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A volunteer soccer coach sat down at the phone
one warm September evening in 1995, not looking
forward to his next hour, to be spent calling
all the soccer parents with a schedule change
for their child’s Augusta, Georgia team. Halfway
through the now-common ritual, Coach Alexander
thought ‘there’s got to be a better way’.
Alexander, a former engineer in the nuclear
power industry, diagrammed a simple telecom
software solution that allowed a digitally recorded
voice message to be delivered to an entire telephone
list in a matter of seconds. All Alexander had
to do was record his message into a phone receiver
and press a key to activate delivery. CallingPost
was born.
At the time, Alexander was serving in about
a dozen different volunteer organizations that
also needed the message system. His initial
idea was to provide the service locally and
completely free of charge to save youth coaches,
church groups, and civic organizations the time
it takes to call long lists of club members
or team parents. He put together a small home-based
company and began offering the service "free
of charge" to other coaches and local volunteer
groups. Soon, the new Georgia company was operating
in several southeastern states.
Today, CallingPost has enhanced the original
voice messaging service that Alexander developed
in 1995 and now delivers messages to all 50
states. While national growth has
forced CallingPost to require a small fee, it’s
still about as close to free as possible. The
original mission of helping volunteers with
communications remains the guiding principal
at CallingPost.
Over 40,000 religious, school, scout, neighborhood,
civic and sports groups have saved over three
million hours of frustration on the phone by
using CallingPost - America's one-to-many messenger.
Based on an average volunteer’s hourly value
of $16.05, this equates to saving over $52
million in labor costs for volunteer organizations
across the country.
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