Ifbyphone Debuts New VoteByPhone Application For Live, Real-Time Audience Phone Polling at SingStrong
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Posted on March 9, 2010 at 8:28:01 AM
Ifbyphone Debuts New VoteByPhone Application For Live, Real-Time Audience Phone Polling at SingStrong
VoteByPhone Enables Easy, Live-Audience Polling For Events of Any Size, Type
CHICAGO, March 9 -- Ifbyphone today announced VoteByPhone, a live-audience-polling application for simple, real-time polls over the phone. VoteByPhone premiered at the SingStrong A Cappella Festival this past weekend, enabling a live audience of 600 people to vote for the winner of the A Cappella Idol competition.
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SingStrong's use of VoteByPhone demonstrated how quickly and easily the application can be configured by anyone interested in real-time survey results, including live-audience events, radio stations, conferences, advertising agencies and political campaigns.
"In the past, SingStrong audiences had to wait patiently, or even not so patiently, as our team raced to count their votes. Those days are gone forever," said Jonathan Minkoff, Executive Director of SingStrong. "Not only does VoteByPhone give us the results we need immediately, and with perfect accuracy, but our audience actually gets to watch those results as they happen."
To launch a VoteByPhone poll, users create a new "VoteByPhone Polling Event" in their Ifbyphone accounts. They then set up a list of voting options, such as a list of performers, issues raised in the day's news, or topics of current interest to vote on, and configure custom audio files to greet each caller.
The process is even easier for voters, who call in, listen to a recorded greeting message, and press a number on their keypads to vote. Results can be seen via any web browser in real-time.
"VoteByPhone makes it easy for anyone to set up a real-time survey that audience members can respond to over the phone," said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro, "Our customers tell us they value the ability to create interactive presentations, get audience feedback and display real-time results."
As an example, a radio show could spontaneously set up a poll, tell listeners to call into a toll-free number to vote, and report over the air in real-time which options listeners chose, without any technical expertise or staff to answer calls. In addition, instead of voting by text message, which is unsafe for drivers, voters can call VoteByPhone from hands-free Bluetooth® headsets or speakerphones.
Shapiro continues, "At Ifbyphone, we are committed to providing a one-stop shop for all of our users' telephone-application needs. From call tracking to virtual call centers, we pride ourselves on providing applications designed for business leaders to configure from an easy-to-use web site without programmer assistance."
A beta version of VoteByPhone is currently available to all Ifbyphone customers. For more information about VoteByPhone, or other Ifbyphone applications such as Call Tracking, IVR, Voice Broadcasting, and Virtual Call Center, visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
About Ifbyphone
Ifbyphone is a Cloud Telephony company that provides businesses a suite of phone automation services to enhance customer communications, increase sales and lower costs. With Ifbyphone's easy-to-use hosted services and tools, marketers, developers and business users can quickly create telephony systems to drive customer retention and acquisition. For more information, visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
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CONTACT: Cheryl Cink, +1-530-756-4630, ccink@comunicano.com, for
Ifbyphone
Web Site: http://www.ifbyphone.com/
VoteByPhone Enables Easy, Live-Audience Polling For Events of Any Size, Type
CHICAGO, March 9 -- Ifbyphone today announced VoteByPhone, a live-audience-polling application for simple, real-time polls over the phone. VoteByPhone premiered at the SingStrong A Cappella Festival this past weekend, enabling a live audience of 600 people to vote for the winner of the A Cappella Idol competition.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/LA94596LOGO)
SingStrong's use of VoteByPhone demonstrated how quickly and easily the application can be configured by anyone interested in real-time survey results, including live-audience events, radio stations, conferences, advertising agencies and political campaigns.
"In the past, SingStrong audiences had to wait patiently, or even not so patiently, as our team raced to count their votes. Those days are gone forever," said Jonathan Minkoff, Executive Director of SingStrong. "Not only does VoteByPhone give us the results we need immediately, and with perfect accuracy, but our audience actually gets to watch those results as they happen."
To launch a VoteByPhone poll, users create a new "VoteByPhone Polling Event" in their Ifbyphone accounts. They then set up a list of voting options, such as a list of performers, issues raised in the day's news, or topics of current interest to vote on, and configure custom audio files to greet each caller.
The process is even easier for voters, who call in, listen to a recorded greeting message, and press a number on their keypads to vote. Results can be seen via any web browser in real-time.
"VoteByPhone makes it easy for anyone to set up a real-time survey that audience members can respond to over the phone," said Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro, "Our customers tell us they value the ability to create interactive presentations, get audience feedback and display real-time results."
As an example, a radio show could spontaneously set up a poll, tell listeners to call into a toll-free number to vote, and report over the air in real-time which options listeners chose, without any technical expertise or staff to answer calls. In addition, instead of voting by text message, which is unsafe for drivers, voters can call VoteByPhone from hands-free Bluetooth® headsets or speakerphones.
Shapiro continues, "At Ifbyphone, we are committed to providing a one-stop shop for all of our users' telephone-application needs. From call tracking to virtual call centers, we pride ourselves on providing applications designed for business leaders to configure from an easy-to-use web site without programmer assistance."
A beta version of VoteByPhone is currently available to all Ifbyphone customers. For more information about VoteByPhone, or other Ifbyphone applications such as Call Tracking, IVR, Voice Broadcasting, and Virtual Call Center, visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
About Ifbyphone
Ifbyphone is a Cloud Telephony company that provides businesses a suite of phone automation services to enhance customer communications, increase sales and lower costs. With Ifbyphone's easy-to-use hosted services and tools, marketers, developers and business users can quickly create telephony systems to drive customer retention and acquisition. For more information, visit http://www.ifbyphone.com.
Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091020/LA94596LOGO
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: Ifbyphone
CONTACT: Cheryl Cink, +1-530-756-4630, ccink@comunicano.com, for
Ifbyphone
Web Site: http://www.ifbyphone.com/