Thursday, November 24, 2011

Voicemail contest for Popfax Customers

Popfax.com, the global provider of professional Internet fax services, is pleased to announce a new contest for its customers. Five Amazon.com gift cards (€100 each) are waiting for the participants who send us the best audio spots about the Popfax service: an audio advertising, a thanking or greeting.

Popfax voice mail contestThe contest begins on November 21st, 2011 and is only open to customers who are legal residents of countries where Popfax provides fax numbers: France, USA, UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Netherland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and who have reached the age of majority at the time of entry.

Five winning voicemails (one in each of the following languages: French, English, Italian, Spanish and German) that promote Popfax will be selected by the Popfax.com marketing team and announced on January 9th, 2012. The selection will be made based on the voicemail that promotes the Popfax service in the most remarkable and enjoyable way. The winners will be notified by email and revealed on Popfax’s different social media accounts (including the Popfax Facebook page). The voicemails might be reused in Popfax communication.

“This voicemail contest invites our customers to use more of the features embedded in our unified messaging solution. Indeed, although we are well-known for our professional fax solutions, our service includes many productivity features like Internet fax, SMS, fax email, call transfer and voicemail... We are using this contest as an opportunity to promote the voicemail option to all our current and future customers, some of whom might have not yet discovered it. This feature allows end-users to set up their Popfax account as an answering machine and receive voice messages on the move, either by e-mail or by calling back their number like a traditional answering machine.” said Vladimir Popesco the CEO and founder of Popfax.com.

In order to take part in the contest, customers have to:

  1. Access their Popfax.com account, go to Account Management -> Voice parameters and enable the Voicemail option.
  2. Activate “Email notification” and “Permanent redirection of voice messages to your email box”, then click on “Modify”.
  3. Call their Popfax.com fax number and leave the voicemail related to Popfax that they think will be the “best” audio spot. As a result, they will receive the recorded voicemail in their email.
  4. Register the recorded voicemail in the contest.

More information on the contest’s rules and requirements can be found on the Popfax Facebook page.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Popfax launches a new mobile application for BlackBerry

Popfax.com, the leading European provider of professional Internet fax services has launched the Mobile PopCompanion for BlackBerry. This is a unified messaging application that allows end-users to send and receive faxes, SMSs and voice messages from their smartphones, even when they are on the move. The application is designed to extend the use of Popfax Internet fax services to BlackBerry devices, popular smartphones among Popfax’s professional customers.

The application is free and can be downloaded from the Popfax website or from Blackberry App World. It includes all Popfax features, allowing end-users to:

  • Manage their communication on the move – send faxes or SMSs to Popfax contacts, phone contacts or new contacts. Customize faxes with a cover page, receive notifications of fax delivery.
  • Benefit from instant access to their faxes from anywhere – preview, copy and forward faxes to an email address or another fax number. Only an Internet connection is required; everything else is managed by the PopCompanion application.
  • Organize personal contacts and faxes – manage personal contacts, set up groups of contacts, organize faxes in folders.
  • Benefit from voice features – listen to or download received voice messages, set up the Popfax account as an answering machine.

“Blackberry was the first mobile operating system that optimized email use from a mobile device. We are achieving the same optimization with faxing and unified messaging by Popfax, following our strategy of expanding online fax services to mobile devices. PopCompanion for BlackBerry is the second application that we have launched, after the one for Android. Our next release will be an iPhone application. By having an application on all the top professional mobile platforms, we will now serve most of our customers’ devices,” declared Vladimir Popesco, the General Manager of Popfax.com.

Professionals can now efficiently manage their business workflow with the Mobile PopCompanion, a pocket fax machine.