Combine the latest voice broadcasting and most robust teleconferencing technology and what do you get?  A Town Hall TeleConference where thousands of people meet on the phone to get the latest political, association or business news while asking and telling officials what's on their minds.  It's the fastest, easiest and more effective way for interested people to participate in a tradition that goes back to the early days of our nation when local decisions where made at the Town Hall and everyone had a chance to chime in with their opinions.  But today, you can participate from the comfort of your home and never have to worry about fighting the traffic or the weather to get to a meeting.  It's done right over the phone in the comfort of your home.  

If you are an elected official, a candidate for public office, or a leader of an association, union or business, who wants to engage your constituents, members or customers, there's no better way to speak directly to them than having a Town Hall TeleConference.  Our service enables you to invite thousands of people instantly, many of whom will be interested in being automatically switched into the conference where they will be able to hear you and ask you questions.  Not to worry, everything is controlled and you can entertain the questions you want from the people you want to hear from.  You can open it wide up or have a call screener.  The choice is yours.  Moreover, you can solicit opinions and having instant surveys and polls.  It's the ideal voter outreach service that keeps you touch.  Click on the link at the top of this page to get more information. 

What's the best way for you to get thousands of people on the phone in a few minutes and have a virtual town hall meeting?  It's called Town Hall TeleConference and it's transforming the way politicians communicate with their constituents.  There's still value in meeting folks face to face during district or county wide tours, but now with some amazing Internet technology you can meet folks in a virtual meeting over the phone and no one, include you, have to leave the office or home to do it.  Convenient, efficient and extremely effective in speaking directly to the people.  Moreover, they can speak directly with you as well during controlled Q & A sessions.  More and more political offices and organizations, particularly on the local level, will be using this as part of their outreach programs.  Interested in learning more?  Just give us a call anytime and check out our Town Hall TeleConference webpage.

Those in the halls of Congress know the benefits of conducting town hall meetings over the phone.  It's become an important part of citizen outreach programs that enable the Representatives and Senators to speak directly with the people.  Usually, in the real world, Washington, DC, is the place that adopts cutting edge technology last, but in this case it was first.  Now, the idea of engaging the public in virtual town hall meetings on the local level is catching on, and more and more state representatives, county and city officials are adopting this amazing technology to stay in touch and find out what people are thinking and saying about the issues of the day.

Hot off the press!  The New York Post has reported that New York Governor Paterson has just signed legislation that requires New York City schools to notify parents by email, text or phone calls when there is an emergency.  The measure requires a system at each of the city's public schools and parents, school staff and community members can choose to be included on the school's call list.

As you know, one of our specialties is our school alert phone broadcasting service which enables school and colleges to send recorded messages over the phone for emergencies and dozens of other applications.  If you want to learn more about our services, just click here for our School Alert service and find out just how easy and inexpensive it is to get started.  Everything is already set up and ready to go at a moment's notice.

A little known optional feature to voice broadcasting is data collection.  Rather than just delivering an outbound message, data collection allows you to poll your recipients for information, by pressing keys on their key pad in response to questions.  The information gathered through this process is then tabulated for you and delivered in a report, which will help you clearly define your target audiences' preferences.  This is particularly good for new product surveys, and even polling for political candidates.

Many times businesses or non-profits want to send a pre-recorded voice message to a large number of recipients, but don't necessarily have the personnel available to handle the in-bound calls requesting additional information.  A feature that can be most useful to you in these situations is Call Pacing.  With Call Pacing, you can send a job to a large list, but designate a certain number of calls per hour and have your message delivered over a longer period of time without having to split your list into smaller separate jobs.

Many associations, non-profits and businesses use voice blasts to contact their members, donors and customers.  It can be a very effective tool to disseminate information to increase attendance, raise funds, confirm appointments or announce sales.

However, if you want to make the most of your voice broadcasts it's important that you provide an accurate caller ID to identify yourself.  Many times folks will scan the phone numbers in their message logs before they actually listen to their messages.  For the most timely response to your message, you want the Caller ID number to be recognizable.

Most people are familiar with traditional voice blast messages, that deliver the same message to every recipient.  But there are times that companies need more options than just voice broadcasting.  For instance, collections calls.  While leaving a message that an account is in arrears is okay, most companies are eager to get a payment as quickly as possible, and want a way for the recipient to press a key on their phone and talk to a live person.  This is formally known as "hot key transfer."  A hot key call is really no more difficult to set up than regular voice blast.  You just have to designate what number you want the calls to go to, and the key that you want recipients to press.

Over 80% of business phones are not answered by a live person, but by voicemail.  Voicemail can be a godsend for business people who want to be more productive, and at the same time, for those who like to hide behind it.  It can be a tool used to organize your day, or one that can cover up a 3 hour lunch or golf game.  Voicemail has been embraced in the business community, except for bosses who call, get voicemail, and fume because they can't figure out why everyone has disappeared.  Can this blackhole of the digital world be turned into a goldmine of opportunity and used to your advantage?  The answer is yes!

Why?  Because 90% of business people listen to their voicemail.  The key is how you deliver that voicemail.  Most businesses are dropping voicemail messages one of two ways.  First they try to use voice broadcasting which is unable to get through operators and receptionist and phone trees.  Or second, they use live callers who spend most of their day repeating themselves for every single voicemail.  Both techniques are ineffective and exceedingly expensive in the instance of using live callers.

The simple solution is using our Virtual Online Phone Dialing service that enables live callers to get to the targeted prospect and either speak live to the prospect or deposit a pre-recorded voice message to the prospect's answering machine.  That may not seem like a big deal, but the system can allow you to start dialing the next call while it's leaving the message to the previous caller, thus improving speed and productivity up to 50% or more.