More than three phone numbers for a lead?

[darryldale]

We have a collections campaign where we could potentially have half a dozen different phone numbers that we would like to try to reach the client at.

Right now we don't have a lot of collectors so the campaign is set to manual dial. I have configured the third address field as a phone number and they can pick the two alternate numbers to dial for the lead.

How would I go about having it so they could dial more than the three numbers without having to manually key the numbers? (my first thought was to just put the numbers in the notes and have them dial them but there must be a better way).

Darryl

[mflorell]

For auto-dial you can use Extended alt dial numbers which allow you to have up to 65,000 phone numbers per lead. But this feature does not work for manual dial. To load these extended alt-dialing numbers into the system you have to use the non-Agent API or the CLI/FTP lead loader(not the web-based lead loader).

[williamconley]

and having the system set to auto-dial is still preferred, even if you only have ONE collector.

if your agents get used to using manual dial, it can take a complete "employee reload" to remove the bad habits learned.

[darryldale]

I am already using the ftp loader so that shouldn't be an issue.

Looks like I'll have to look into how to make auto dialling work in our small environment to use the other numbers then......

Darryl

[williamconley]

In the end, it will work better. Have a look at your stats ... number of clients talked to, total talk time (vs total time in the office). You'll find that auto-dial keeps the agents talking to prospects much more than manual dial does.

This may be a blessing in disguise, since now you can honestly tell the agents that 4 #s = autodial. No choice. Sorry.

[saulortega]

For auto-dial you can use Extended alt dial numbers which allow you to have up to 65,000 phone numbers per lead. But this feature does not work for manual dial. To load these extended alt-dialing numbers into the system you have to use the non-Agent API or the CLI/FTP lead loader(not the web-based lead loader).

Hello.

Where i can put the file with the extended leads via FTP?

I need to do some additional configuration after?

[williamconley]

For auto-dial you can use Extended alt dial numbers which allow you to have up to 65,000 phone numbers per lead. But this feature does not work for manual dial. To load these extended alt-dialing numbers into the system you have to use the non-Agent API or the CLI/FTP lead loader(not the web-based lead loader).

Hello.

Where i can put the file with the extended leads via FTP?

I need to do some additional configuration after?

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