Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Formatting Your Rich Text Autodialer Scripts for the Cloud Call Center

You worked hard on tightening, brightening, and sharpening your newly-landed client's script for his end-of-quarter lead generation campaign. You put together all the elements of a compelling script. Than you stumbled upon CallFire and discovered that you can increase your lead generation calls two to three fold with our auto dialer software, the Cloud Call Center.
Monday, February 27, 2012

SMS Gateways and Bulk Text Messaging FAQ's

At CallFire we get a lot of questions as to what an SMS gateway is. The many terms used to describe the large network of mobile carriers and SMS gateways can be quite confusing. To help alleviate any confusion, CallFire has put together a guide to answer some of the more frequently asked questions on SMS gateways.
Friday, February 24, 2012

How to use Autodialers, SMS Text Messaging, and IVR Auto Attendants to Market Your Insurance Agency

Managing leads and increasing market share is on every insurance agent’s mind. CallFire has combed through the user experiences of the company’s large contingent of insurance agents to devise an insurance marketing and lead management best practice guide to grow insurance agencies. This guide focuses on three aspects of insurance marketing for insurance agents: cold calling, lead management, and day-to-day management tasks. These marketing strategies can be narrowed down to 5 essential tips:

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Tips and Best Practice to use Call Tracking Software to Power Your Call Center and Sales Platform

Call tracking is increasingly used by small business to measure ROI on advertising pipelines. Its application as a metrics-gathering tool for advertising makes it an ideal marketing solution. The information that can be garnered from call tracking software also makes it an invaluable call center solution.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

CallFire Announces Call Tracking Webinar for Marketing and Advertising Agencies

here are so many places where online traffic comes from. It is fairly typical, however,  to list only one phone number on the landing page. Putting a unique phone number on a website just won’t suffice when web traffic is coming from so many different sources.

Monday, February 13, 2012

CallFire Announces Change to Number Dialing on Outbound SMS, Autodialer, and Voice Broadcast Services

You’ve requested it, now it’s here. When users upload a list of numbers to CallFire, the numbers will be dialed sequentially. To date, lists were dialed in the order they were uploaded, but in batches of twenty. Meaning that the first twenty numbers on a list would be grabbed, then numbers would be selected in random from that twenty to be dialed. We had requests from our users that numbers be dialed in the strict order they were uploaded in the list.
Monday, February 6, 2012

Developers Corner: CallFire XML Reference Guide

CallFire's IVR platform allows you to quickly build a phone tree as simple or advanced as you want. With our easy-to-use IVR designer just about anyone can use our drag-and-drop interface to build anything from an automated outbound survey, to an auto attendant that will route calls within your office.
Monday, February 6, 2012

IVR 101: Auto-Attendants, Survey, Voicemail and More

One of CallFire’s signature features is the Interactive Voice Response application, or IVR.  For a long time the IVR was a developer tool to make interesting phone applications. However, the practical applications of the tool make IVR technology a staple for any business. This brief article will tell you what an IVR is, how it works, and how you can make the CallFire IVR work for you.
Friday, February 3, 2012

SMS and Telemarketing Compliance

SMS text messaging has revolutionized communication and business marketing. Text messaging allows you to quickly send a concise message that has a higher likelihood of actually being read. While there are many benefits of using SMS as a marketing tool, there are also strict regulations on how text messaging can be used.

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