http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/ The latest trends in the phone broadcasting industry, including updates on phone broadcasting technology and services and sending pre-recorded phone messages. Also includes news about electronic statements, including electronic invoices. en-us Copyright 2010 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:29:45 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Here are some recently posted articles we've put up at EzineArticles.com to help folks learn about the various phone broadcasting services and how they work.  If you have any questions, give us a call at OrangePoint at 888-387-8636.  Thank you again.

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Robocalls for Political Campaigns, Candidates and Races

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2010/03/more-blast-voicemail-articles.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2010/03/more-blast-voicemail-articles.html blast voicemail blasting pre-recorded messages broadcast voicemail call blasting robocalls Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:29:45 -0500 Launching an outbound voicemail blast is easy to do.  Best of all, you don't need any special hardware or software.  Very simply, you take advantage of our online platform (some call it PaaS, or Platform as a Service) and launch your call blast immediately or schedule it for a time in the future.  In a nutshell, this is what you do:

1)  Give us a call and set up your account in a few minutes.

2)  Compile your phone list in a speadsheet (Excel works fine).

3) Upload your list or have us do it for you.

4)  Record your message over the phone.  We can help with that too.

5)  Click send.

That's it.  And within minutes you'll have your pre-recorded message sent to thousands of contacts -- either delivered to live answers or by having your message left on their voicemail.  Not only will your message be sent immediately, but you will also save a fortune in postage and paper.  (If you are sending messages by email, you can save as well, but remember, not everyone has email, checks email or likes email.  On the other hand, everyone has a phone.)

So the next time you are interested in sending notifications or alerts by voicemail blast, otherwise known as phone broadcasting or phone blast, give us a call, and we'll do our best to make sure your experience is a positive one.  We think you'll be surprised at just how easy it is, whether you decide to handle it yourself or have us do it for you.

For more information you can click here:  http://www.orangepoint.net/phone_broadcasting.html

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/outbound-voicemail-blast.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/outbound-voicemail-blast.html Phone Broadcasting outbound voicemail blast Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:33:44 -0500 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.

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-lets-you-s.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-lets-you-s.html Telephone Town Hall Town Hall TeleConference telephone town hall Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:57:05 -0500 The new telephone town hall service provides many options, but one of the most amazing features is the instant survey.  It's a lot more than just numbers!  Let's say you are speaking to 20,000 members or constituents and you are interested in knowing how they feel about a particular subject.  And let's say you ask them to participate by saying, "I want to know how you feel about apple pie.  Let's take a live survey now and those of you who like apple pie, press #1 on your phone keypad.  If you don't like apple pie, please press #2 on your keypad.  Please vote now."  All of a sudden thousands of people are voting on the question and you can begin seeing the live results as they are compiled in real time.

But here's the amazing part...  After the telephone town hall meeting, you can receive a detailed report.  Depending on the completeness of the phone list you used to place the calls, your report could include the names, phone numbers and addresses of those who voted one way or the other.  In other words, in this example, you can get a complete list of names and addresses of those who like apple pie.  This is an extremely valuable resource for following up and sending information you know these particular people would be interested in receiving.  You can send them all apple pie recipes!

You can imagine the value and usefulness of such data.  Now you can get both a general survey result on the important topics of the day, but on top of that, you can get data that tells you specifically which people voted and how.  This takes polling into "warp drive" by enabling you to target voters with laser precision.  Until now, you might have know how sections of a city, or even a neighborhood, felt about a certain topic.  But now you can narrow it down to households.

This important and critical advancement in polling technology will pave the way for elected officials and organizational and corporate leaders to keep a more exacting ear to the ground and better understand the attitudes and feelings of those they represent.  It's a huge and positive step forward in a representative democracy that prides itself on the knowing the "will of the people."

You can get more information at our website here:  http://www.orangepoint.net/town_hall_teleconference.html

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-service-pr.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-service-pr.html Telephone Town Hall Town Hall TeleConference tele town hall meeting telephone town hall polling town hall teleconference Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:15 -0500 Until now, members of Congress seem to have had a monopoly on using the popular telephone town hall service.  But that is all changing now and the technology is finding a home with state and local officials as well, and even non-profit organizations interesting in reaching out to their members.  County supervisors, county executives, state legislators, and city mayors and other elected officials such as city county members, are finding that this service is the fastest, easiest and least expensive way to speak directly to their constituencies.

The concept is stunningly simple and brilliant -- a local official can start a town hall meeting from his or her office or home.  The system automatically dials tens of thousands of phone numbers, inviting people to opt-into the teleconference.  (If they aren't interested in joining, they can just hang up.)  Once an invited person opts-in, they are placed into the conference call and can listen to the official or leader from the comfort of their home.  No scheduling, no event planning, no trying to get people out of their homes to attend a physical town hall setting.  The beauty if that everyone can stay right where they are, and enjoy all the benefits of hearing directly from their elected officials or organizational leaders.  No one has to spend time, energy, gas, or even fight the weather to listen in and/or participate in the virtual town hall meeting by asking questions or taking surveys.

