Phone Blast Voicemail Sends Notifications Out Fast
By Lee Simonson
Broadcasting phone blasts to voicemail or answering machines is the most inexpensive and effective way to get message notifications out fast.
Also known as voice or phone broadcasting, call blasting, or automated calling, the technology now exists that enables you to get a large quantity of messages to your audience simultaneously. Messages can be for emergency notifications, reminders, schedule cancellations or changes, delivery or appointments. Fortunately, you don't need any hardware, equipment or software to initiate a phone blast program since service bureaus offer an easy and cost effective way to tap into their mass calling systems.
Recent laws in the United States prohibit the use of phone blasts for the purposes of sales or telemarketing. Business can however use phone blasting as a communications tool if, and only if, their customers have given them written permission to call them. Moreover, calls that are made for "informational" purposes (non-sales calls) are permitted. Such information calls would include alerts for school closings, flight delays, college alumni events, and other similar announcements.
One valuable feature of the phone blast service is the system's ability to identify a person picking up the phone to answer, versus a voicemail or answering machine. Depending on your application, you can have the system play the recorded message to a live person who answers, or leave a message when it hears the answering machine beep. And it doesn't have to either/or. It can do both at the same time. If you are calling during the day, when 70% of Americans are not home, you will end up leaving more messages on voicemail. That is ideal for certain purposes because your message won't interrupt or disturb anyone and your recipients can listen to it at their convenience.
Setting up a phone blast account is easy and quick and you have your choice of either launching the jobs yourself or having a professional do it for you. Everything can be done online. Your primary responsibility is to properly format your list of phone numbers, and writing and delivering a message script for your recording, which can be done over the phone.
Once you have your account, your phone list and your recorded message, you're good to go and you can begin your phone blast at anytime. Your costs will be determined by the number of phone numbers on your list, the length of your message and how many were successfully delivered. Generally speaking, you are best to pay by the minute since you will only pay for the number of calls that were connected, in contrast to paying per phone number. Why pay for calls that are busy, no answers or disconnected.
Overall, you will find broadcasting phone blasts can be a convenient and easy way to reach thousands of people at once. Not everyone reads their email everyday, but most people have cell phones or can be reached by phone quickly.
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