Tweet

What is Visual Voicemail

Guest post by: Nicolas DAlleva

Article Overview: Visual voicemail is a new advancement in the field of voicemail which converts the words and sentences of a voice message into a typed form which is emailed or send via SMS or text message to the client.

What is Visual Voicemail

Telephony has moved rapidly in the twenty-first century. One of the most exciting, or even futuristic pieces of technology is visual voicemail. Visual voicemail is an ancillary voicemail feature that helps the end user can secure many improved voicemail management features. Visual voicemail integrates voicemail together with voice recognition software. The voice recognition software is able to transcribe recorded audio files into text. It is a voicemail enhancement that allows users to check voicemail visually in the form of written text. Most consumers are aware and familiar with standard audio voicemail. Standard voicemail lets the end users dial into the mailbox and check and playback voicemails. Voicemail features allow the end user to listen to their messages and utilize various phone features, allowing the user to listen to, delete, save, forward or skip over a message. Voicemail is an everyday part of life. Yet, using voicemail is an often frustrating experience with difficult instructions, prompts and nuances. Listening to voicemail can be a time consuming proposition that can result in lost messages, mistakes or worse.

Visual voicemail is an exciting new revolution in the voice messaging industry. Visual voicemail is able to reduce the headaches that go with managing a standard voicemail platform. This type of messaging allows users to view all messages in text form. The user can read or listen to their voicemails. They can choose either method based on their personal preference and their circumstances. With visual voicemail, an end user can enjoy the features of voice to text technology, or they can listen to the message in standard fashion. This is an especially helpful feature, as often times the user needs to hear a message to get the intended context.

Visual voicemail is a technology that has revolutionized voicemail. While some view visual voicemail as a gimmick, it is in fact a very valuable tool. This voice to text technology is extremely user friendly and can save the end user valuable time. The time saving option coupled with the flexibility to view messages in a text format. Visual VM marries traditional voicemail with superior options not found with regular voicemail. Virtual Voicemail provides users with several options for checking messages to make it the ideal voicemail for the busy professional.

Related Articles
  Getting Your Voicemail by Email
  20 Tips For Leaving Effective Efficient Voicemail Messages From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
  Mobile Call Forwarding
  The Origin of Voicemail
  The Benefits Of Using an Answering Service
  Answering Service Increases Profits
  People ARE listening! The question is – Are you saying anything worth hearing?
  An Answering Service is More Effective Than Voicemail
  Is Voicemail Ruining Businesses
  A Powerful First Voicemail and 13 Reasons to Leave It Part A
  Stop Working! Answer Your Office Phones!
  The 20 Worst Prospecting Voicemail Mistakes Salespeople Make
  Start your Visual Thinking Process with Mind Mapping
  7 Ways to Follow Up Persistence without Being a Pest
  Could You Be The World's Best Visual Storyteller?
  Leave Voicemail Messages That Get Returned!
  How to Make Cold Calling Opportunities Out of Voice Mails
  Power of Visual Thinking in your Visual Workplace
  Business Call Centers Help Businesses Cut Costs
  How A 24 Hour Call Center Benefits Businesses

Article Tags: telephony, visual voicemail, voicemail



Related Forum Posts
Re: What inspires you? - Put a Visual Board of your dream and look at it for 10 days. And see the fun. Another inspiration thing is to have "Constant Positive Affirmations". This really shifts energy towards your goal. Say it in the morning and before bed. Robert
Re: What I Enjoyed Reading This Week - July 29 - Nice selection - especially as I was able to go through the three that interested me in a 10 minute-dead-slot before dinner time! Persistence = constantly improving and inventing, not banging the same head against the same brick wall! Visual.ly looks really interesting. I'll definitely check it out. I guess you directed us to the seat belt promo for the stunning direction. I have to say, I always wear a seatbelt - except in the back of taxis...
How To Build Great Pillar Content For Your Internet Business - I’ve found that a successful Internet businesses must start with a solid foundation. As I’ve seen, most Internet businesses will integrate a blog onto their website and start to build a solid foundation of pillar content. Pillar content or pillar articles are posts that are written to help a consumer establish what your Internet business is all about. What Is Pillar Content? This termed was first coined by a famous blogger called Yaro Starak at his website Entrepreneur’s Journey. Yaro provides the following detailed definition: “A pillar is blog content, usually an article, which does some very important things: * It will bring in a rush of new readers and backlinks (other sites linking to your blog). * It will continue to bring in more readers over time as you and other people refer to it, even though it may be buried in the archives of your blog. * Eventually it will bring in traffic from search engines (this is largely because so many other web pages link to it). * You can list it in a separate area (like an articles page) with all your other pillars so your best content can easily be accessed and your value clearly demonstrated. * It is not time dependent, so in twelve months’ time it will still be relevant and popular.” Why Is Pillar Content Important? Looking at the bigger picture, pillar content is your foundation of your Internet business as it will continue to bring consumers and readers to your website. You may think that just having a product or service to sell is all that’s needed to run a successful business. Not quite so. Consumers today are very hungry for information and want to know more about your business. Therefore providing pillar content relating to your products or services can add value for your consumers and generate more sales for you. For example, if I were selling a watch online and it had a description and listed features, it may not be enough for a consumer to purchase the watch from my site. Reason being, most people would want to read reviews from others who have purchased this watch and see their feedback. What if I wrote an article about the watch talking about the history and make of it and asked an expert to state their opinion, and had other consumers respond with comments and feedback. Then this would provide social proof and adds value to your product without the consumer leaving your site and spending time looking for more information elsewhere. Examples Of Pillar Content Most pillar content articles are longer than 500 words and have lots of practical tips or advice. There are many different forms of pillar content you can create and I have listed some examples below for you to apply to your industry: 1. How To Article - shows people how to do a certain task or instructions on building something 2. Definition Article - defines a term in your industry 3. Present A Theory Or Argument - writing to present some unique thought 4. Release A Significant Resource - a report, podcast, video 5. A “List” Article - it’s very easy to scan and share. Can be a top 10 list or action points 6. Technical Or Visual Guide - a screen capture presentation or how to fix something using a video presentation. It is also a very detailed step by step blueprint on exactly how to complete a task. Pillars I’ve seen how effective pillar content can be for any Internet business and I recommend you have at least 10 pillar articles on your website before marketing to consumers. That way you’ll provide them with something valuable to read and also gain their interest to come back again. If you can write an article each day using the above examples, then you can build a very strong foundation for your Internet business. Tyrone Shum Pillar Article Writer


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

Four Secrets to Earning Income as an Author

SEO and the Entrepreneur

Counselling - Who Needs It?

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.