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TMCNet:  Study Reveals At-Home Loan Officers, MLM and Insurance Agents May Double in 2009

[January 08, 2009]

Study Reveals At-Home Loan Officers, MLM and Insurance Agents May Double in 2009

LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)--

A study performed by CallFire™ reveals that interest in at-home Virtual Call Center™ services has nearly doubled in the first week of operation of 2009. Weekly sales inquiries for at-home Virtual Call Centers have increased year over year by over 52%. CallFire's ‘new-user' sign up rate for Loan Officers, MLM agents and Insurance agents has also shown a 33% increase.

CallFire provides web-based predictive dialing and contact management tools that save time and organize at-home salespeople who need to contact thousands of businesses. In this dynamic economy, many Americans have chosen to supplement household income by embracing MLM & other work-from-home opportunities. This interest has resulted in a noted increase in sales inquiries for Virtual Call Center services.

"Fluctuations of interest in Virtual Call Center solutions are a good barometer of our economic environment," said Dinesh Ravishanker, CallFire CEO and co-founder. "As Americans find their time and checkbooks are increasingly leveraged they are trying to find ways to become more efficient. We're happy to provide a cost-effective solution for at-home sales agents that want to double or triple their sales effort by leveraging technology."

To further supplement CallFire's forecasted increase in at-home agents, the company has released a free iPhone application called FriendCast. Salespeople using FriendCast can easily send personal voice messages to many clients while on-the-go. The ad-supported service eliminates the time and hassle of making many phone calls and typing lengthy text messages while driving. Instead iPhone users can send a free voice-recorded personal message to many of their contacts at once.

For more information on CallFire.com, please visit: http://www.CallFire.com

FriendCast video review: http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=759

FriendCast on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=298171841

About CallFire

CallFire provides highly-scalable and affordable cloud telephony solutions, including Voice APIs, Voice Broadcast, Virtual Call Centers and VoiceXML. CallFire is a privately-held company headquartered in Los Angeles. CallFire's products enable various industries, including collections, government entities, healthcare, non-profits, political organizations and universities to simply and affordably set up call campaigns or virtual call centers through an on-demand, pay-as-you-go, api-driven platform. CallFire's Hosted Call Center API enables developers to integrate predictive dialing via web services. For more information on CallFire, please visit http://www.callfire.com.

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