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The Communicator I System
  • This is a stand-alone autodialing system

  • Suggested retail for this product is $3999 (see below for discount price)

  • You don't need to be a computer expert to run our system

  • Our system does not require a computer to function

  • No need to add hardware to your computer

  • No complex software to install

  • Built-in floppy drive for storing & loading your messages

  • Build-in printer automatically prints out the phone numbers of your leads

  • Manufactured by Singer Electronics: 27 years as an industry leader

  • All sales are final and require a signed document affirming legal intent of use *

  • This product is not for everyone or every business.  It is great for most political campaigns, non-profit organizations, and many other LEGAL uses.

  • This is an extremely powerful and configurable product that allows exclusion of numbers that will not be called.

  • We provide lengthy detailed product information including the product manual so that you can make sure that this product is for you.  For those situations this product is a great bargain when you consider that it is designed to last for decades.

 

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Communicator I
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  1. 2-line system.
  2. Multi-message Capability
  3. Program Dialing
  4. Memory Retention
  5. Duplicate number alert
  6. Search and Edit
  7. Interval Dialing
  8. Jump by 200
  9. Dial Up To and After
  10. Don't Call Numbers
  11. Interval-Program Dialing
  12. Lead and time
  13. Remote Retrieval
  14. Safeguard Override
  15. Consent calling
  16. Screen call status
  17. Hello Chip, Business Chip
  18. Adjust response time
  19. Number Files
  20. Statistics
  21. Starting and stopping time sessions
  22. Pre-dialing
  23. Polling feature
  1. Printer
  2. Call transfer
  3. Click detect
  4. Hang up detect
  5. Screen
  6. Battery Backup
  7. Busy re-dial
  8. Answering Machine
  9. Access Code
  10. Answer Ring 1/3/5/Don't Answer
  11. Number Re dialing
  12. Rental Protection
  13. Phone Line Adjustment
  14. Volume Control
  15. Power supply
  16. Lead recording
  17. 1 Second Delay
  18. Escape key
  19. 1 or 2 or 3 no answer
  20. Rotary or touchtone dialing
  21. Set the clock
  22. Recording and Editing your Messages
  23. Editing features
  1. Record Response
  2. Beep Tone
  3. Number Transfer and Verify
  4. Download Numbers
  5. Ringing time
  6. Impress the called party
  7. Large battery
  8. Dialing pause to get leads
  9. Out of numbers call
  10. Sophisticated Answering Machine
  11. Programmable by Remote Phone
  12. Hello, Business, Answering Machine - ABC feature
  13. ABX Feature
  14. Silent Mode
  15. Permission Mode
  16. Branching
  17. RS232 Port
  18. Baud Rates
  19. Reads text
  20. Sorts numbers
  21. Statistics to printer
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  1. 2-line system. Communicator I is a 2-line out-bound/in-bound message delivery system. It automatically makes telephone calls at a preset time and can deliver the same message on 2 phone lines. Or you deliver a specific message to a specific phone number at a specific time. Or you can use one line for outbound calls and the second line for inbound, or even both lines for inbound calls. Communicator I is a totally digital system--no tape drives are used for storing or delivering voice messages.
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  2. Multi-message Capability. In-bound or out-bound it can deliver up to 60 separate messages to your clients, prospects or contacts. In the out-bound mode you may select which message you want delivered to any number or set of numbers stored in memory.
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  3. Program Dialing. This Mode is used when you want to program or enter specific numbers by hand or download files of numbers from a host computer into Communicator I 's memory for it to dial. The basic system holds 10,000 individual phone numbers.
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  4. Memory Retention. Example: 1-503-782-4731. You are able to store in memory, 1-503-782-47 and thus manually enter the last two numbers only. Or you can store 1-503-782- and then only enter the last four digits. Or enter 782- and again, only the last four digits. This makes it much faster to enter a long list of phone numbers with the same area code or prefix.
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  5. Duplicate number alert. If you accidentally enter a duplicate phone number it will beep you to alert you of your mistake and let you decide if you want to duplicate that number in memory or not.
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  6. Search and Edit. Once you've created a file of numbers you can upload them into a host computer for storage or editing. But if your numbers are still in the Communicator I memory you may locate a specific phone number to edit it or delete it. You can also quickly scroll to the front or back of your number file.
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  7. Interval Dialing. In Interval Dialing you can set the machine to begin dialing for example at 668-0000 and to stop dialing at 668-9999. We call it interval dialing because dialing number after number, as 668-0000, 668-0001, 668-0002 and so on, is illegal. To get around this ruling we use intervals of 10, where we jump by 10, as 668-0000, 668-0010, 668-0020 and so on. All the numbers in that prefix are still covered even though the system jumps by 10. Communicator I stores 50 prefixes or 500,000 phone numbers in memory which it can dial uninterrupted, except for the time you want it to stop working.
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  8. Jump by 200. In some instance when you're dialing a 10,000 number prefix you'll run into hospitals, business conglomerates or government offices that have 500 or more phone numbers. To avoid irritating the public, you also have the ability to make the system jump by 200 every time it makes a call and thus not make contact with that business as often. It will still cover every number in that prefix though.
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  9. Dial Up To and After. Let's say that in a prefix, a block of 1,000 phone numbers, from 668-4000 to 668-5000 is taken up by a hospital. If you're aware of that, and in order to not disturb critically ill patients who would get your call in their rooms, set your machine to call from 668-0000 to 668-3999, then 668-5000 to 668-9999. Then your machine will not dial any of that hospital's numbers.
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  10. Don't Call Numbers. You may not want your system to call certain numbers in a prefix, as the police department, emergency services, fire department, irate people who have previously asked not to be called again, phone numbers of previous leads, phone numbers in a phone book with a dot beside them which let's you know that it is against the law to call them with a commercial solicitation, etc. What you can do is create a file of numbers which are labeled "don't call numbers" and as the system goes through the prefix and it encounters that particular number, it will simply skip over it and go on to the next number. Your system will hold 50 prefixes. Of the 10,000 numbers in a prefix, 9,999 can be "don't call numbers." When you have a short block of numbers you don't want the system to call, start with a beginning number, as 668-2000. Press Enter and the system accepts that number into memory, and it will not dial it during its routine calling efforts. Then press + and 668-2001 appears on the screen. Press Enter, then + and Enter and the numbers keep increasing until you're finished with that block of numbers.
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  11. Interval-Program Dialing. You can record 2 messages into memory. It is then able to make telephone calls in Interval Dialing for one time period, in one day, and deliver the first message in memory, and Program Dialing for another time period, the same day, and deliver the second message. Let's say that you want your system to make calls from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM in Interval Dialing, on both lines, to locate new prospects for your business. Then at 8:00 PM it can start to call phone numbers you've entered into memory in Program Dialing with a relevant message to existing customers, as "Thanks for your business", "Happy Birthday", "Merry Christmas", "Your policy is about to expire", "Please call me about an important matter", "I have something that may interest you", "When would you like us to ship", etc.
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  12. Lead and time. When you listen to the leads and see the phone number of the lead on the screen, the time and the day the lead was recorded is also shown. This feature will save you endless hours of frustration when you're trying to make contact with the person who left their name. If they're home at 3:00 PM (the time they left the lead on Communicator I) they'll probably be home at 3:00 PM the next day when you make your follow-up call.
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  13. Remote Retrieval. You may call your system and retrieve your leads from another phone. The names and addresses and other responses of the leads are played back. In addition, the time the lead was recorded and the phone number of the lead is audibly given to you. You can easily stop the system from playing the next lead by the push of a button on your phone, in order to have time to write down that lead. Or you can have it repeat a lead, or go backwards or forwards, and finally you can erase all the leads once you're confident you've written down all the information correctly.
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  14. Safeguard Override. Most States only allow you to make calls from 9:00 AM till 9:00 PM. Therefore a safeguard is built in which won't let the system call after or before those hours. However, an override is included, so that you could actually make calls 24 hours per day. You can use this feature when you need to get in touch with business contacts after hours, or when calling long distance to different time zones. You decide when you want your important messages to be delivered.
