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Hurricane Katia Text Message Alerts
Posted By: Tim S. on August 30th, 2011

hurricane katia

Tropical Storm Katia will develop into a hurricane later this week as it slowly heads toward the United States.

While Tropical Storm Katia poses no potential threat at the moment, DialMyCalls.com recommends you have a mass notification system in place, should it make landfall in the United States. The soon-to-be Hurricane Katia could wreak havoc on certain areas of the U.S. and our unlimited monthly text message plan can help you be prepared. How do our hurricane text message alerts work?

One service that DialMyCalls offers is unlimited text message alerts each month. Being that Hurricane Katia poses a future threat, you could set up your own emergency notification system. Small municipalities, communities and even entire states could benefit from our text message notifications. All you would have to do is sign up for an account, import a list of all of the contacts you want to send the hurricane text message alerts out to and voila! With the click of a button, thousands of people can receive your message in a matter of minutes.

Will the roads be closed because Hurricane Katia caused flooding? Is your community under a mandatory evacuation? Are people that you know missing and you want to spread the word that you are looking for them? DialMyCalls allows you to create your own custom text message and send it out to everyone in your contact list. Best of all, our monthly plan allows you to send an unlimited amount of text message alerts to your entire list of phone numbers!

Even though Hurricane Katia is still a good distance out, don't be caught off guard should the storm pose a threat to the United States. Sign up for DialMyCalls and set up your own emergency notification system today!

Posted In Category: Emergency Notification



Non-Profit Text Message Fundraiser Alerts
Posted By: Tim S. on August 29th, 2011

text message fundraising

DialMyCalls' unlimited monthly text messages can be of extreme benefit to nonprofit organizations to start up a SMS fundraising campaign to help them raise money.

Nonprofits host charity events and fundraisers in an attempt to raise money for their groups cause. Here at DialMyCalls.com we believe that our mass notification system would be perfect for non-profits as they could use our unlimited monthly text messages to reach a much broader audience, instantly.

A non-profit organization can set up personalized text message fundraiser alerts to help them achieve their goal. The group would simply sign up for DialMyCalls, choose an unlimited monthly plan (depending on how many people they would be contacting every month) and instantly begin raising money. Let's say a charity dinner was coming up next week, the nonprofit could send out a text message to thousands of possible donors on their contact list that says: Help Support Our Group, Reply With “YES” To Attend Our Charity Dinner Monday At 8PM.”

Nonprofits can also use DialMyCalls to set up their own personal text message fundraising campaign. Groups can set up their own custom keyword and register a unique SMS shortcode. Once that is in place, they can continue to expand their list of donors by spreading the word, telling people to “Text

'FUNDRAISER' to 80123 if you are interested in info regarding our charity events/fundraisers.” Our system will then build a contact list of everyone that texted the keyword into the shortcode. The non-profit group now has more potential donors that they can alert when an upcoming fundraiser is about to begin.

If you are a non-profit organization out there, DialMyCalls is a great service to help with your fundraising efforts. Sign up today and you will get our 20% discount that we offer to all nonprofits!

Posted In Category: Event Reminders



Hurricane Irene Text Message Alerts
Posted By: Tim S. on August 23rd, 2011
hurricane ireneHurricane Irene is steadily growing in size as it barrels directly towards the east coast of the United States. 

DialMyCalls offers an extremely efficient and reliable mass notification system and that can be used during Hurricane Irene. With our unlimited monthly text message plan, citizens along the east coast can import a specified amount of phone number contacts [50 contacts = $18.99/month] and send them all an endless amount of text messages. This is great for small communities and municipalities to use for their emergency alert system. With the click of a button, a text message [or voice message] can be sent out to thousands of people within seconds. 

With Hurricane Irene lurking right off the coast, a text message alert system is a great device to have in place. Did a member of the community lose their home in the storm? Are you trying to gather everyone to help them out by donating food, clothing and shelter? DialMyCalls.com and our unlimited monthly text message plan is a great way to get that important message out. 

Don't be caught off guard when Hurricane Irene makes landfall later this week. Sign up for DialMyCalls and set up your own text message alert system today!
Posted In Category: Emergency Notification



Radio Station Playlists, Contest Alerts, Promotional Text Message Ads
Posted By: Tim S. on August 19th, 2011

radio stationsDialMyCalls offers a great solution for radio stations across the country with our unlimited monthly text message plans.


