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In addition, Hunt notes that implementing Ifbyphone has created a new perception of the company among customers, encouraging them to think of FundNET as growing in size.

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I truly believe that being the CEO of a successful company means I am a coach more than I am a “boss.”

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Even marketers who think they know what they’re doing in every channel and discipline, including analytics, may overlook optimizing their greatest conversion tool: the telephone.

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Serial entrepreneur Irv Shapiro’s latest gig is CEO of Skokie-based Ifbyphone Inc., which automates companies’ phone systems.

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New technology has given physicians a long list of automation options, including replacements for human after-hours answering service attendants, patient wellness checks, appointment reminders and overdue account reminders.

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While Groupon is the undisputed tech story of the year in Chicago (if not the world), the immensely profitable, Google-spurning, hundreds of millions of dollars raising deal-of-the-day site is not the only game in town.

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As part of the new investment, The National Association of Realtors will be collaborating with Ifbyphone to develop voice solutions for its 1.1 million members.

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Ifbyphone will help NAR members lower their cost of doing business while also offering them new ways to leverage their marketing and advertising dollars and generate increased sales in the process

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Ifbyphone, which employs about 40 people, develops Web-based software for call-center and other telecom applications, such as call tracking and automated customer notification.

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The company has a web-based service that lets its users track and automate phone calls through a public cloud server.

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NAR is also collaborating with Ifbyphone to develop solutions that enhance voice interactions for its more than 1.1 million Realtor® members.

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Currently, Ifbyphone has about 40 employees and over 3,000 customers. The investment funds will be used to increase staff and develop products.

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But the company, founded by Irv Shapiro in 2005, has raised $16.4 million in funding since that time from a half dozen Illinois and Indiana-based VC firms. Needless to say, Midwest VC’s are really pulling for this one.

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Ifbyphone announced Tuesday that Jason Ferrara has joined the company as VP-marketing. Ferrara was previously VP-corporate marketing at CareerBuilder.com.

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It is pretty easy to integrate phone outcomes data with your web analytics solution

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Using SourceTrak, marketers can now track, qualify, and route calls from traditional ads as well as PPC, SEO, and social media.

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Virtual workers save time and money by eliminating commutes, and employers don’t have to provide an office and everything that goes with it.

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Contributors to the grass roots Ushahidi network use IfByPhone technology to call in and broadcast voice reports of violence all through its website.

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Some businesses are seeing their online marketing campaigns drive more conversions via phone than on the web site.

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Ifbyphone is a provider of telephone call-related services to small and medium-size businesses.

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You can build high-tech companies in Chicago; we did that, and now we’ve acquired a West Coast high-tech company that we’ll integrate it into our Midwest-based organization.

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We’re making call-center telephony web-based, like everything else.

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All told, Ifbyphone’s outbound IVR places about 1,000 automated calls every day to Go Configure customers.

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So far Bandwidth.com is the back-end network for services like Voxeo, ifbyphone, OnState & Yext, which are using its FlexNet product.

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Fast-growing company says it has the SMB apps platform, service providers need only ‘bring your own transport’ to launch instant voice 2.0 offering

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Call tracking numbers can provide a very useful means for measuring the effectiveness of ads.

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Ifbyphone allows small to medium sized businesses to do the things with the telephone that very large businesses routinely do.

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Sounds pretty nice as Ifbyphone’s platform has been leveraged to its maximum potential and small businesses can really fare better on saving cash.

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For any company looking for a flexible, scalable, more or less turnkey telephony solution Ifbyphone is a compelling and cost-effective option . . .

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Hosted call centers offer a good solution for many SMBs dealing with high volumes of sales or service calls . . .

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Through the program, all carriers – including CLECs, ILECs, hosted PBX companies, and cable multi-system operators (MSOs) – can now connect to Ifbyphone and expand their service offerings . . .

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Ifbyphone offers a tremendous set of telephone automation services that are easy for SMB customers to deploy and use, and they offered us a flexible pricing model that was very attractive.