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  15. Consent calling. In certain States a ruling exists that says that you have to ask permission of the called party to play them a commercial message. After the called party answers the machine might say "Hello, I have a short message on how you could save up to 30% on your car insurance. If you would like to hear this message, kindly press #1 on your touchtone phone." If they say nothing, or if they don't press #1 within 5 seconds, or if they hang up, Communicator I disconnects immediately and makes the next call.
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  16. Screen call status. As the system is making its dialing calls, the 2-line screen will tell you the status of each call. When it makes a call it will show the number it's calling. Once it senses an answer it will either show "talking", while it's delivering a message, or other responses to the call, as "modem", "fax", "answering machine", "business", "operator"--which indicates that it reached either an operator intercept or tape recording telling it that that phone number is not in service. If it reached a human who said "hello" and then delivered its message and the called party wants to talk to a human attendant, "waiting" shows on the screen to indicate to the human attendant to grab the line and "close" the sale. Music plays during this "waiting" time. Finally, the result of that call, as "busy","no answer", "hang up", or "lead" flashes on the screen, briefly, before it dials the next number. You'll discover what speed and efficiency is all about when you watch this system work.
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  17. Hello Chip, Business Chip. The "hello chip" allows the system to deliver its message to people who only say "hello." If you use the "hello chip" it will only deliver its message to homeowners and will, in most cases, disconnect on businesses, answering machines, modems, fax machines, operator intercepts, and numbers not in service recordings. If you use the "business chip" for calling it will deliver its message to "hello" and to businesses, but hang up on all the other responses on the phone line.
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  18. Adjust response time. People in the South talk slower than those in New York. You have the ability to adjust the "set" time for the "hello" and "business chip". Adjustments can be made in 1/10th second increments so the system can be fine-tuned to your particular calling area.
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  19. Number Files. After your system completes a call it puts that number into different categories or files, depending on the result of the call. Thus after it completes a day's dialing it will have files or groups of numbers of a. numbers that were busy, b. no answer, c. numbers not in service with a 3-tone signal or "You have reached a number not in service" recording, d. modems, e. fax machines, f. answering machines, g. those that listened to the message but didn't respond to any questions, h. leads, i. hang ups, and j. business numbers. You can separate the different files of numbers and decide which ones you want to keep to re-dial right away or upload into a host computer for re-dialing in the future, or which sets of numbers to erase from memory. You can have any of these files printed out for a visual record. When you want to call that same prefix again you can download the files you've selected into Communicator I's active memory. If you want a "clean" file to redial you can leave off the numbers of the leads from the previous session or any other category. The system can also make phone calls and not deliver a message but, instead, quickly hang up on whoever or whatever answered the phone. It will know who or what answered the phone. This is valuable for companies that want to find lists of phone numbers in different categories, as business numbers, homeowners, faxes, modems, answering machines, etc. All number files must be uploaded to the floppy drive or used as desired before 9:00 AM the following day. At 9:00 AM the files are automatically erased from the day’s dialing of two days before and all files from the day before are written to the floppy.
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  20. Statistics. The system provides statistics or a compilation of the results of the calls for each category, as listed in #19, above. That is, how many numbers were busy, how many no answers, etc. In addition, the system can, on command, print out the amount of people who hung up after each second of the outgoing message. This way you'll know how many people hung up on the message after 2 seconds, how many after 3 seconds, how many after 4 seconds, all the way up to 60 seconds. If you see that 75% of your prospects hung up after the 11th second, then it's high time to change the wording of your message.
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  21. Starting and stopping time sessions. You can set three "start and stop" dialing time periods for each day of the week. Once you've made your selection, the system will start and stop dialing according to your settings until it runs out of numbers. You can also tell it not to dial on certain days or certain hours of any day.
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  22. Pre-dialing. In a prefix of 10,000 phone numbers there are usually thousands of "bad" numbers, that is, numbers not in service, operator intercepts, modems and faxes. To abide by most State regulations you must run your system only 12 hours per day, or from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. But in a new prefix there may only be 2,000 good, working numbers, and so your system may spend most of the day simply making calls to non-working numbers. You, of course, want it to deliver its message to homeowners and to reach as many prospective buyers as possible. To overcome the drawback of wading through lots of non-working numbers you can use pre-dialing. Program your machine to make pre-dialing calls 1 or 2 hours before the start of the regular dialing session and possibly 1 or 2 hours afterwards. Or you can select lots of hours on the weekend, on Saturday or Sunday, to do your pre-dialing. In pre-dialing the system makes a call and will allow the phone to ring, at the most, for 1 ring. If it has reached a "bad" number, (non-working phone number, a fax or a modem) it puts those numbers in the "bad" number file, and when the start of your regular dialing session arrives, it dials only good, working numbers. Using pre-dialing your system can probably be twice as productive. However, we as a company, do not make any claims as to the legality or wisdom of using pre-dialing. This feature is included. You, our customer, must decide if it is in your best interest to use it.
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  23. Polling feature. Press 0 for yes, 1 for no. A total of 5 questions can have yes/no responses as, 2 for yes, 3 for no, 4 for yes, 5 for no, 6 for yes, 7 for no, 8 for yes, 9 for no. The printer can print out the phone number and the results after each call. These statistics are automatically compiled for you at the end of the day's dialing session. You can also give the called party multiple choice questions. "On a scale of 1 to 9, 1 being very poor and 9 being very good, how would you rate Representative Young's performance?" You can even ask the called party all the polling questions, which the system tabulates, and then at the end of the questions ask for their name, which it records, and ties to the responses. Political or market polling can be done very efficiently and cost effectively.
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  24. Printer. Communicator I has a very fast and efficient, built-in printer. It will, at the end of the day, automatically print out the phone number of the leads, the time of day of the lead, the last number it dialed at the end of the day and a tabulation of the statistics as mentioned in #20. It can also print out all the other settings you've entered into memory and if you desire it will print out the phone number, the result of the call, and the time of day of the call, after every call it makes. You can also tell it not to print anything at all if you don't need a hard copy of the day's dialing activities.
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  25. Call transfer. If it makes a call and gets a "hot" one who wants to talk to a human attendant about the offer, Communicator I can immediately call you at another number and connect you with the interested party on the other line. Music plays while they're waiting for the call transfer. Once you've "closed" the called party, simply press 0 and the machine disconnects and makes the next call. The second phone line is used to make the transfer call.
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  26. Click detect. This feature makes it possible for the system to detect when the called party hangs up. In our testing it worked close to 100% of the time. A federal law requires that all dialers be able to hang up within 5 seconds after the called party hangs up.
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  27. Hang up detect. In case the click detect is ever disabled, the system will still hang up by another, innovative method.
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  28. Screen. Communicator I has a 16 character by 2 line, full alphabet and numerical screen, which clearly details instructions and programming choices. Everything is menu driven. You make your choices from selections shown on the screen.
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  29. Battery Backup. If your power goes out, a fully charged built-in battery will store and retain all the voice, that is the outgoing messages and the incoming responses, or leads for over 3 days. Another battery backs up the entire programming, phone numbers and times to call, etc., for up to 2 years. The lead acid battery for the voice is sealed and leak-proof. If this battery ever leaks and causes damage to your unit, we will either replace your unit or repair it free of charge.
