MOJO is Out! Best, Most Affordable Dialer HARDWARE??

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The CIA-level security at my company-owned insurance/securities office has prevented me from downloading the software required by Mojo. No exceptions, so that's out. (But their tech support was OUTSTANDING as we tried to make it work.)

Next try was with VanillaSoft, largely because even with limited 'power dialer' features, it would do what I required and came with a 30-day Free Trial. No software download but for me to use a 'real' desk phone I would need a 56K modem, two phone lines and a required VOiP subscription ($$!) -- this makes VanillaSoft seem like a real longshot, again due to office security issues.

Sure, I'll look into other web-based solutions (Callfire?) but I'm wondering if a piece of dialing hardware would do the trick. I'm a one-man army, simply looking for a dialer that will allow me to download a list of names that I can cold-call one after the other during business hours. No need for two or three lines blazing, no need to leave a recorded message but some CRM lead-tracking features would be desireable and of course I want my contact to appear on my computer screen.

Is buying a piece of hardware my best answer?

I'm open to help, comments and suggestions. I need a dialer but nobody wants to make it easy for me!
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(10 minutes later.) Just talked to Callfire and based on my description of the issues, they seem to think that their service will work for me. The fact that THEY call ME and dials are made from their system makes me think they could be right. I've set up an account and will do a test run tomorrow morning.

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I have just started using Callfire but from what your describing it looks like it would be the perfect fit for you. I like it because I don't have to purchase anything and I can use it as little or as much as I want on a pay as you go system. You can get a $5 credit from them so you can try it out for free and see how you like it. They have different plans the minimum costing $2 per hour, but again by what your describing that is all you would need. It has a nice campaign builder so you can add your script and responses from the callers during the call. Later you can look at or download the results onto an excel spreadsheet. It sure beats dialing and then making notes on a call sheet. Cold calling is frustrating enough but with callfire it makes it a lot easier to go through a list and get the most out it.
 
I have just started using Callfire but from what your describing it looks like it would be the perfect fit for you. I like it because I don't have to purchase anything and I can use it as little or as much as I want on a pay as you go system. You can get a $5 credit from them so you can try it out for free and see how you like it. They have different plans the minimum costing $2 per hour, but again by what your describing that is all you would need. It has a nice campaign builder so you can add your script and responses from the callers during the call. Later you can look at or download the results onto an excel spreadsheet. It sure beats dialing and then making notes on a call sheet. Cold calling is frustrating enough but with callfire it makes it a lot easier to go through a list and get the most out it.

I agree you can't beat Callfire. What is great is you can be calling not only from your office but in a coffee shop. Just need a cellphone and laptop. MOJO I heard cost $150 a month unlimited calling but unless your calling 75 or more hours a month your not going to save any money going with MOJO and if you make less than 75 hours of calling a month you lose money.
 
Deb and Maj both make a great deal of sense. Obviously, if someone is calling more than 3.5 hours a day every workday of the month (22 days) then using Callfire becomes more spendy than other options. For most of you, THAT'S how you'll make your choice by asking "Just how much do I call?" and -- all things being equal -- you will make your decision from there.

Me.... I seem to be running out of options, but at least with Callfire remaining, perhaps it's the best solution after all. Still, if a single-line dialer gets me making, say, 80 dials an hour as opposed to my current 40 (on a good day) then I'm certain to A) be more enthused about a phone session and B) see a significant increase in production.

Of course, if blasting through a "campaign" becomes too easy, then I might want to do four or five hours a day (possibly more?) and THEN I'll have a decision to make about cost vs. productivity. But of course, if I'm writing way more deals, then a "marketing expense" exceeding $150 per month should be a problem I'd LOVE to have.

(And thanks for the hardware dialer tip.... I'll check it out.)
 
If you want to go the cheap route, then go with Dolphin Dialer (google search for it). Its a piece of software that runs on your desktop and is basically a power dialer/crm system.

Of course, your CIA level security may not allow this to work either.

Dan
 
Deb and Maj both make a great deal of sense. Obviously, if someone is calling more than 3.5 hours a day every workday of the month (22 days) then using Callfire becomes more spendy than other options. For most of you, THAT'S how you'll make your choice by asking "Just how much do I call?" and -- all things being equal -- you will make your decision from there.

Me.... I seem to be running out of options, but at least with Callfire remaining, perhaps it's the best solution after all. Still, if a single-line dialer gets me making, say, 80 dials an hour as opposed to my current 40 (on a good day) then I'm certain to A) be more enthused about a phone session and B) see a significant increase in production.

Of course, if blasting through a "campaign" becomes too easy, then I might want to do four or five hours a day (possibly more?) and THEN I'll have a decision to make about cost vs. productivity. But of course, if I'm writing way more deals, then a "marketing expense" exceeding $150 per month should be a problem I'd LOVE to have.

(And thanks for the hardware dialer tip.... I'll check it out.)

If the security issue is firewall based, or they prevent you from installing ANY software, you still might be able to use callfire, or you could find a way to patch into a voip line using a pap2t hardware adapter from linksys, IF it can get through your firewall.

Most systems require a softphone of some sort be installed on the computer, even if its just a webphone.

You could also look at getting a small computer to run a dialer in your office, the cost would be like 200$ for the computer, plus .014 cents a minute to make outbound calls in single or multi-line.
 
I'll throw my hat in the game to. Starting Monday I'll be an affiliate with SalesDialers.com and offering their dialing service for $99 plus 500 free records. Another guy who should be along shortly is Raymond with Magnalogix.
 
Its likely salesdialer won't work for this guy, if mojo was prevented from installing, simply because he won't be able to install the softphone.

You could bring a laptop into work and use that for the dialer box also, and power a softphone with it, then you have your choice of hosted dialer softwares. Computer does not have to be robust at all, a 100-150 dollar used piece of crap can run fedora 14 and linphone, which is enough to use salesdialers, the system I run, magnalogic, etc, anything based off vicidial.

You'd need something a little more expensive and windows based to run mojo.
 
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