among its more recent political clients, the company is facilitating efforts by Massachusetts-based MassEquality.org, a gay and lesbian advocacy organization.
"We have this very large nonprofit following, in part because we allow volunteers to work from home very easily, but also because we have earned a reputation in that industry," Ravishanker said. "When someone like MoveOn.org uses you, your name starts to get around."
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Ifbyphone Delivers Voice Broadcast Service Guarantee
Pricing Promotion Also Offered for High-Volume Users of Voice Broadcasting
Ifbyphone is raising the bar for telephone automation application providers with a new service guarantee: Customers' voice broadcast calls will be delivered on time or they are free. Ifbyphone is setting a new standard for voice broadcast calls and challenges the industry to match its guarantee, making customers the clear winners.
Our guarantee helps our business customers understand how important the delivery of their voice broadcast calls is to us. Moreover, our guarantee helps differentiate Ifbyphone's services because we are the first and only provider that stands 100 percent behind the delivery of voice broadcast calls.
As we looked across the voice broadcast market, we realized that our approach to message delivery is unique. Ifbyphone's self-service scheduler looks at existing capacity to ensure that a delivery request can be satisfied. We then manage our capacity to make certain that every call gets delivered on time. All broadcast customers deserve this level of service, which is why we encourage our competitors to join us in delivering 100 percent of broadcast calls on time.
We're offering inducements to high-volume broadcasters, such as direct-marketing firms and direct-response advertisers, to encourage them to experience the premium services that Ifbyphone delivers.
"Our guarantee helps our business customers understand how important the delivery of their voice broadcast calls is to us," said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. "Moreover, our guarantee helps differentiate Ifbyphone's services because we are the first and only provider that stands 100 percent behind the delivery of voice broadcast calls."
Ifbyphone's guarantee is simple: if any scheduled broadcast call to a U.S. or Canadian phone number is delayed by more than five minutes, Ifbyphone will reimburse customers for the call.
"As we looked across the voice broadcast market, we realized that our approach to message delivery is unique," Shapiro said. "Ifbyphone's self-service scheduler looks at existing capacity to ensure that a delivery request can be satisfied. We then manage our capacity to make certain that every call gets delivered on time. All broadcast customers deserve this level of service, which is why we encourage our competitors to join us in delivering 100 percent of broadcast calls on time."
Ifbyphone is also kicking off a voice-broadcasting promotion in January, providing special pricing to high-volume voice broadcasters. "We're offering inducements to high-volume broadcasters, such as direct-marketing firms and direct-response advertisers, to encourage them to experience the premium services that Ifbyphone delivers," Shapiro said.
Ifbyphone was also the first telephone automation application provider to announce full conformity with the Federal Trade Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule and was the first voice broadcast company to release an iPhone App. Beyond voice broadcasting, the company offers a wide range of advanced, intelligent call-handling features that are ideal for businesses of all sizes.
To learn more about Ifbyphone's affordable suite of telephone automation applications, including interactive voice broadcasting, Trackable Toll-Free Numbers and interactive voice response (IVR), visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
About Ifbyphone:
Ifbyphone is a telephone automation application company that provides small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with tools to enhance customer conversations, drive sales, and lower costs. Leveraging Ifbyphone's extreme usability, developers and marketers can quickly create solutions ranging from simple click-to-call links to sophisticated call routing and interactive-marketing systems. Ifbyphone's solutions are available directly to SMBs and through a network of resellers. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.
Contact:
Cheryl Cink, for Ifbyphone
ccink (at) comunicano (dot) com
+1 530-756-4630
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Ifbyphone is raising the bar for telephone automation application providers with a new service guarantee: Customers' voice broadcast calls will be delivered on time or they are free. Ifbyphone is setting a new standard for voice broadcast calls and challenges the industry to match its guarantee, making customers the clear winners.
Our guarantee helps our business customers understand how important the delivery of their voice broadcast calls is to us. Moreover, our guarantee helps differentiate Ifbyphone's services because we are the first and only provider that stands 100 percent behind the delivery of voice broadcast calls.
As we looked across the voice broadcast market, we realized that our approach to message delivery is unique. Ifbyphone's self-service scheduler looks at existing capacity to ensure that a delivery request can be satisfied. We then manage our capacity to make certain that every call gets delivered on time. All broadcast customers deserve this level of service, which is why we encourage our competitors to join us in delivering 100 percent of broadcast calls on time.
We're offering inducements to high-volume broadcasters, such as direct-marketing firms and direct-response advertisers, to encourage them to experience the premium services that Ifbyphone delivers.