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  30. Busy re-dial. If your system reaches a busy number it will attempt to call again every 15 minutes. You also have a choice to have it re-dial that number up to 9 times or not have it re-dial at all.
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  31. Answering Machine. You can choose to have the system pause from 1 to 99 seconds in between making outgoing calls, to receive incoming calls. In other words, your system can also be used as a sophisticated answering machine. You can ask up to 5 questions, as "who's calling, the phone number of the calling party, purpose of this call, best time to call them back, etc."
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  32. Access Code. When calling your system to get your leads or other vital messages, you must first enter your personally selected security code. Your code can be up to 16 digits long and you may change your code at any time.
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  33. Answer Ring 1/3/5/Don't Answer. When someone calls the system it can answer the phone on the first ring, the third ring, the fifth ring or if you select "Don't Answer" it will not answer the phone when someone calls the number it’s hooked up to.
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  34. Number Re dialing. You can choose to let Communicator I re-dial the busy and no answer phone numbers for a certain portion of the dialing period. Your system defaults (is set to) re-dial during the last 10% of the dialing period, whether that period is 2 hours long or 12 hours--from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM. You can have 3 dialing time periods as explained in #21 and you can set the system to re-dial from 0% to 100% of the time of a time period. During the first two periods you may want it simply to dial number after number. For that you'd set the re-dial time to 0% for both time periods. If you want the third time period to be used for re-dialing you'd set it to 100%. Then it would spend all of that time period in only re-dialing the busy and no answer numbers from the previous two time periods. If you have only one dialing period per day you may have it re-dial during the last 15% of that time period, or whatever percentage of that time period you choose. Communicator I gives you an incredibly vast array of programming possibilities, which allow you to fine tune your system for maximum efficiency.
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  35. Rental Protection. You may want to rent time on your system to other businesses, political parties, etc. We offer built-in protection, so that the system will not operate, except for the time period you specify--day, week, month, etc. This way if they don't make their payment on time, the machine shuts off and never runs again, unless you call it and program it, over the phone, to run for the next time period.
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  36. Phone Line Adjustment. If necessary, you can easily adjust the line sensitivity to compensate for noisy, staticky phone lines.
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  37. Volume Control. Volume is controlled by keyboard keys. You can monitor the outgoing message and the incoming responses on line 1 or line 2 or both lines at the same time. Turn the volume control off and your system runs completely silently. Through the speaker you can listen to your leads and monitor the system as it's making its solicitation or message delivery calls or as it's receiving calls.
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  38. Power supply. The power supply is UL and CSA approved. Your system will run safely for many years to come. You can leave your system on all the time. It uses only about 10 cents of electricity per month.
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  39. Lead recording. Only leads are recorded. You do not have to listen to the entire message when playing your leads back.
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  40. 1 Second Delay. When using some long distance services you need to first dial a local access number, then your security code, then the area code and number you want to call. In between each of these number segments you may need to have a 3 to 5 second delay. So every time you press the - (minus) key you put a 1 second delay in between the digits of your phone number. This is also useful when you have to first dial 9 to get an outside line, then the number.
  41. Escape key. No matter what the machine is doing, you can press the Esc key and it will go to the clock--the present time of day and day of the month. Then you can make it perform any other function you desire.
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  42. 1 or 2 or 3 no answer. If you select 1 and there is no response to the first question of your outgoing message, the system hangs up and dials the next number. If you select 2 it hangs up if there is no response after 2 questions. The same for 3. This is in case the other two hang up detects have been disabled.
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  43. Rotary or touchtone dialing. Your system can dial in rotary pulse or you select different touchtone dialing speeds.
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  44. Set the clock. Press #1 on your system and you'll be able to change the time of day, day of the week, day of the month, or month, shown on the screen. The time of day is shown in military time--24 hour clock.
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  45. Recording and Editing your Messages. You can record your own outgoing or incoming message by using a microphone or you can download a professionally recorded message from a tape recorder or you can download a message into digital memory through the floppy drive. It is highly recommended that, for optimum results, you use our professionally recorded messages. These messages come to you recorded on a cassette tape or on a floppy. We recommend that you let us record your message and deliver it to you on a floppy diskette. That way the volume settings are all correct and the machine will function optimally.
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  46. Editing features. To make your outgoing message sound as natural and life-like as possible some exclusive editing functions have been added, so you can again, fine-tune your system for optimum results. Ask your sales rep for an explanation of these unique features and how they can benefit you.
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  47. Record Response. You can choose to record or not to record any response from the called party.
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  48. Beep Tone. After a question you can prompt the called party to start talking by a beep tone. But if you choose, you can eliminate the beep tone, and make the message sound as life-like and natural as possible.
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  49. Number Transfer and Verify. If you've entered numbers into the memory of the Communicator I you can transfer those numbers to a floppy diskette or host computer for storage and later re-dialing. Once you've transferred numbers to the floppy or host computer you can verify to see if your numbers transferred cleanly.
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  50. Download Numbers. You can download numbers which are stored on a floppy diskette or in a host computer, into the system's memory, and then have the system dial those numbers at any time.
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  51. Ringing time. When the system makes a call it can let the line ring for 15 seconds or more. You can increase this ringing time by 5 second increments, all the way up to 2 minutes.
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  52. Impress the called party. Someone calls. They hear, "Smith Investments, may I help you?" "Yes, is Mr. Smith there?" "I'm sorry but Mr. Smith is on his way to the airport. One moment please, I'll see if I can reach him on his car phone." After some beeping and buzzing, the woman "secretary" says, "I'm sorry, I'm unable to reach him on his car phone. Would you like me to have him call you as soon as I can reach him?" "Alright, please give me your name again." "What's the phone number where he can reach you?" "And a good time to get back to you." "Any other message for him?" "Thanks for calling and I'll make sure he gets your message right away." No beep tones are used to prompt the called party to make it sound as natural as possible.
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  53. Large battery. The large battery can hold the outgoing messages and incoming responses in memory for over 3 days. That means that we could program the entire machine for you including the outgoing or incoming messages. We'd ship the system to you UPS Second Day Air. You would receive it, plug it in, and it would start dialing and run for a year or longer. All you'd have to do is take off your leads, set the appointments and go make money. If you don't like spending time learning all about the intricacies of this system, then let us do the work for you.
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  54. Dialing pause to get leads. You can command the system to stop dialing and making outbound calls, for 2 minutes, every hour, so you have a chance to call it and get your leads or messages.
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  55. Out of numbers call. If the system runs out of numbers you can have it call you at another phone number to let you know that it needs some "attention."
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  56. Sophisticated Answering Machine. Your system can make outbound calls on one line and receive inbound calls on the other line. One line gives brief information (outbound calls), the other line (inbound) can enlarge on the offer. Or while you're out selling to a lead, the second line can take care of business for you at the office. It can ask the caller up to 7 qualifying or pertinent questions.
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  57. Programmable by Remote Phone. From a remote phone yo

