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07 Apr 05 - 08:46 AM (#1454314) Subject: BS: Cheap Voice Mailbox? Any suggestions From: GUEST Two friends and myself are starting up a monthly coffeehouse open mike series. We want to give out a phone number for people to call and get information, etc. but none of us really wants to have our phone numbers handed out all over the place, put up on billboards, etc. What we'd like to do is have some "central number" where we could leave a message, such as "Thank you for calling the ----- coffeehouse information line. Our next open mike session will be held...etc. etc." Of course we'd check the messages and respond as necessary. We were thinking - just buy a cheap cell phone and let that serve as our voice mail. Anybody have any better suggestions? |
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07 Apr 05 - 11:32 AM (#1454446) Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Voice Mailbox? Any suggestions From: wysiwyg I like the cellphone idea because on gig day, performers or ticket-buyers may want to contact you urgently; club leaders can take turns carrying the cell for the day. ~S~ |
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07 Apr 05 - 11:24 PM (#1455048) Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Voice Mailbox? Any suggestions From: open mike getting a land line phone would probably be much cheaper// cell phones would be over $20-$30 per month at the least and a regular phone might be had for less than half that. there are message services connected to the phone company but i do not know how much they are. or an answering machine goes for 20 or so. We have that for our folk society..a dedicated phone in one of our members' homes...it could have an unpublished address...or some cell phone companies have an extra line program that might save some $. Do you need people to sign up for a tiime slot ahead of time? some news paper ads have a voice mail phone to call to leave messages...maybe this is jus tin the personals section... perhaps you could take out an ad and use the newspapser phone number for contact! (there are ads where they issue you your own number to get messages...) how about a pager? I am not sure how they work or how much they cost...i think they will take an incoming phone number--but probably not a message. Aperhaps there is an answering service that could field your calls for you...not known if they charge a flat rate or per call.. good luck. |
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08 Apr 05 - 12:54 AM (#1455070) Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Voice Mailbox? Any suggestions From: open mike when i searched for answering service i found this one for $8.95 per month. not sure where you are...http://www.voicenation.com/ and here is the musicians answering service in london http://www.maslink.co.uk/ if you intend to hold youjr evbent in the same venue each time perhaps the venue would be willing to field calls.. or have an extension for you....i have called osme people's houses wher ethe ansent machine says if you want to leave a message for Mr. X push 1, for MS. X push 2, for little X push 3.. that might be a function of the answering machine you have. |
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08 Apr 05 - 05:22 PM (#1455612) Subject: RE: BS: Cheap Voice Mailbox? Any suggestions From: GUEST Looking into both options, thanks for the suggestions. We don't want them to call the venue, they would probably get one of the teenagers who work there and they wouldn't know anything about the concerts. We've found a cell phone (Virgin) which you can buy for $40 and there is no contract - pay as you go, $.25 a minute for the first 10 calls a day and $.10 per minute for the rest. We have no idea how many people will be calling us! |