Voice-Based Marketing Automation Blog

Black Friday 2011: Six business tips to maximize sales

The holidays are approaching fast–is your business ready for Black Friday?

Black Friday: it’s the Super Bowl of retail, the day when businesses large and small hope to hit year-end profit goals and declare shopping season victory. But with the potential for more profit comes …

How Home Services Businesses Can Avoid Visiting Empty Houses

The one thing that unites all home services businesses is the need to interact with customers at their homes. Nothing is more painful that wasting your time, waiting for a customer who isn’t home. It’s a challenge unique to this field, one that needs to …

How Delivery Reminder Calls Save Retail Delivery Companies Big Money

Retail stores selling furniture, appliances, and exercise equipment generally offer customers home delivery after an in store purchase.

In some cases, the retail chains make the delivery using their own trucks and employees. In other cases, the retail store will contract a courier and delivery …

How Health Care Clinics Can Improve Customer Satisfaction

What’s most important to your patients? When it comes to their health, people are looking for great service. Provide a comforting and professional experience for your patients and they’ll keep coming back. The main portion of this effort obviously takes place in the office, but …

6 Benefits of Appointment Reminder Calls

For all the business being done online these days, a huge segment of all industry still requires a face-to-face meeting between client and service provider. Current estimates presume that missed appointments across the health care industry range from 5-7% of all sessions. But it’s not …

3 Benefits of Automated Political Polling Software

Automated polling is commonly used to collect data on public opinion, especially for political polls.

These automated phone surveys offer a number of benefits over phone banks, boiler rooms, or virtual call centers where live people are asking the survey questions.

One major benefit is …

10 Strategies For Automated Outbound Phone Notifications

Automated outbound phone notifications are becoming a popular strategy for improving service and reducing costs. I want to review 10 ways that companies in different industries can send automated outbound IVR or Voice Broadcasting notifications to customers, based on ideas I gathered in a webinar …

Media Advisory For New September 2009 Voice Broadcasting Laws

Are you a looking to interview experts about the FTC’s new Telemarketing Sales Rule Voice Broadcasting requirements? Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro is available to answer your questions. Here are the details from our Media Advisory:

TO:  Business editors, direct marketing media / producers / bloggers…

Scrubbing Your Call Lists for More Efficient Voice Broadcasting

Voice Broadcasting is about reaching the most people to get your message across. After all, when you’re marketing, you can’t promote your service or product if there isn’t an audience. In the Voice Broadcasting world, a call list with disconnected numbers is the enemy, and …

Automated Appointment Confirmation Calls Save Money

Looking to save money on support staff and missed appointments by automating appointment confirmation calls? Here is how you can do it:

Appointment Confirmation Calls can be constructed using our Voice Broadcasting service, which automatically delivers outbound phone calls to your clients’ telephones. Messages …

Seminar Registration Success Through Voice Broadcasting

At Ifbyphone, we like to share customers success stories.

Here is one as told by Rachel Tyrrell of The New Renaissance.

Recently, The New Renaissance faced a business challenge because we were short handed and our deadline to register attendees for a seminar …

Voice Broadcasting Service To Make Automated Phone Calls To A List Of People

Are you looking for a way to easily and automatically call a list of people? Maybe you are planning an event and want to call everyone reminding them to RSVP. Maybe you are a coach reminding your team about the time and location of the …