  58. Programmable by Remote Phone. From a remote phone you can record a message, tell it what block of numbers to call and set the time sessions to make those calls. Or better yet, you can have our audio producer call the system, professionally record the message and make all the other settings, right over the phone. You do the selling--we operate the machine. What a team!
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  59. Hello, Business, Answering Machine—ABC feature. If you enable this feature it stores 3 separate, distinct messages in memory. When it makes a call and a homeowner answers the phone who says "hello" it automatically delivers the A message tailored for a homeowner. If it reaches a business it automatically delivers the B message which is tailored for a business. If it reaches an answering machine it delivers the C message specially worded for an answering machine.
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  60. ABX Feature. Using this feature the system holds the A (for "hello") and B (for business) messages in memory. When it reaches an answering machine during its day’s dialing it stores that number for Re dialing. in the evening, when most homeowners are home and have shut off their answering machine. Then it delivers the A message.
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  61. Silent Mode. If you want to "stand by" the system and immediately "close" the sale if it has located an interested party, then set it on "Silent Mode." This way it will run completely silently until the machine has signaled you that the called party has indicated an interest in talking to someone about the offer. The called party indicates their interest by pressing 0 on their touchtone phone. Music plays to keep the called party on the line and also over Communicator I's speaker to alert anyone "standing by" to grab the line and close the sale.
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  62. Permission Mode. It makes a call. Someone says "hello." The system says, "This is the operator, one moment please." Then the line is silent for a bit. A little bit later it says, "Please keep holding." Then "This is the operator, please keep holding." Then, "Please hold the line while I connect you." By this time a human attendant should have had time to grab the line and ask permission to play a recorded message. The attendant might say, "Hello, I have an important message from Congressman Filibuster, may I play this message for you?" Or "Hello, may I play a message for you on saving money on your company's printing needs? This message, with a very special offer, is from the President of Galley Printing." If the called party gives the okay, the operator activates the recorded message. As soon as the original "hello" was recognized by Communicator I a beeper would go off alerting the human attendant to the call. This way one operator can man from 2 to 4 lines, or a secretary could be doing many other things and still "run" the machine. If, after hearing the recorded message, the called party is interested in the offer or wants more information, they simply stay on the line. Music plays to the called party, and over Communicator I's speaker, which alerts the attendant to get on the line and "close" them. Once the human attendant is finished, the system immediately dials the next number. Almost twice as many calls can be made by the use of this innovative feature than by humans who dial and make telephone solicitation calls. You'll possibly get more leads and those leads will be more qualified than if you did straight random dialing AND no dialer laws can restrict you if you use this dialing method.
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  63. Branching. Communicator I can make an outgoing call, make an opening statement and then allow the called party to choose which message they want to hear. "Press 1 on your touchtone phone for a message about life insurance. Press 2 for a message about car insurance. Press 3 for a message about home insurance. Press 4 for a message about health insurance." If the called party listens to one of these messages, he can then choose from another menu for additional information. "Press 1 for an explanation of the different life insurance plans available." Then another menu is given for greater detail yet. Finally the name of the interested party is recorded.
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  64. RS232 Port. You can download or upload phone numbers from or to a host computer. But what's even simpler is to download them from a floppy diskette.
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  65. Baud Rates. The system has baud rates from 110 baud to 2 mg baud to work with any host computer in downloading or uploading information.
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  66. Reads text. It’s able to pick out phone numbers from lines of text which are being downloaded from a host computer.
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  67. Sorts numbers. Can sort phone numbers in numerical order for printing out or storage and not in the random way they were entered.
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  68. Statistics to printer. At the end of a dialing session it can upload the statistics to a host computer which can print out those statistics for a permanent record. This includes information on what phone numbers received the message, numbers busy, no answers, disconnected numbers, etc.
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Advantages of the Communicator I stand alone system
Vs.
An Intel Dialogic based system



