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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!

(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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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!

(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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