Using a mass notification system such as DialMyCalls.com can be extremely beneficial to radio stations looking to increase their listener base. Local stations can set up an account with our service and begin to use the system instantly; there are no setup fees. Whether it be for contest alerts, song playlists or promotional advertising, our text message service is perfect for any radio station. How exactly does it work? 

A radio station would simply sign up for DialMyCalls and then choose a payment option. Our monthly plans include unlimited text message to X amount of contacts which would probably be the best solution for a large radio networks. Now it's time to get creative and the possibilities of uses are endless. Let's take a look at a couple of different ways that radio stations can use our mass notification system. 

Do you want to give your listeners the ability to receive a text message with the last 10 songs played? You can create a custom SMS keyword such as “LAST10” and then create a personalized text message that will be sent out anytime a listener texts the keyword to your personal shortcode (80123). 

Contest alerts are another great service that DialMyCalls can offer via text message. Radio stations can tell their listeners to text “CONTESTS” to 78837 which will then add them to their phone number contact list. From that point, the radio stations can periodically send out text messages to every listener (that texted “CONTESTS” to 80123), alerting them of new contests that are being held.

Once the radio stations have built up a large contact list of all of their listeners, they may start selling advertising text messages to businesses. Basically how this would work is a company would pay the radio station to send out a personalized text message to all of their listeners. For example, the text message ad would read “Stop by Rick's Roadhouse for Happy Hour Monday Night – WRUE108” (WRUE108 would be the radio station).

Take advantage of radio station text messaging today by signing up for DialMyCalls and start reaching out to a broader audience!

Posted In Category: Mass Notification System



College Announcements, Fraternity and Sorority Party Invitations
Posted By: Tim S. on August 15th, 2011
college announcementsBack to school 2011 is in full swing and Colleges around the country are gearing up for the fall semester. 

DialMyCalls is participating in the back to school craze by offering our mass notification service for both college announcements and fraternity / sorority party invitations. How exactly can college campuses take advantage of our voice / text message system? 

Professors can use our automated calling to alert students of class cancellations or assignments that are due. Universities can send out a voice message to their alumni, reminding them of upcoming fundraisers or charity events at the college that they graduated from. DialMyCalls is an extremely reliable system that Colleges can depend upon to deliver their important messages. 

On top of the professors and universities benefiting from DialMyCalls, College fraternities and sororities can also use our mass notification system. Planning a huge bash to kick off the 2011 Fall Semester? With DialMyCalls you can send out thousands of party invitations via voice message or text message. Make sure people show up to your college kickoff party by using our automated calling system today!
Posted In Category: Schools



DialMyCalls How To: Adding Contacts, Import Your Phone Number List
Posted By: Tim S. on August 12th, 2011

DialMyCalls offers a few different methods of adding in your phone number contacts into our voice message / text message notification system.

Are you all signed up for DialMyCalls and are now looking for a way to add your contacts? Our mass notification system offers quite a few different methods to get your phone number list ready to receive voice / text messages. Let's take a quick look at the different options available so that you can start sending out calls today!

The first option available is to add in your contacts manually. Only have one or two people that you will be calling? This is the option for you!

Add Contacts Manually:

dmc add contact

The next option available is our Quick Add which allows you to enter phone numbers only. This is for those of you that will not be adding additional information to your contacts such as first name, last name and email address.

Quick Add Contacts:

dmc quick add

Last but not least is the ability to import an excel spreadsheet or phone number database directly into the DialMyCalls system. Are you a decent sized organizations with thousands of contacts? Using this method is the easiest option for you. After all, you don’t want to enter 1,000 contacts individually, do you? (keep in mind that the files you import with this option must be .xls or .csv)

Import Your Contacts:

dmc import contact list

Example Excel File (.xls or .csv format)

dmc excel sample

Import Numbers After File Upload:

dmc import

We pride ourselves in offering the easiest and most efficient method of sending out mass voice messages and text messages. If you have any suggestions for importing contacts into our automated calling system please feel free to contact us today!


Posted In Category: Business Continuity

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