1. NO OTHER telemarketing system has a HANG-UP/RESULTS feature to determine where your message loses its effectiveness. On command our system tells you how many people hung up while the outgoing message is being played for every second, up to 60 seconds.
So if you see that 200 people hung up on it at the 11th second, it’s high time to change your message, to keep them listening longer. Or if it’s obvious that too many people are hanging up at 22 seconds, then again, you should change the message to keep their interest level up and to make the commitment to leave their name and phone number.
THIS FEATURE IS THE ONLY WAY TO DETERMINE WHERE YOU’RE LOSING THEM.
This is the ONLY way to gauge the effectiveness of your message whereby you will know FOR SURE at what point you need to change your message to get the called party to listen longer and leave their name as a prospective buyer. NO OTHER SYSTEM HAS THIS FEATURE. You can stumble along with their system, testing message after message, but if you don’t have the data to know FOR SURE when your message is losing its effectiveness you’re simply wasting your efforts. Do you want to spend MONTHS gauging the effectiveness of your message or do you want to spend just one day? Yes you’ll know that your message isn’t effective after just one day with their system, if you don’t get much in leads. But where are you losing them? Do you need to just change a few words of your script or come up with a totally new script, which will involve a lot of time and money? Our dialer ALONE offers you this HANGUP/RESULTS feature to ensure your immediate and continued success.