State and county officials have large districts and telephone town hall services can have a significant impact on improving name recognition, and more importantly, voter approval ratings.  Since the service allows you to conduct Question and Answer sessions (in a controlled environment) and conduct surveys at the same time, elected officials have a new way to conduct outreach and keep closer tabs on what their constituents are thinking.

You can get much more information here for telephone town hall services.

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-teleconfer.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/11/telephone-town-hall-teleconfer.html Telephone Town Hall Town Hall TeleConference tele town hall meeting telephone town hall town hall teleconference Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:30 -0500 We enjoying writing and submitting articles to EzineArticles.com.  Not only does it expand our marketing reach to folks who wouldn't otherwise find us, but it also sharpens our thoughts about what we do and how we do it.  It's a good exercise to distill all the technical jargon we surround ourselves with all day, and reformat it in such a way as to make it easy to understand and follow.

In fact, that's a big problem with suppliers and providers of IT services like us.  We get so wrapped up in operations that we sometimes can get off track in making sure our services are both efficient and user friendly.  If you can't understand what we're talking about, then we aren't doing our job very well.

So, if you have ever wanted to know how to send recorded messages, here's a convenient link to help you.  And when you're done reading the article, there is another link that comes right back at us and puts you right on our phone broadcasting page.  (Or, better you, you can even skip the article and just click on the phone broadcasting link above and learn all you want to know about how to send recorded message.

How to Send Recorded Phone Messages
]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/easy-link-to-new-post-at-ezine.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/easy-link-to-new-post-at-ezine.html Phone Broadcasting sending recorded messages Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:44:59 -0500 The future is here and it's call FOIP (Fax Over Internet Protocol)!  In simple terms, it's call computer faxing.  There are some new and fascinating reports out that are projecting the computer based fax market will increase substantially from now until 2013.  In fact, 2009 will be a turning point in the fax industry because it will be the first year that digital FOIP (will outsell traditional faxing technology.

The Research and Markets group is not offering a comprehensive analysis that predicts "overall fax server revenues will show an increase of 10.5% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) to $470 million in 2013."  Moreover, the growth will not be in traditional fax services, but rather in FOIP technology.  The report states, "This growth will be primarily the result of the FOIP market, which will gain primacy in 2009 as the market sells $145 million in FOIP servers and just $130 million in conventional fax servers.  The quick rise by FOIP servers will be the result of the economic malaise, which will cause many enterprises and (VOIP) service providers to change to FOIP in order to cut costs."

So there you have it.  A trend that will basically render your old fax machine to the junk heap of  office technology.  Not only can you cut costs with computer faxing, but even better is that your desktop computer can be converted into a mini-FOIP fax server WITHOUT any hardware or software.  Amazing!  Give us a call today and let us show you how easy it is to jump on this bandwagon that will revolutionize the way you conduct business.  You won't know how you got along without it for so long.  
]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/think-fax-is-dead-oh-no-its-ju.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/think-fax-is-dead-oh-no-its-ju.html Computer / Internet Faxing Computer Fax FOIP Fax Over Internet Protocol Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:24:19 -0500 Tens of thousands of businesses and offices are switching to an Internet based phone system to save monthly charges.  It's called Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) and your local cable company is standing on its head to get you to sign up for their phone service.  That's fine, but one of the difficulties you might encounter is that your office fax machines won't work on a VOIP telephone network.  The fax machines run on an analog technology and VOIP is digital.  Two completely different worlds, that by and large, don't co-exist well.

But there is a solution!  New fax technology has made it possible for you to enjoy the low costs of VOIP, and enjoy the advantages of computer faxing at the same time.  You don't even need your old fax machine or fax lines anymore because you can do all your fax sending and receiving right from your desktop computer, or laptop.  In effect, your problems are really a blessing in disguise, because when you convert over to the new technology you'll be saving additional resources and money, not mention having your faxes automatically digitized for printing, storing and forwarding purposes.  

