Telephone town hall has become a remarkable technological advancement that has enabled political and organizational leaders to get more than 20,000 people on a conference call at the same time. Previously, getting several hundred people on a call and maintaining quality was a challenge -- but the new telephone town hall technology has leapfrogged that and can accommodate tens of thousands.
The reason this is a breakthrough is because now political and organizations like non-profits can reach out to more people in less time. Moreover, the system doesn't require any hardware or software and can be activated quickly and easily. Let's say a topic is sweeping your constituency, or if you are business, a product issue as arisen that needs immediate attention. Very simply, you the telephone town hall service enables you to upload your phone lists online and the system calls out to each number. Tens of thousands of invitation calls can be processed within minutes. People who answer the phone and hear your invitation can opt-in and join your teleconference. You can see online the number of people who are logging into your teleconference. You can start talking about the issues of the day and begin inviting your participants to press a number on their keypad to ask a live question. Questions come into an operator who can talk to the questioners and screen calls, making sure you can stay on the topics you want to focus on.
Bottom line: Rather than speak to 50 or 100 or 200 people at a regular town hall meeting, you can now allow people to participate from the comfort of their homes and talk to 10,000, 20,000 or even 30,000 or more people at time. You cover more ground, make it more convenient for folks to join in and with the polling and survey features you get to know what people are thinking instantly. Why pay a pollster thousands of dollars when you can spend the same amount and get the advantage of speaking to thousands at the same while receiving your polling results in a fraction of the time?
Telephone town hall service will become more and more popular as elected officials, non profit organizations and corporate leaders discover the many advantages that the service offers. It will be a godsend to those who are interested in reaching out to those who are important to them.
Click the Town Hall Teleconferencing link at the top of the page to get more useful information about the service.