2. Hang-up Detection, this feature is possible ONLY if the auto dialer you’re using has a hang-up detect THAT WORKS. Some dialer salesmen will tell you anything to make a sale. We’ve even heard them claim that their card dialer WILL hang up when the called party hangs up. Ask them to demonstrate that to you. Tell them to have their machine call you. Hang up at some point and then pick up your handset again to see if the machine is still on the line.
Don’t be surprised if the message is still being delivered. A card dialer will only hang up when the called party hangs up if you’re calling through old, analog lines. Those old lines send a voltage drop to the phone company and then back to the calling party, if the called party hangs up. But newer digital and fiber optic lines DON’T send a signal back to the calling party. They only send the signal back to the phone company, for billing purposes. So unless your card dialer has some sophisticated hang-up detect hardware and software,
IT WILL NEVER HANG UP when the called party hangs up.
It ignores the hang-up and keeps on delivering its message to an empty line. 95% or more of called people hang up at some point during the message. Most hang up right after they realize it’s a sales call. So if a 4 line system spends most of its time talking to an empty line, HOW PRODUCTIVE WILL IT BE?

3. Because of our hang-up feature you’ll find that our 2-line dialer will make just as many phone calls, per 12 hour day, as a 4-line card dialer. No time is wasted delivering a 1 minute message, talking to an empty line.
Our system is much more productive because of this feature. Most of our customer report that our 2-line system makes 4,000 calls per day, which is about what their 4-liner makes.

Can you really afford to buy a card dialer?

Phone lines cost you approximately $25.00 per month. You need to use 4 phone lines in order to reach the productivity of our 2-line system. That means you’re paying $50.00, per month, MORE just in phone line costs.

That’s $600.00 in one year, $3,000.00 more in 5 years.

So again, the big question,


Can you really afford a card dialer?

4. No one else has our ABC feature where the A message is delivered to those saying “hello”, the B message to longer responses, like businesses and the C message to answering machines.

5. No one else has our ABX feature where the A and B messages are delivered as in #6, but when it reaches an answering machine it saves those numbers and redials them in the evening, when most people are home and then delivers the A message.

6. Card dialers don’t do pre-dialing. In pre-dialing our system starts making calls before and after the normal dialing session, like from 8:00am to 9:00am and 9:00pm to 10:00pm. It finds out which numbers are in service and which are “bad” numbers, such as modems, faxes and numbers not in service.

It never rings more than once. Often half or more of the phone numbers in a prefix are not in service, which means that your system could be dialing all day and not reaching many people. Pre-dialing finds out which numbers are “good” and then dials only those during its normal dialing session. Your system could be 50% more productive using this feature.

7. No one else has the safeguards to shield you from dialer restriction laws, like caller i.d. blocking, 500,000 number do-not-call list and two types of hang-up detect.

8. No one else has the capability to analyze dialer problems and fix them quickly. Software changes are usually made overnight.

9. Our company has manufactured dialers since 1980.
Other companies are practically start-ups and have no real knowledge and experience to assist you effectively in this industry.

10. This is our third generation dialer. Our previous models were the Mark III and the Mark V. We have always been the leader of the industry. Years ago there used to be 20 dialer manufacturers. Where are they now?
 


Why should you NOT buy a card dialer (computer based dialer)?

1. It seems that there is currently a flood of card or computer based dialers on the market. Anyone who has any training or knowledge in computer programming suddenly sees a gold mine in front of him. He can take a $200.00 Dialogic board, add a $600.00 computer and some software and presto, he’s got himself a dialer to sell for 10 times his money. Prospects are usually “snowed” by extravagant marketing material that makes the opportunity look fabulous and wonderful. They go on in page after page of their printed matter making extremely extravagant claims, when reality is not as lavish. A company out of Sheridan, Indiana sold 15,000 computer/business opportunity packages. After the FTC investigated them it was revealed that not a single one of their customers had made enough money to even pay for their systems.

So we suggest, you investigate thoroughly, then decide. And don’t necessarily buy the lowest priced system, because as you’ve already found out from experience, you get what you pay for!!

2. So why would it not be a good business decision to purchase a computer-based dialer? There are lots of reasons. We’ve been in the dialer business for over 27 years and would have made a card dialer many years ago if it was indeed beneficial to our customers.