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Buying Ifbyphone’s services through carriers will also help SMBs in at least one way: They will have a one-stop shop for all their telephony needs, from transport to advanced call-handling capabilities.

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As transport prices continue to collapse, CLECs and regional telcos and hosted providers need applications to add value.

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Ifbyphone, launched in 2005, has introduced several products in recent months.

A Skokie startup landed $4.6 million in its second round of venture capital funding to expand its Web-enabled phone product.

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“When you’re going into a recessionary economy, you’re a good investment when you offer companies the ability to save money.”

FierceVoIP announces Ifbyphone as one of the top 15 VoIP companies in 2008.

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FierceVoIP announces Ifbyphone as one of the top 15 VoIP companies in 2008.

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This time around, Ifbyphone addresses one of the key challenges of interactive marketing.

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In the latest “Gee, that’s cool” Voice 2.0 mashup . . . Ifbyphone has created a mashup to integrate direct response call data with web advertising info from Google Analytics.

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Telephone application platform company Ifbyphone made a whopper of an announcement today.

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Today, Ifbyphone hits it out of the park with a simple and brilliant voice mashup solution.

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So far the award for Single Coolest Thing Done With Open Source at the Web 2.0 show has to go to Ifbyphone.

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Smart Conference Calling features an application programming interface (API) that allows Web Developers to integrate “smart” conference calling capabilities instantly to Web sites . . .

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This solution sounds like it will be especially useful for small businesses, especially franchises, associations and other membership organizations that need to initiate conference calls spontaneously for quick consultations.

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Its software applications let small businesses set up virtual call centers and make “live” contact with potential customers without having to hire technicians and phone operators.

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They have continued to evolve by releasing new applications and enhancing their back office infrastructure . . .

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What’s neat about ifbyphone’s service is that, once you set it up, you can have a call center, just like your bigger competitors . . .

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Click-to-call has long been touted for its promise of bringing together the targeting efficiencies of online and the familiarity of traditional phone customer service.

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These applications help any size businesses convert telephone calls into increased sales.

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Ifbyphone is giving marketers and small businesses a fast, cheap, Web-based way to set up a virtual call center . . .

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It’s truly innovative, transforming a simple phone call and wrapping an intelligent recruiting application around it . . .

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By integrating their Web sites with easily configured telephone applications, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can increase lead conversion and close more business.

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Rivals such as Phonevite, Ribbit, Voicestar and even GrandCentral offer some of the same services that Ifbyphone does, but none have put together the entire suite that the company offers in terms of services.

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Ifbyphone has also announced the release of a new Voice Broadcast Application Programming Interface (API) that developers can use to integrate voice broadcast messaging into their own software.

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The real differentiation is around service, and there is no better way to provide a service to your customer than to find a way to talk to them.

Applications for Ifbyphone’s Voice Broadcast technology include traveling managers who need to send a voice memo out to their staff while being away, or for parents who want to reach the entire family all at once.

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Ifbyphone’s virtual receptionist helped to ease the pressure on in-person customer service and gave call-in customers, both existing and prospective, more information . . .

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In a nutshell, they have created an extremely easy to use and cost effective platform for “the rest of us” to create simple Click-to-Call links on Web pages and e-mail to sophisticated call-routing and interactive-marketing solutions-transforming telephones into powerful tools to increase leads, improve sales and enhance customer experience.

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Now you can make free calls to your friends from your Facebook profile thanks to IfbyPhone, a Chicago-based telephone application platform company that has created Phone-Me-Now.

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Additionally, Ifbyphone can do all sorts of things with calls once they’re connected. It can intelligently route them . . . It can send them to automated-response systems . . . It can accept callers’ responses by touch tones, voice recognition or recording, and it can send those responses to the company by email. Ifbyphone also provides message broadcasting.

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Ifbyphone, a Chicago-based text-to-voice service that provides access to e-mail over the phone, unveiled Wednesday an upgrade that allows users to designate notification times and search for particular e-mail messages by sender, subject, or phrase in the text, the company said.

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