Automatic Dialer
If you have tried telephone dialer services for lead purposes chances are your first time was unsuccessful
. There are many things to a successful campaign. My first time using predictive dialing equipment for marketing purposes cost me a lot of money. Voice Broadcasting leads can be generated in huge amounts but make sure to do it right. I hope by checking out these voice broadcasting pricing tips you will not do what cost me so much. Prior to providing auto dialer/voice broadcasting services to clients I was the vice president of traffic generation for a large mortgage company. My job was simply to.get the phones to ring! We had many loan advisors on our sales floor getting live call transfers. When we first started automated calls I figured all I had to do was set up the dialers, record a call broadcast or promotion script and make the phones light up. I failed. We totaled 23 live calls total and it cost us $73 per live call totaling $1679 in minutes not to mention the cost of data. We used auto dialer freeware so in this case we did not have to pay for the actual auto dialer machine. Why pay for the machine when you can just use the freeware.
To avoid this from happening consider the following.....
Make sure you understand how auto dialing per minute billing works. Two similar campaigns can make the same amount of dials but one campaign will cost you 10 times as much. You must ask how their minute billing increment billing is charged. The lowest price is not always the lowest total cost. For example, Let's say COMPANY [X] charges in 60 second increments. That means you will be charged a whole minute regardless if the call last 5 seconds. This is how various companies advertise rates like 1.1 cents per minute or less. What they do not tell you is you are being billed in 60 second increments and charged for auto dialer usage time as instead of to connected calls. Each call will cost you at least one minute or 1.1 cents even if the disposition of the call is "no answer". COMPANY [Y] offers the same automatic dialing services but billing is in 6 second increments are as low as 2 cents and does not charge unless there is a connection. So, if 5,000 of your calls result in "no answer" you would be charged $0 by COMPANY [Y] and 5,000 minutes or $55 by COMPANY [X]. Then, let's say 1000 people answered the phone but hung up 5 seconds into the call. COMPANY [X] charges 1,000 minutes or $11. COMPANY [Y] would charge 100 minutes or $3.50 because there are 10 six second increments in one minute and each minute is 3.5 cents (100 x .035 = $3.50) As you can see, making the right decision will always save you money that means additional calls that amount to more income.
by: chris2w0zte