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Thursday,
January 17,
2002
Instant Web Audio System is now
ready for you..
Dear R&D Team..
Well, there are the those occasions when we do end up
underpromising, and I guess this is one of those...
Effective immediately, you may create an audio message for the
visitors to your CoachVilleReferral listing.
The instructions are below.
This is a custom built $25,000 hardware/software system and I believe it will
work flawlessly for you.
You may experience a busy signal when
attempting to call into the system to record your message,
especially in the 2 hours after this broadcast goes to the 1,000
folks on the R&D Team. We only have 2 incoming lines for
this recording system. If busy, just call back later.
Please do not tell anyone else about
this system. We'll make the formal announcement in two weeks
to all 8500 CoachVille members.
And, hey, when you get a new client because the sound of your
voice helped, please let me know!
Best,
Thomas
Instructions
To be a beta tester, you must already have a listing at CoachVilleReferral. If you don't yet have a listing at CoachVilleReferral.com go there now and first create a listing for yourself before you following the beta testing instructions below. Go to
http://www.coachvillereferrral.com
first.
If you already have a listing at CoachVilleReferral, then here are your steps to adding audio to your website (and to your CoachVille Referral listing), for free!
(1) Go to http://www.coachvillereferral.com
(2) Click on the "Add/Update Your listing" link.
(3) Log in to the system using your email address and password. (This is the email address you used when you joined CoachVille.)
(4) On the Create or Update Your Listing Page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and locate the "RealAudio Interview/Welcome" feature.
(5) Click the checkbox beside "Add a 3 minute RealAudio Link" and click the "Submit information" button.
(6) Check your email inbox for a message with subject line "Your CoachVilleReferral RealAudio Purchase" and follow the instructions to record your RealAudio welcome. This email should arrive within a few minutes to an hour. Suggestion: Write down and practice reading your message aloud before calling our system. And, a note, if we get a lot of beta testers jumping on the system, you may get a busy signal when you call the system. This shouldn't be a problem for much more than the first two hours or so.
(7) Once you've completed the instructions in number 6 (which is basically picking up the phone and calling our system's computer in Raleigh, North Carolina, and recording your welcome message) you'll receive another email confirming that your recording has been successful and transferred to our server. To see how you sound, just go back to
http://www.coachvillereferrral.com.
search for your name at the home page and click on the newly added logo to your listing that says 'click to hear me.'
(8) If you also have a website of your own, you'll find that the email we send you after you've recorded your welcome message will also contain the single line of HTML code that you can insert anywhere on your website. We host the RealAudio file for you at no cost.
That's it!
I hope you enjoy the process of adding audio interactivity to your CoachVilleReferral listing! If you have any questions, please email me at
andrea@coachville.com and I will be happy to help.
And of course, we'll be looking forward to your feedback, comments, and critique of the system so that we can perfect it before launching to the entire membership January 28, 2002. Please send these me at
andrea@coachville.com with "CoachVilleReferral Audio" in the subject line.
Also, even though this is a beta test, your welcome message is real and it will work just fine. You won't have to change it later when we launch, unless you want to.
All the best,
Andrea Lee
GM, CoachVille
andrea@coachville.com
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