Those of you that already have a computer know about some of the problems that are inherent with a computer. A computer FREEZES or locks up every once in a while. The only way to “unfreeze” it is to shut it off and reboot. When that happens you know that you lost all the entries and programming you were working on. If a card dialer locks up YOU LOSE ALL THE PROGRAMMING, too. You’ll never know where it left off in its day’s dialing. Who got your message and who didn’t? At what number do you have it start again? You’ll either miss a bunch of potential prospects or else seriously irritate people by calling them again with the same message. What about the other projects you were working on? They’ll be lost, too!! This doesn’t happen with our Communicator I. It does only one thing. It makes calls to get you leads and make you money—therefore, IT NEVER FREEZES.

Because computers crash or “freeze” when they’re multi-tasking, we decided not to make a card dialer. We simply don’t want to sell a product which may offer some benefits but also brings with it the potential for added problems and stress to our customers. Good computers cost less than $600.00. We suggest that you buy one, but don’t overload it with a number of tasks. When you’re using your word processor and searching the web at the same time, there’s a good potential for it to crash. Fewer problems will surface if it has less to concentrate on. But if you add a dialer program to this mix, simply be prepared for disaster, because it WILL crash and will have to be shut down and all the work you had in progress WILL BE LOST.

3. But they argue, you can get a message delivery dialer AND a computer on which you can multi-task, that is, do other things, like word processing, accounting, etc., WHILE the dialer portion is working to get you leads, “and this computer is designed to never crash.” If you like begging for trouble, then go ahead and get one of those systems. But don’t forget, if that system freezes at some point you not only lose all the work you did during that session but also all your dialing information!!! Besides that, if you’d purchase a $600.00 computer locally you’d get local support. How much support will you get from a card dialer re-seller when your system crashes? Was it his software or some of the other software you’re also running?

4. But there’s still a bigger drawback. Card dialers DON’T hang up when the called party hangs up. So they end up spending most of their time delivering the message to an empty line because most people hang up, once they realize it’s a sales call. We have manufacturers of card dialers who also sell our system simply because of our unique hang-up feature. Our system is also very easy to use and extremely portable and has other unique features. You may not know this, but Congress passed a law in 1991 stating that a dialer has to hang up within 5 seconds of the called party hanging up. NONE OF THE card dialers that we know about are compliant with this law. You like begging for trouble? Then get a card dialer!

5. So how do these card dialer manufacturers convince you to buy their system? They lie to you to make the sale or sell you on price and when you put their machine on line you’ll soon notice that you can’t confirm if the machine hangs up like it’s supposed to because they WON’T LET YOU MONITOR the outgoing call. You can’t hear what’s going on when the machine is making its calls. Card dialer distributors ARE VERY SLY. To avoid getting caught in the big lie that their machine will most certainly hang up when the called party hangs up, their machine is designed so YOU CAN NOT MONITOR THE CALL, you can’t hear what’s going on while it’s dialing, delivering its message and recording responses. You can see on the screen that it’s calling, but you never know who or what answers, how they’re responding or when they hang up. VERY CLEVER, right?

It’s YOU the consumer who’s the loser in this, because what you’re doing is simply taking steps to irritate the public. Most people don’t mind if they pick up the phone and there’s a machine pitching them. They can hang up quickly enough. But if they want to use the phone 30 seconds later and the machine is still on the line they’ll get irate, real fast. If they need to use the phone and your card dialer is tying up their line, you’ve suddenly got an enemy to deal with. It’s like shooting yourself in the foot. You want your machine to reach friendly people who don’t object to getting calls from dialers. But if your machine MAKES THEM ANGRY, how will your call be received the next time you call them? The worst part is that if they have an emergency and keep slamming the phone down to get rid of the machine, then yell at it when the machine beeps, hoping for a lead, the system will never hang up. If you have a 1 minute script, with 4 questions, it may take 3 minutes for the call to conclude. And YOUR machine caused the emergency situation to rise to fever pitch. Next thing they’re on the phone to the attorney general and their State legislator to pass stringent anti-dialer laws. Is this what you want to happen? Or do you want to see your name smeared in the papers?

Then DON’T use a dialer that doesn’t have a good hang-up detect!!!

6. One card dialer distributor is touting the fact that you can load files of over a million phone numbers into the machine. You can buy or they can provide you with lists of numbers of everyone who has a telephone. They say their machine can make a call and say, “. . . if you’d like to hear this message, press 1 . . . if you DON’T want us to call you again with a recorded message, press 2 . . .” Their machine then automatically puts the phone number of those that pressed 2 in a “do not call” list, so they won’t be called again. Pretty slick, right? But there are SEVERAL PROBLEMS with this “incredible” feature. ATT will tell you that 35% of the phone numbers in today’s telephone book will be different next year. Another fact: 20% of the population moves every year. So if you’re dialing from a NUMBER LIST you will reach a goodly amount of numbers that are no longer in service. As you know, it will take you many months to dial a million numbers and by that time, many of those numbers from that list will no longer be in service.

By next year when you may want to use that number list again 20% and possibly up to 35% of those numbers will no longer be good, working numbers. Why then buy a number list in the first place? We recommend that you use prefix dialing, where our machine covers EVERY number that’s in service at the time you’re making the call.

7. But there are more potential problems with using the “press 2” feature. Next year when you want to call those same numbers again it will have a big list of “don’t call numbers” in memory. Very likely a good percentage of those “don’t call numbers” will now be assigned to someone else. So, first of all, your existing list will have a lot of numbers that are now “not in service” and second, the “don’t call me again” numbers will now be assigned to new homeowners.
It’s like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. “Why are you doing that?” “Because it feels good when I stop.” This “press 2” feature will only hurt you and rob you of the chance to reach everyone in your community with your offer. Their glorified machine with its million+ number capacity is overkill, at best and it will only hurt you. Is this what you really want?

