Caller ID Add-on
A standard Telephone Forum call shows up on recipient’s Caller ID’s as an 800 number. This unfortunately works against the desired image of Telephone Forum as a very personal and informal means of mass communication.
Fortunately, our technicians have recently unveiled a customizable Caller ID feature that allows each of your tens of thousands of phone calls to come up with the name of the host. This new feature even allows for a particular phone number specific to the area you are calling from, or the area you are calling to.
If you already have a number that you would like us to use as a caller ID, just send it to us and we can set your account up with that. If you do not have a number and would like to specify the text for a caller ID, you can send us up to 15 characters of text and a forwarding number and we can get an area code set up close to where you are looking for. The cost of this is $50, and it takes about 72 hours to set up previous to your forum.
Bulk Email
One of our newest services is a bulk email blast. If your email software is unable to send to your organization’s full contact list, or if the process is simply too cumbersome and inefficient, PD Connect now offers a low-cost alternative. Our bulk email service personalizes each email much like a mail merge, and automatically tracks and flags bad addresses so that your existing contact list comes back clean. If your total contact list contains both telephone and email information, reminder emails are another way to increase participation in your Telephone Forum.
Additionally, you can schedule your blasts to send on a specific schedule, set up automatic responses, and get live tracking reports via email in return. List purchase is also available based on demographic information and interests, and email blasts can be filtered and targeted using the same information.
Direct Mail
While direct mail is an outdated venue for primary advertising, it can be used to supplement and enhance your other communicative efforts. Introducing new customers or potential membership to products, services and events via an over-saturated mailing market is, in most cases, a waste of resources. However, PD Connect does offer an extensive experience in direct mail development, design, manufacture and mailing services, and we believe that mailed pieces can continue to target an audience after initial contact has been made using more modern methods.
For instance, prospective clients and membership would be interested in a physical mail piece after they have already become comfortable with your organization’s services. A glossy promotional piece that follows a Telephone Forum or a text message alert can be your closing argument in a sales pitch for either commercial products or membership drives. Additionally, you can use demographic and response data gathered from our various other methods of contact to limit your mailings to households that have previously shown interest in your products and services.
Targeted Microsites
We can combine your telephone forum with an inexpensive targeted microsite that operates separately from your existing website. This allows you to tailor contact to the specific group being contacted through your telephone town hall.
Through individual participant ID (made possible with in-call polling) we can drive visitors to a single, focused web page that elicits a desired response. You can ask participants to offer additional contact information (such as email or mailing address), make donations based on the issue most important to that individual, or review a particular product of interest.
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