Welcome to Blast Companies

In today's highly competitive environment, consistent and creative marketing can be a huge challenge. Companies are looking for a partner who has multi-channel capabilities and target marketing services to reach their clients in new and exciting ways.

Blast Companies can deliver personalized messages across various mediums, helping our clients dramatically increase brand awareness, profitability and productivity. By providng the most robust set of broadcast applications in the industry, we offer clients, ad agencies and partners the following broadcast messaging applications:

• voice broadcasting services
• e-mail marketing services
• text messaging
• gps enabled target marketing
• broadcast marketing applications
• social messaging
• ivr - outbound
• ivr - inbound
• broadcast messaging overview

By understanding your needs and matching them with the appropriate broadcast technology, we can make a dramatic impact at your company. Please browse our website and contact us so we can help take your business or next promotion to another level.

Voice Broadcasting

Dial an 800 number and record a personalized message, upload a list of phone numbers and send out thousands of calls in a matter of minutes. It's just that simple to speak to your audience with Blast Companies voice broadcasting software. It has never been easier to boost response rates to a direct mailing, send customer reminders, or invite people to upcoming events. These are just some of the ways in which Blast Companies voice broadcast service can build your customer base, increase sales and improve your bottom line.

Some examples of our voice broadcasting services include automated subscription renewals, automated payment reminders, disaster notifications and recovery, appointment reminders, fraud alerts and to announce new products & promotions. And these are just some of the possible applications of our flexible and reliable voice broadcasting application.

With Blast Companies' voice broadcasting services, there's no hardware or software to buy. Everything is done through our website! All you need is internet access and a phone and you're ready to launch your personalized voice broadcast! In addition, you'll not only receive the support of a dedicated Blast Companies account representative, but also our assistance with your voice marketing efforts. We'll help identify where voice broadcasting services would best serve your organization and how to best speak to your audience.

E-Mail Marketing

Ever wish you could dynamically generate and launch targeted, personalized e-mail marketing campaigns right from your desktop? Ever wonder how many consumers were receiving, opening and responding to your e-mail marketing efforts? Our web based services help organizations of any size create, send and monitor e-mail campaigns to targeted customer segments. Our robust email marketing campaign solutions have the ability to expand and grow, providing an incredible return on investment for our clients.

Blast Companies' user-friendly, web-based interface and HTML Email wizards allow your organization to send bulk e-mails quickly and cost effectively. After you launch your email campaign, you can track the effectiveness by viewing real time reports on who opened the email, how many click throughs to your web site the email campaign produced and who clicked on the links.

Your organization can create powerful HTML e-mails using our step-by-step wizards and pre-built email templates. With our solution there's no technical or design expertise required to change images, add personalization, build dynamic content, create links or format the look and feel of your email marketing campaign. And with our sophisticated reporting and tracking, clients can view who opened their email, clicked on established links and purchased products allowing companies to expand and improve future results.

Text Messaging

Are you an advertising agency or corporate marketing organization looking for a mobile marketing partner with creative strategies, robust cell phone marketing applications and the ability to execute your mobile marketing campaigns? Are you ready to embrace mobile marketing as a means of brand interaction?

Blast Companies provides our clients with cost effective SMS text messaging applications which produce measurable results. Through the creative use of mobile messaging, enhancements can be made in sales acquisition, brand recognition and customer loyalty by generating timely, relevant and targeted mobile content to users.

Some examples of Blast Companies' SMS text messaging services include:

• Direct Text Message Response
• CRM Triggered Text Blasts
• Promotional SMS campaigns
• Text Messaging Sweepstakes
• SMS Txt Message Coupons
• Financial SMS Text Message Alerts
• Healthcare Compliance Text Message Alerts
• New offers through a SMS Messaging Club
• Non-profit SMS Text Message Donations

Broadcast Marketing

Consumers are continuously being bombarded with an ever-increasing amount of information on a daily basis and they are mandating brands become more creative and respectful of their time. Blast Companies Consumer Decoder™ is a data capture application which enables brands and ad agencies the ability to speak to consumers on their terms. During the registration process, we gather relevant contact information, via the web, segmenting consumers into several different communication groups. During this time we also ask consumers to choose a preferred medium of contact for future brand dialog opportunities. This provides companies a real opportunity to increase brand loyalty since customers decide how they would like to receive marketing communications from the brand.