"Our guarantee helps our business customers understand how important the delivery of their voice broadcast calls is to us," said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. "Moreover, our guarantee helps differentiate Ifbyphone's services because we are the first and only provider that stands 100 percent behind the delivery of voice broadcast calls."
Ifbyphone's guarantee is simple: if any scheduled broadcast call to a U.S. or Canadian phone number is delayed by more than five minutes, Ifbyphone will reimburse customers for the call.
"As we looked across the voice broadcast market, we realized that our approach to message delivery is unique," Shapiro said. "Ifbyphone's self-service scheduler looks at existing capacity to ensure that a delivery request can be satisfied. We then manage our capacity to make certain that every call gets delivered on time. All broadcast customers deserve this level of service, which is why we encourage our competitors to join us in delivering 100 percent of broadcast calls on time."
Ifbyphone is also kicking off a voice-broadcasting promotion in January, providing special pricing to high-volume voice broadcasters. "We're offering inducements to high-volume broadcasters, such as direct-marketing firms and direct-response advertisers, to encourage them to experience the premium services that Ifbyphone delivers," Shapiro said.
Ifbyphone was also the first telephone automation application provider to announce full conformity with the Federal Trade Commission's Telemarketing Sales Rule and was the first voice broadcast company to release an iPhone App. Beyond voice broadcasting, the company offers a wide range of advanced, intelligent call-handling features that are ideal for businesses of all sizes.
To learn more about Ifbyphone's affordable suite of telephone automation applications, including interactive voice broadcasting, Trackable Toll-Free Numbers and interactive voice response (IVR), visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
About Ifbyphone:
Ifbyphone is a telephone automation application company that provides small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with tools to enhance customer conversations, drive sales, and lower costs. Leveraging Ifbyphone's extreme usability, developers and marketers can quickly create solutions ranging from simple click-to-call links to sophisticated call routing and interactive-marketing systems. Ifbyphone's solutions are available directly to SMBs and through a network of resellers. For more information, visit www.ifbyphone.com.
Contact:
Cheryl Cink, for Ifbyphone
ccink (at) comunicano (dot) com
+1 530-756-4630
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Friday, January 02, 2009
Voice Messaging for Groups: Top Services Compared
Even though it’s not a new concept, sending voice message blasts to a group of people appears to be a service on the rise. We’ve decided to break down four sites with distinct offerings in the hopes that you can easily find your preferred option for sending rapid voice messages to groups.
From freemium to premium, and simple to robust, you’ve definitely got options should you opt in favor of voice message broadcasting.
We’re really curious how many people are actually using these services and for what purposes. We’d love to hear your thoughts about each service, your personal experiences, what you love or hate about group messaging, and whether or not you’d want to receive one of these messages. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
ShoutNow
ShoutNow is the newest, and simplest, addition to the space. The service, which was launched over the course of Indianapolis Startup Weekend in December, uses a pay-per-message model to let users send voice messages to a group of recipients. All you have to do is visit the website, enter your phone number, record your message, enter the phone numbers of recipients, pay your tab, and you’re done.
At 99 cents for a 1 minute message to up to 10 contacts, ShoutNow offers a relatively cheap, but professional alternative to other freemium plans that include advertisements. The site doesn’t appear to offer much in the way of additional features, like creating groups of contacts, but we can assume that is just a side effect to being brand new.
Phonevite
Phonevite, an older and more robust service (that even offers an iGoogle gadget), tackles the voice-message-to-many challenge slightly differently. You’ll need to create an account and verify your phone number, but once you do you can import contacts, or add them manually, to create groups. Once you’re all setup, you can take advantage of the free account that lets you create up to 25 calls, each with an ad promoting Phonevite (premium services are available starting at $25 and remove ads from calls).
To create a message just select to record via web (requires download) or phone, say your message, add contacts, and customize options like sending the message via email as well. Your message will be delivered with caller ID, and should you opt to include RSVP options for events, each recipient will be given the opportunity to select 1 for yes, 2 for no, or 3 for maybe, as well as record a response to the sender.
Tatango
Tatango is a multitasking service that takes on both voice and text group messages, and is a perfect option when 140 characters just doesn’t cut it. Like Phonevite, Tatango offers users a free plan with advertisements tacked on to messages.