8. Have those card dialer dealers told you that you’ll be spending an HOUR, per day, to take your leads off, whereas it only takes MINUTES, per day, to take your leads off our machine? This is because our hang-up and answer detect is far superior to theirs. We’ve been perfecting ours for almost 20 years. They are STARTUPS who don’t even have a hang-up detect.

Try this. Call a friend and have them hang up. Then stay on the line. In 10 seconds or less you’ll hear a loud, obnoxious, off-hook signal. Whenever a card dialer calls and the called party hangs up at some point during the message it isn’t long before the phone company automatically plays that irritating “off hook” signal. It’s intended to alert you in case you didn’t put the handset into the cradle properly. But if your machine made the call and didn’t sense the hang-up it will continue to talk to an empty line and pretty soon it’s talking to the “off-hook” signal. And when it’s time to record the response, the lead, since the live person has already left the line, it records the “off-hook” signal for your listening pleasure. Imagine LISTENING to an hour of “off-hook” signal EVERY DAY, while you’re trying to take your leads off. It’s worse than Chinese water torture. But they didn’t tell you that, did they?

9. They’ll also tell you that their system is very user friendly and easy to use. Can they send you their system, have you plug it in and away she goes dialing? OF COURSE NOT!!! What kind of learning curve will there be for you, especially for those of you not owning a degree in computer science? Would you rather spend your time selling, to make money, or reading manuals to figure out what’s going on with your machine?

10. Card dialers mostly use Intel Dialogic boards. We can update our software overnight and s end you updates by email. You can also pull up our web site and access the latest software at your convenience.

The software updates are free of charge. Do they do this? And how many weeks or months do they take to update their software?

11. And NO, THERE IS NO LAW REQUIRING YOU TO USE A NUMBER LIST TO DIAL FROM. That’s another lie we’ve heard disseminated.

12. Most card dialers don’t let you program them via another phone.

13. Most card dialers don’t let you get your leads from another phone. If you have your machine working at the office it might at times be convenient to call it from home to get your leads. If your appointment was a no-show just call our system via cell phone to get more leads.

14. You’ll find that your machine will even get more leads in smaller towns, because they’re not inundated with human phone solicitors, like big cities are. To save long distance charges put the machine into a friend’s house. Then call it once or more, per day, to get your leads.

Can you do this with a card dialer?

What about portability, moving the machine from place to place? What if you wanted to let your church use your machine for a while? What kind of a headache would you have then, having to take apart and then set up your computer system at another location? And moving it back again? Ouch!!

15. We have a built-in printer. It automatically prints out the phone numbers of the leads and other statistics, at the end of the day, including the HANG-UP/RESULTS.

This eliminates another potential source of problems for a computer system, locking up while it’s multi-tasking.

16. Our system is small and easily transportable. It is very inexpensive to ship if it ever needs to come in for service. If your Dialogic board ever needs service are you qualified to take it out and re-install it, properly? Or will you have to ship the whole computer in for service?

17. It’s very easy to troubleshoot our system. If you’re doing other things with your computer based card dialer and it locks up and freezes, who can figure out what caused the problem? Was it your dialing software or was it a glitch in some of your other programming? Our system is extremely reliable—you set it and forget it. If problems occur, we can fix them very quickly. Most software or hardware problems are fixed within 24 hours.

We don’t take hardware that was designed for voice mail and then add a dialing capability. Ours is a system that was designed from the ground up to quickly and effectively make phone calls to get you leads, to make you money and to shield you from potential problems in the telemarketing field.

18. We put your message into the machine, plus the phone numbers and dialing times. When your machine arrives, you take it out of the box, plug it in and within 5 seconds it’s already making calls to get you leads. It can already be working to get you more customers while you’re reading the manual to find out why it’s doing what it’s doing.

You don’t need to be a computer expert to assemble all the parts correctly. You don’t need hours to “get your system going.” Ours is on-line and functioning in seconds.

19. When your leads are played back to you the date and time the lead was recorded is also revealed. This feature may save you hours of time. You can call them at the time they left the lead, which means they’ll be home during that time period, too.

20. Everything about our machine was designed for maximum efficiency and productivity. If you can run an answering machine, you can run our system. In fact, if you have a disability, we can even program the machine for you, right over the phone. Just tell us what message you want delivered, the phone numbers you want it to call and the start and stop times. We can program everything right from our office.

21. Our professionally recorded messages are the best in the industry. We’ve got over 10,000 messages in our library and almost 20 years of experience in knowing which fine-tuned messages pull most effectively. The combination of the best system in the industry and the best messages ensure your success.

22. When you call us, we answer the phone, ready to assist you with your dialing needs. We don’t hide behind answering machines. If you can’t talk to them directly now, imagine what it will be like AFTER the sale. If you already have a computer you know that when you call for assistance you may be on hold for an hour before a technician finally answers your call. That won’t happen with us. When you call, a live person answers, who can help you solve your dialing problems.

23. We’ve been in the dialer business for over 27 years. We have the knowledge, the strength and expertise to guide you to success in your telemarketing efforts.
 

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