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Business profile: Slydial

Posted by Michael under Business Growth

So, what use would you make of a free voice messaging service that connects you directly to someone’s mobile voicemail? 

It’s an interesting question – there are good reasons for using a system like Slydial, and less good ones, and Slydial are open enough to list some of the ‘shadier’ uses in their Frequently Asked Questions, but if you have a service-centred business, for example, Slydial has a real benefit for you.

Say you want to let a series of customers know their order has shipped, but you don’t want to get into long conversations with all of them? Using Slydial means they get a totally personalised message but you control the length of the call and the information conveyed – it’s bespoke but you’re the only one who gets to do the speaking!

How it works

In most cases the person you’re slydialing just receives a new voicemail alert around a minute you leave your message, although with some mobile phones, the recipient’s phone gives a half ring before going to voicemail. Several reviewers have tried to catch it out, but nobody yet has managed to grab their phone before slydial slips over to messaging.

In the USA you can just dial 267-SLY-DIAL (267-759-3425) to use this service completely free, but for the advanced features such as the apps for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile smartphones (and to avoid the advertising that precedes each usage you make of the service) you have to pay a small monthly fee.

What is it good for?

Slydial has a list: you might be short of time, wishing to avoid a painful, embarrassing or tough conversation, playing the field, wanting to pass on some complex information without having to get through the necessity of the person on the other end interrupting or trying to take notes as you speak and you don’t want to have to text it all, you might want to speak without interruption or to convey a message to somebody who is on holiday or in a meeting but who would benefit from having an update on a situation that’s too complicated for a text.

The Slydial downside

It’s simple – the person you’re calling has to have a U.S. mobile phone number that isn’t a pay-as-you-go, the callee also has to have voicemail on their phone and it doesn’t work with google voice, youmail or other similar third party systems. So for UK users, as of now, there’s no way to incorporate the Slydial experience into your domestic life.

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