~A MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDER~

Greetings and welcome to our website. I am a big believer in voice broadcasting and went into this business four years ago to show my sons that I could pick an industry (telemarketing) with the very worst reputation and within 5 years turn the entire industry around. My goal is to give the consumer real value so they will clamor to be on the HomeyTel call list and provide legitimate businesses and political movements with a practical alternative source to get their message out. Voice broadcasting is like a knife. Properly used, it is a wonderful and extremely effective tool. But when it is abused, it is irritating, and can even cause harm.

We are not a reseller and have an in-house capacity to deliver nearly one million calls per day. We also have flex lines available that can deliver over 10 million calls in a day if needed.

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BUDGET YOUR CAMPAIGN: We offer the very lowest rates for voice broadcasting. Our rates are based on numbers called, not usage minutes, so that you can exactly budget your campaign. We have found that a message of 30 seconds is just as effective as a 60 second message, if the message is clear and timely. Short messages simply deliver more bang for the buck. While we offer longer messages, our low rate is based on a more cost effective 30-second message.

The pitfall of per-minute usage, as opposed to our per-call rate, is that it is nearly impossible to budget your campaign using per-minute usage. And if you set a budget it is impossible to know how many calls will be delivered within your budget! A 30-second live message typically requires about 50 seconds to deliver between connect time and disconnect time. The same 30-second message delivered to an answering machine typically requires 90 seconds to deliver. This is because your message is not played until the answering machine or voice mail has ended its message. Most voice broadcasters charge on a per-minute usage ranging from .02  to .12 cents per usage minute, which means the real cost to deliver a 30-second answering machine messages is often .03 to .24 or more! Again, a 30 second message typically requires about 50 seconds between connect and disconnect. And when delivering to answering machine or voice mail you are paying  minute usage for the privilege of hearing voice mail. Further, who counts the minutes? And how are the minutes counted? The provider always counts the minutes and often a 6 second call is counted for 30 seconds. Again, it is impossible to know your full cost in advance with per minute usage. Our customers who maintain clean lists with hit rates of 70%-90% find that our per call rates are from 1/3 to 1/2 less than our lowest priced competitors using per minute formulas.

HOMEYTEL VERSUS WEB BASED AND PLATFORM COMPETITORS: There are currently several seamless web based services available on-line. While seemingly state of the art, these services require training and a support desk to help you through programming and other glitches. HomeyTel provides this free with its professionally trained staff. Further these on line services do not and cannot maximize your results.  Settings are in a default mode regardless of your campaign. To maximize results a live only campaign must use different parameters to maximize results since the goal is to avoid answering machines.  By the same token a live and answering machine campaign is targeting answering machines and the default settings must be changed to maximize the results.  The web based competition simply does not have the ability to tweak default settings to maximize your results.  We do the mundane programming and supervise your campaigns to gain the maximum result. And it seems seamless! Some web-based competitors do offer the advantage of on-line real time monitoring of your campaign,  but the real time monitoring is done through  interfacing software and does not reflect the real time tolling by the phone service provider. Again, a per minute rate is counted by the voice broadcasting provider and not the company tolling the calls. 

HARD LINES VERSUS VOIP AND SIP: Many web based and other competitors provide calls through VOIP or SIP rather than hard phone lines, resulting in inconsistent voice quality and inconsistent delivery.  When VOIP or SIP systems supercede capacity it results in undelivered calls.  When VOIP or SIP systems exceed bandwidth the result is a poor quality call.  VOIP and SIP also do not  consistently read hangups and disconnects from the various phone providers resulting in a  higher undetectable minute usage. HomeyTel delivers your message through hard PRI phone lines assuring highest quality and consistent delivery of your message. 

WE ARE NOT A RESELLER! Over 95% of the competition do not own their own lines, they open a website during the election season and are gone immediately after the elections.  Beware of any website based company without a physical address. Beware of any website company without published rates. And be leery of any website that promises to beat any quote! If they can beat any quote then why not publish it?  The first question to a voice broadcaster should be do you own your own lines?  If they do not own their own lines they are a middleman with higher rates.  HomeyTel owns its own lines in two separate high security locations. We are not the biggest but we are the best! And we can handle any size job.

NO BLOCKED TIERS:  Due to the nuances of government regulation wholesale telephone rates vary from under .003 per minute to over .14 cents per minute. Yes, 14 cents per minute at wholesale! The rates are determined by a complicated system of carrier type and tiers within each carrier type.  Many, in fact most, or our competitors selectively block high priced tiers. Unless, the provider advertises no blocked tiers, you can be assured that high tolled tiers are blocked.  The calls are simply reported as busy, no answer, or disconnected when in fact these high priced tiers are blocked and never called..  Typically about 5%-20% of the calling numbers in any given area code are blocked. While you do not pay for these blocked calls with a minute usage priced system, you will never reach constituents on these high priced tiers. As a candidate this means your are not reaching your entire constituency. Moreover, this practice  is very difficult to detect even when you are trained in the myriad of phone rates. HomeyTel blocks no carrier tiers.  We absorb the costs in these high tiers even though we lose money on each call.   As a result we occasionally actually lose money on individual campaigns.  But with HomeyTel every political campaign is assured of the ability to reach every available number in every given calling area with no blocked tiers and a low fixed rate you know going in the campaign with no surprises.

EASY TO READ REPORTS: Upon completion of each campaign you will receive and easy to read reports with the phone number, the date called, the time of the call, the call result, the number of attempts, and the length of call. The call result includes answered, hang-ups, message delivered to answering machine, disconnects, busy, and no answer.