You can get a lot more technical information about why traditional fax machines don't work with VOIP connections, at this website:  http://www.soft-switch.org/foip.html

You can get more information on the many benefits of computer faxing at our website here:  http://www.orangepoint.net/computerfax.html

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/getting-your-old-fax-machine-t.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/getting-your-old-fax-machine-t.html Computer / Internet Faxing Computer Fax faxing on VOIP (Internet) Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:34:31 -0500 computer fax service several "nice" things begin happening.  For starters, you can get some sleep at night because you'll know you'll never lose another fax again.  ALL of your inbound faxes are backed up on a secured website for 30 days to protect against any disasters such as computer crashes or outages, or heaven forbid, an entire office being wiped out by a fire or natural disaster.  Protecting your communications with this kind of backup is essential these days and should be a part of any business continuity plan your organization prepared.  However, it is one of the last things anyone thinks about.  Generally speaking, most offices are involved in some sort of computer backup program.  However, how is anyone going to replace the hard copy faxes they receive that are in physical filing cabinets, if there was a fire?  Now, you don't have to worry about such things.  First, you can get a full month of automatic backup included in your nominal fee, and second, once the faxes are digitized and sent to you email inbox, you can include those documents as part of your normal and routine computer backup (which hopefully is offsite.)  You can access your secured online account where the backup faxes are stored and log into at anytime to easily manage all of your faxes in one place.  You can monitor outgoing and incoming faxes -- you can even schedule faxes to be sent at times in the future.  Take a look at this new technology and join the new breed of business and organizational leaders who have taken their faxing to the next level.  Give us a call.  We'll look forward to helping you ever step of the way.

]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/inbound-faxes-stored-for-30-da.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/inbound-faxes-stored-for-30-da.html Computer Fax business continuity fax backup faxes stored online Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:17:34 -0500 Virtual Fax machine.  Can you imagine not having to deal with extra phone lines, or ink or paper?  Better yet, you automatically receive your faxes on your email which can be picked up anywhere you have an online connection.  That's right -- the documents that folks are faxing you is instantly converted in the background into a PDF file which is attached to your email.  From their point of view, nothing changes.  They have no idea that what they are faxing you is being digitized and sent to your email in box.  It's all transparent.  If there are any changes they notice, it will be the fact that they will never get a busy signal when they transmit a message to you.  And as far as capacity is concerned, the service is unlimited.  You could receive a 1000 faxes a day, and you'll receive them all without a glitch.  Once you receive your virtual fax, you can do whatever you want with it -- you can print it out, store it on your harddrive, or forward it easily to other associates.  Why are millions of offices and organizations converting to a virtual fax environment?  Because using your computer to send faxes, or using your computer to receive faxes, is not only easy and cost effective, but also secure, efficient and environmentally friendly. ]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/virtual-desktop-fax.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/virtual-desktop-fax.html Computer Fax virtual desktop fax Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:14:41 -0500 PC Faxing, Fax to Email or Fax2Mail.  For the purposes of our website, we call it Computer Fax, because that seems to us to be the most simple explanation and label.  Basically is turns your computer, or laptop or mobile device into a mini-fax server.  Amazingly, there is no hardware or software to buy because it is an online service that operates in the background on the Internet.  Today, there are millions of users from multinational corporations to at-home businesses that are taking advantage of this revolutionary technology that is transforming business communications.  Far from being dead, faxing is alive and well -- it's just taken on a different form.  Hard copy faxes are being replaced by digital faxes and they are becoming much easier to handle.

If you want more detailed information about the advantages of Computer Fax, click on the link or give us call at the number above.
]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/computer-fax-services-gaining.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/09/computer-fax-services-gaining.html Computer Fax computer fax emailing faxing pc fax Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:06:45 -0500 broadcast calls to a large number of people for informational, organizational or political purposes, we can help you.  Our system is already set up and ready to go.  Since you share the phone broadcasting system with our other customers you have the advantages of the most technically advanced platform at a fraction of the cost it would be if you did it yourself.  That's the beauty of outsourcing and why most companies find they can save money -- not only that, but it allows to focus and concentrate on your core business.

You'll find broadcasting calls is the simplest, easiest, fastest and least expensive way to get out announcements, notifications, and important updates to your contact list.  Once you set up an account, and get your phone list prepared, there is virtually no ramp up time.  You can get messages out in minutes to thousands of contacts.

So if you need a message delivery service that can send your voicemail to hundreds and thousands of contacts instantly, you've come to the right place.  Give us a call and let us know what you are trying to do, and in return, we promise you to our best to give you the tips and pointers you'll need to get the job done.

Welcome to the world of technology -- it's amazing what you can do today that was nearly impossible only a few short years ago.

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]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/07/latest-articles-on-phone-broad.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/07/latest-articles-on-phone-broad.html Online Phone Dialer OrangePoint Communications Updates Phone Broadcasting Political Robo Calls School Alerts & Notifications Town Hall TeleConference phone broadcasting online phone dialer town hall teleconference articles Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:22:21 -0500 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.  ]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/06/town-hall-teleconference.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/06/town-hall-teleconference.html Town Hall TeleConference phone meeting with citizens Town Hall TeleConference voter outreach Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:02:36 -0500 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. ]]> http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/06/constituent-outreach-with-virt.html http://www.orangepoint.net/blog/2009/06/constituent-outreach-with-virt.html Town Hall TeleConference constituent outreach virtual town hall meeting Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:59:51 -0500