With Tatango, users create groups and use the group name to quickly alert a group of people with a text or audio message. Groups can also be promoted across social sites, like FriendFeed and Facebook, making it easy for event organizers and group coordinators to get an opt-in list of interested parties. Tatango’s additional features include the ability to review sent messages, customize settings per group, send group invites, create a flash widget, and automatically syndicate updates from an RSS feed.
When you’re ready to create your audio message from your phone, just text VOICE to 68398 and Tatango will call you so you can record your message. For members with more than one group, Tatango will text you back, before calling, with selection options.
Tatango’s smooth interface, dual service, group customization options, and social site promotion options, make this site a joy to use and an incredibly useful option for organizer types.
Pingercast
Positioned more towards artists and celebrities with a large audience, Pingercast, by Pinger, lets you broadcast your voice message to anyone who wants to hear it for free. Once you sign up, you’ll be walked through the process of creating a subscription widget for your website. Once you’re done with that you can upload an audio recording, or create one via web or phone. You can also customize the SMS message users will receive once they subscribe to your voice updates.
Even though we originally thought the service was voicemail spam, I can immediately see a value in subscription-based voice messaging. As a group organizer, I can add this widget to the group site and members can subscribe to updates (should they choose to do so), and I can start recording informational messages on dates, times, events, and locations for group meetups. This particular option would save me some time and it’s completely opt-in, so I wouldn’t feel like I was harassing anyone.
From freemium to premium, and simple to robust, you’ve definitely got options should you opt in favor of voice message broadcasting.
We’re really curious how many people are actually using these services and for what purposes. We’d love to hear your thoughts about each service, your personal experiences, what you love or hate about group messaging, and whether or not you’d want to receive one of these messages. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
ShoutNow
ShoutNow is the newest, and simplest, addition to the space. The service, which was launched over the course of Indianapolis Startup Weekend in December, uses a pay-per-message model to let users send voice messages to a group of recipients. All you have to do is visit the website, enter your phone number, record your message, enter the phone numbers of recipients, pay your tab, and you’re done.
At 99 cents for a 1 minute message to up to 10 contacts, ShoutNow offers a relatively cheap, but professional alternative to other freemium plans that include advertisements. The site doesn’t appear to offer much in the way of additional features, like creating groups of contacts, but we can assume that is just a side effect to being brand new.
Phonevite
Phonevite, an older and more robust service (that even offers an iGoogle gadget), tackles the voice-message-to-many challenge slightly differently. You’ll need to create an account and verify your phone number, but once you do you can import contacts, or add them manually, to create groups. Once you’re all setup, you can take advantage of the free account that lets you create up to 25 calls, each with an ad promoting Phonevite (premium services are available starting at $25 and remove ads from calls).
To create a message just select to record via web (requires download) or phone, say your message, add contacts, and customize options like sending the message via email as well. Your message will be delivered with caller ID, and should you opt to include RSVP options for events, each recipient will be given the opportunity to select 1 for yes, 2 for no, or 3 for maybe, as well as record a response to the sender.
Tatango
Tatango is a multitasking service that takes on both voice and text group messages, and is a perfect option when 140 characters just doesn’t cut it. Like Phonevite, Tatango offers users a free plan with advertisements tacked on to messages.
With Tatango, users create groups and use the group name to quickly alert a group of people with a text or audio message. Groups can also be promoted across social sites, like FriendFeed and Facebook, making it easy for event organizers and group coordinators to get an opt-in list of interested parties. Tatango’s additional features include the ability to review sent messages, customize settings per group, send group invites, create a flash widget, and automatically syndicate updates from an RSS feed.
When you’re ready to create your audio message from your phone, just text VOICE to 68398 and Tatango will call you so you can record your message. For members with more than one group, Tatango will text you back, before calling, with selection options.
Tatango’s smooth interface, dual service, group customization options, and social site promotion options, make this site a joy to use and an incredibly useful option for organizer types.
Pingercast
Positioned more towards artists and celebrities with a large audience, Pingercast, by Pinger, lets you broadcast your voice message to anyone who wants to hear it for free. Once you sign up, you’ll be walked through the process of creating a subscription widget for your website. Once you’re done with that you can upload an audio recording, or create one via web or phone. You can also customize the SMS message users will receive once they subscribe to your voice updates.
Even though we originally thought the service was voicemail spam, I can immediately see a value in subscription-based voice messaging. As a group organizer, I can add this widget to the group site and members can subscribe to updates (should they choose to do so), and I can start recording informational messages on dates, times, events, and locations for group meetups. This particular option would save me some time and it’s completely opt-in, so I wouldn’t feel like I was harassing anyone.
