Broadcasting a phone blast to a voice mail system or answering machine is both inexpensive and very effective whenever you need to get a message out fast.
Using Voice Mail Systems For Call Blasting
Call blasting or automatic calling (a.k.a. voice or phone broadcasting) will enable you to get a lot of messages to your entire audience at once. These messages can be for emergency notifications, reminders, schedule cancellations or changes, delivery or appointment reminders. Regardless of your purpose, you won’t need to have any hardware, equipment or software in order to tap into your customers’ voice mail systems.
Laws In Regards To Call Blasting
There are recent laws within the United States that prohibit phone blasting for sales or telemarketing purposes. However, if your customers provide you with written permission to leave such messages on their voice mail systems, you can do so. This is especially true of those messages that are informational in nature.
Benefits Of Call Blasting
One of the most valuable features is the service’s ability to differentiate between a human and a voice mail system. This will allow you to ensure that you deliver it either to a human, to a voice mail system or to both, depending upon your needs.
How To Set Up A Voice Mail System For Call Blasting
It is both quick and easy to set up a phone blast account. You can go online and do this yourself or have a professional do it for you. Regardless of how you set it up, you will still need to have a list of phone numbers and a message to record. This message is usually recorded over the phone.
A Final Word About Using Your Voice Mail System For Call Blasting
Once you have a phone blast account, a phone list and have recorded your message you can begin phone blasting anytime you want to. How much this service will cost you will depend upon the number of phone numbers you have, how long your message is and whether it was successfully delivered. It is best to pay by the minute in case half of your messages encountered a voice mail system and you didn’t want to leave a message there. Plus, you also don’t want to have to pay for calls that are busy, no answers or disconnected. Nevertheless, you will find that broadcasting phone blasts is both convenient and easy to do. You can also rest assured that while not everyone always reads their email, most of them will have a cell phone where you can quickly reach them or their voice mail system with relative ease.