Some applications for Consumer Decoder™ include:

• Registration for promotional event
• Alerts for corporate meetings & emergencies
• Corporate or campus notification tool
• Timely weather and disaster alerts
• Brand communications
• Schools class cancellations, closings, updates

Call us directly at 888-642-5278 and speak to a sales consultant to see how Consumer Decoder™ will meet your broadcast marketing needs!

GPS Enabled Marketing

Ever wish you could use GPS technology to locate your loyal customers and provide them with location-based incentives? Would it help your business to be able to Provide opt-in alerts based on the location of the phone?

With the advent of GPS chips coming soon to most mobile handsets, Blast Companies is ready to assist your brand with GPS broadcast marketing and messaging. Blast Companies' GPS messaging application enables our clients to send specialized messages to mobile users based on their location and proximity to client establishments. Through GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology, when consumers enter a defined area (Geofence) they receive location-based marketing messages on their mobile phone. The application provides the ability to create just-in-time marketing messages based on mobile users preferences and current promotions.

How is Blast Companies GPS messaging used?

• Movie alerts at nearby theatres
• Location-based mobile alerts
• Mobile maintenance work orders & job status
• Destination wait status (restaurants, theme parks)
• Weather and Disaster Location based alerts

Don't make your customers and prospects work to find your locations and current incentives. Give them the ease of using GPS technology to drive traffic and redeem on-demand coupons based on your inventories and sales volumes!

Social Messaging

Wonder what it would be like to have one mobile messaging application which could combine all of the benefits of a mobile community such as games, promotions, and videos on one platform? Ever wish you could have an application which would be able to be provide social networking capabilities to interact with both on-line and on-premise branding opportunities?

Blast Companies Social Messaging™ is a comprehensive web-based interactive messaging application that combines several proprietary mobile messaging technologies and strategies that enable our clients to deliver real time interactivity to any on-premise event. This powerful messaging application tool integrates the power of the internet and mobiles phones to harness new and exciting marketing opportunities for our clients and their brands. Mobile consumers finally truly have opt-in mobile marketing since they now have the chance to interact with your brand regularly.

Blast Companies not only handles the strategy but all the on-site execution, maintenance, technology integration with interactive partners and all related logistics to make this application a success.

Please contact us so we provide you with a customized demonstration and better understand your how Blast Companies Social Messaging™ application can make impact on your next broadcast marketing promotion.

IVR - Outbound

Ever wish you could create a standardized outbound message and send it out to hundreds or even thousands of users at once? Do you need the ability to tie the outbond calls into your client account database so that each customer called receives personalized information and prompts based upon their individual account? Has your team discussed automating processes and reducing costs? We can help!

Our Outbound IVR (Integrated Voice Response) solution allows companies to create sophisticated and personalized messages which interact with callers. By automating processes, clients have seen a dramatic increase in productivity and profitability. Our proven strategic process has yielded creative and focused solutions that support our clients' business directions. Listed below are some of the ways in which Blast Cmpanies' clients are using Outbound Interactive Voice Response:

• RoboCalling
• Automated Collection Services
• Scheduled Appointment Reminders
• Saleforce/Workforce Communications
• Credit Card Activation
• Customer Surveys
• Extended Warranty Sales

Please contact us to discuss how a personalized outbound IVR can help automate your business and provide a significant return on investment for your business.

IVR - Inbound

Businesses need to route calls quickly, accurately and economically in order to meet the increasingly complex needs of today's customer. Blast Companies automated IVR (interactive voice response) system enables callers to dial a 800 number and interact directly with information stored in a database through either touchtone or voice activated prompts. This translates into expert-designed solutions which are easily navigated by your callers wanting information.

Small businesses to Fortune 500 companies can benefit from our inbound IVR services. Listed below are examples of inbound IVRs which have a dramatic impact on our client's bottom line.

• Employment Pre-Screening
• Dealer/Office Location
• Subscription Information and Fulfillment
• Homework Hotline
• Claims Processing and Billing,
• Market Research Applications

All IVR platforms are not created equal. If you are you looking for an interactive voice (IVR) response provider who has the broadcast messaging technology and marketing expertise to meet your needs, then please contact us so we can gather additional insight to help solve your business issues.