Kris Kirschner's VoiceMail Vendor
Kris Kirschner references a voicemail vendor he uses which gives you a main box and up to 100 sub-boxes for $40/month. Does anyone know which company that is? Or can recommend anything better?
Thanks, Brian
freedomvoice_com
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On 2004-11-22 11:43, kneeboards wrote:
Kris Kirschner references a voicemail vendor he uses which gives you a main box and up to 100 sub-boxes for $40/month. Does anyone know which company that is?
Thanks, Brian
http://www.voiceconnectinc.com/
it's called the auto pilot voice connect system
I use Ring Central because its alot cheaper per month. Unless you know you are going to need 100 boxes each month i would go with something cheaper. I pay $10 per month with 5 boxes and 150 min per month. They don't do double leg billing when people forward to you.
Just my opinion.
Can anyone offer a testimonial to any of these three voicemail services? (freedomvoice.com, www.voiceconnectinc.com, and www.ringcentral.com) Freedom Voice looked good to me. Voice Connect Inc. had such a bad website that I wasn't sure what was being offered at what cost, but maybe their service is good? Ring Central doesn't seem designed to handle a self-serve voice system and doesn't have all the features (like fax back) that others do. I want callers to be able to get selling information, request more info (voicemail and maybe fax), hear buying info including listings, and be able get to a live person at any time. Any input??
Thanks, Brian
I just set up with freedom voice and have their freedom xtreeme for $29 per month. It has an unlimited number of UST (areas where people can hear a message, but can not leave a message) and I think 5 or 10 mailboxes. It also have fax back for each UST. Each ust can have an unlimited branching structure. meaning that your first branch could be english or spanish, then properties to buy or sell, then each property, etc. Very flexible for information systems. the mail boxes can either forware, email, page, or maybe some other option. The customer support has been very helpful.
Brenda
Brenda,
Thanks for the input. I am leaning towards Freedom Voice too. They seem to have the most robust package. I was considering the light, with UST and daily email statistics ($20 total). I understood, though, that each from each of the unlimited USTs a caller could leave a message or reach a live person? Your post makes it sound like they can't leave a message?
Thanks again, Brian
You may consider www.kall8.com as they are simply an 800 forwarder. They can capture and email you call logs and you can get free voicemail. The cost is only $2-5/mo depending on your number and 6.9c/min.
Works great for low volume. You can also have multiple phone numbers on one account for easy billing.
myfrogger,
Thanks. We actually use Kall8 today, and they are a great forwarder. We want a more robust VM solution now however. Kall8 has a 5 minute message limit, no ability to get to a live person and a simple VM system that doesn't allow a person to jump around and listen to different info. We will likely still use Kall8, although strictly as a forwarder, as their cheap numbers allow great tracking of marketing. We use different numbers for each campaign and forward all calls to the answering service.
I will likely go with Freedom Voice, but I would really like to hear if anyone has experience with Voice Connect Inc. (Auto Pilot Voice Connect).
Thanks again,
Brian
Quote: Brenda,
Thanks for the input. I am leaning towards Freedom Voice too. They seem to have the most robust package. I was considering the light, with UST and daily email statistics ($20 total). I understood, though, that each from each of the unlimited USTs a caller could leave a message or reach a live person? Your post makes it sound like they can't leave a message?
My understanding is that callers can only leave a message in a mailbox. A UST is not a mailbox. A UST can have an outgoing message, it's own fax back, and other features. But if the caller is in a UST and wants to leave a message you must have "and press 23 to leave a message". Then 23 takes them to a mailbox. With my top of the line I get an unlimited number of UST but still only 5 (maybe 10) mailboxes.
I've used Freedom Voice Systems for about 6 months now, and they seem to be rather solid. i personally like the paging service they have. I have it set up to accept voice mail, then as soon as someone leaves a voicemail it actually calls me on my cell phone to let me listen to the message. You can also do call forwarding as well, but I can not actually take personal calls on my "day job", so the voicemail system works as good as I need it to right now.
Hope this helps,
Chris
Freedom Voice will program the extensions or mailboxes to do whatever you like. The 100 messages can either go to a voicemail with a box# stamp so you know where it came from or return to the main menu like mine does. They didn't seem to have any limitation as to what you can do, just ask.
I use www.ringcentral.com-if your unsure you can use their features free for a 7 day trial -you can actually hear your voicemails attached to an email (.wav file)
I have friend who does decent volume and loves voice connect. After calling the number, you hear an introductory message and can then either leave a mesage or better yet, be connected to a live operator who then proceeds to ask a series of screening questions and then forwards the information to you via email or fax. I definitely am interested in the screening system and do not know of many that have live operators to assist with it.
Sunztu18
I ended up going with Freedom Voice (thanks for the recommendations). They have an (apparently) very good system for self-serve info with endless subboxes for property listings. Callers will have the option at any time of speaking with a live person (an answering service I use). I am just setting it up now, and will know better later.
Voice Connect seemed unprofessional, their website was very unclear about what they were selling, I could never reach a live person (not a good sign), and they didn't have nearly the options of Freedom Voice.
Brian