Presenting the
Directpage Virtual Paging
Service...
What is it? It's a
paging service without the
pager. Directpage will
provide you a pager phone number
that can alert you at any email
address including your cell phone's
email address or as a text
message.*
If
you have a cell phone that gets text
messages and/or has email
capability, you may subscribe to the
Directpage Virtual Paging service
and get the benefits of a nationwide
pager without actually purchasing a
pager!
Here's how it
works:
Sign up for Directpage
Virtual Paging Service, either
numeric or alpha numeric.
You will be issued a pager phone
number (and a pager email address
if subscribing to alpha numeric
service)
When a person pages
you, the page will appear as
an email or text message
(including an email
displayed on your cell phone
if you provide your cell phone's
email address).
Now you may be
thinking, why wouldn't I just give
out my cell phone's email address
or phone number for texting
so people can page me or call me
directly?
Here are some reason's
why some current Directpage
customers have chosen the
Directpage Virtual Paging
service:
#1:
Privacy: Many
times you need to give a contact
phone number out to someone, such
as a plumber or electrician or
maybe a clerk at a business to
notify you of an appointment or that
something you ordered is available
for pickup. Your employer
may want a contact phone
number. You may want to
run a classified ad in a newspaper
or an online auction, you may even
want to run an ad in an out of town
newspaper but need a local access
number for that area. But
what if the wrong person were to be
given your personal cell phone
number, they could call you at all
hours of the day and night and
invade your personal
privacy. With the Directpage
Virtual Pager #, they could only
leave you a page or if you add
voicemail to your virtual pager #,
they could still leave you a voice
message, but they will not be able
to call you on your personal cell
phone #. There have been
many reasons why a separate
phone number would be required,
but privacy is the #1 reason.
Doctors and other medical
professionals appreciate the fact
they now only have to carry one
device instead of two!
#2.
Local Access Phone
#'s: For the
same reasons why people still use
pagers, a virtual pager can come in
handy for all types of reasons, for
example, college
students that live in one area
of the country but go to
school in another area
of the country can get a virtual
pager # local for their college, so
friends will not incur toll charges
when calling their out of town cell
phone #.
#3.
Advertising:
Suppose you need to run an ad that
advertises a special event.
You may want to have a phone
number for people to call for more
information or to get directions or
leave an RSVP. Why give out
your cell phone or home phone
number? Give out your
virtual pager phone number with
voicemail. You'll get notified
when people call, but they won't be
burning up your cell phone minutes
at the same time. You can
even get a virtual pager number for
another area of the United States
and have it alert you on your cell
phone, nobody would ever know
where you are!
#4 Test
Marketing:
Suppose you
want to run several ads and see
which ad gives you the best
response. Place a
different Directpage Virtual pager
phone number with voicemail in
each ad and see which one gets the
most messages! All of
the message alerts can end up at
your same email address, but you
will know which virtual phone
number was dialed by the pager
number that shows up in your email,
therefore you will know which ad
was responded to most.
#5 Cellphone
Cost Savings:
Cut down on the
minutes used on your cellphone.
Rather than have people call your
cellphone and waste valuable
minutes leaving voicemail
messages, have them page you.
Many times you are near a landline
phone and can just return the call
without using up your cellphone
minutes.
The possibilties
are
endless. What's even
better is that you can sign up online
and have your new virtual pager #
working the same
day (during the hours of
10am to 6pm eastern time Monday
through Friday)
*Before signing up for the
Directpage Virtual Paging Service to
be connected to your cell phone,
please check with your cellular
service provider to make sure your
plan includes a large enough email
messaging and/or text messaging
allowance. Although most cell
phone providers include an email
address and text messaging for cell
phones, they may charge a per
message rate that is not included in
your base service plan, Directpage
cannot be responsible for costs
incurred from your cellular service
provider.
