TM101Radio Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 How many station owners have a dedicated phone number for their Radio Station?? If you don't have one I have one question for you.... WHY NOT??? Even if you don't have live shows on your station you can still benefit from a phone number for your station. I use my Phone number to allow the listeners to do Shoutouts, Rants and give me feedback on the station and I don't have any live shows on the station YET.. When someone calls and leaves a voicemail shoutout or request I edit it in Audacity and play it on the station.. It shows that even though I have no live shows you can still interact with the station and myself...I also get text requests and use the number in my email signatures I was actually very pleasantly surprised at how many people actually use the number..I have people that tell me how much they love the station and of course I put those on the station..Also since my station is independent music only, alot of the ARTISTS call in and leave a voicemail DROPS for the station...and they come out very good without any production or beds added to them.. Here is the best part... the number is free and packed with so many features its INSANE not to set up your own..just go to the link and claim your own free number.. its a google product so you know it has a ton of features like the ability to download the audio message, call forwarding and email transcripts of your voicemails.. http://www.google.com/voice (EDIT: it was brought to my attention that this will not work in other countries outside of the USA but I think I found a solution just read my 3rd post of this thread) MY Station NUMBER IS (909)91-TM101 (SEE what I DID THERE..) Great branding for my station..so if you want to call TM101 Radio and leave a voicemail..be my guest and I will put it in on my station..lol Love to hear your guys thoughts on this.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesdean Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 So only good for the USA then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM101Radio Posted May 14, 2011 Author Share Posted May 14, 2011 I think google voice works in Canada and at one point I heard it works in the UK as well.. (don't quote me on this but try a search for it) but as far as other countries I don't think this will work.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reslez Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Not in Cannada yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM101Radio Posted May 15, 2011 Author Share Posted May 15, 2011 Not in Cannada yet Really..Well i was unaware of this.. Well another alternative thats free is skype.. jUst set up a skype account and get a free Phone number from the link below... http://www.ring2skype.com/ and the number will ring to you your skype account..only thing is you won't get voicemail and sms messages (you have to pay for this thru skype but its not that expensive) BUT it is international and you can pick a free number from a variety of countries.. LMK what you think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Reslez Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Hey Thank you. I have been on Skype corp. to get Cannadian numbers for years. I pay into the skype service. I followed your link with little confidence, but there, lo and behold, they now have a Cannadian option. Yay. Thank you for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM101Radio Posted May 17, 2011 Author Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hey Thank you. I have been on Skype corp. to get Cannadian numbers for years. I pay into the skype service. I followed your link with little confidence, but there, lo and behold, they now have a Cannadian option. Yay. Thank you for this. SO that ring2skype link worked for you?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concrete Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 good info thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowjamz Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Great info thanks .. used in it for a US number and I'm in Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr08 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Really..Well i was unaware of this.. Well another alternative thats free is skype.. jUst set up a skype account and get a free Phone number from the link below... http://www.ring2skype.com/ and the number will ring to you your skype account..only thing is you won't get voicemail and sms messages (you have to pay for this thru skype but its not that expensive) BUT it is international and you can pick a free number from a variety of countries.. LMK what you think For the voicemail and SMS stuff (well, the voicemail part. SMS likely won't work) you could set up a PBX/Asterisk system with a Skype trunk. Even make your station phone line professional sounding. There's actually quite a number of free and inexpensive options station owners can set up for phone operation. Unfortunately nothing off the top of my head to specifically mention. Mostly google. The PBX/Asterisk option is nice since you can program it for different uses and even, depending on what automation software you use, automated interaction between callers and the station (though I certainly wouldn't do something like auto-airing voicemail messages. Too easy to wreak havoc. ;) ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM101Radio Posted June 13, 2011 Author Share Posted June 13, 2011 The PBX/Asterisk option is nice since you can program it for different uses and even, depending on what automation software you use, automated interaction between callers and the station (though I certainly wouldn't do something like auto-airing voicemail messages. Too easy to wreak havoc. ;) ) I would like more info on that!! Where can I read about that. Im intrigued about the automation between callers and the station part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr08 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 There's really no set and defined tutorials that I know of. Mostly just general ideas especially after using and reading about this stuff before.The big thing with Asterisk is it is a highly configurable and scriptable to do whatever you can imagine with your 'phone system'. Would be pretty easy to do something like asking callers to press one number to do testimonialsn record messages, the wav files in asterisk get published to a web accessible folder, and then trigger SAM's event scheduler via http access to run a pal script which will go out and grab a testimonial and air it.One thing you can do is simply google search for asterisk and read it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yidso Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Does anybody know when Google Voice will be available in the UK? Kieran Lewis Tune in to the Kieran Lewis Show Fridays 7pm - 9pm (UK time) www.lovemusicfm.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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