Phone Blast Service Delivers Prerecorded Messages
By Lee Simonson
A phone blast service can instantly deliver thousands of messages and is becoming the preferred method to get notifications and alerts out to a wide audience quickly. While not everyone has access to email (or even reads it), it's a safe bet that most people are within reach of a landline or cell phone. Even if a recipient doesn't answer the phone directly, phone blast preferences can be set to leave a message to voice mail that can be picked up soon after by the recipient.
The primary advantages of using a phone blast service involve savings, both from a financial and time viewpoint, including a quick ramp up. Organizations -- business, non-profit, and political -- can save a small fortune by outsourcing phone and call blast services because there is no need to invest in any hardware or software or expensive telephone lines. Phone blast companies already have the capacity and jobs can be literally conceived, launched and delivered in a matter of minutes.
Phone and call blast jobs are accomplished online. You can simply organize your phone list in an database program (Excel spreadsheets work fine) and upload your list at the phone blast server website. Phone numbers should be formatted in one column and include the area code. After the phone list is uploaded, then you can do your recording over the phone. Once that's done, your phone blast service provider can link your list and recording together and launch the job for you, or you can launch it yourself if you have web access.
All in all, the process is quick and easy and considering that it only costs a few cents to deliver each pre-recorded message, phone blasting is the fastest way to achieve a high penetration rate among a diverse audience of constituents. The only downside to phone blasting are restrictive laws that prohibit sending commercial or non-informational messages. The FTC has recently issued new regulations that prohibit messages offering goods or services being delivered without first having written consent. Needless to say, 99.9% of the American public at least, has never given its written consent to receive any phone calls, let alone the majority of Americans who are on the Do Not Call list.
However, informational phone blasts such as school emergencies or closings, airline schedule changes, appointment confirmations, product recalls, health alerts, and the like are perfectly permissible.
It is also important to retain a phone blast provider who has the ability to put your organization's phone number in the Caller ID, so when people get the call they know it's coming from you and not some unknown place. The law also makes it clear that you need to identify yourself and having the proper Caller ID in place helps you conform to the new laws.
A word to the wise: If you are a commercial enterprise that offers goods or services, begin your campaign to capture customer or prospect phone numbers that includes a box that provides for written confirmation enabling you to send messages to your phone list. That permission is now essential and you need to incorporate that opt-in process within your marketing campaigns as soon as possible.
Phone blasting, or robo calling, can, and will, revolutionize the way people communicate and a phone blast service bureau will provide you a tremendous convenience in organizing and implementing your campaign. You'll be surprised just how easy it is to get started.
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