Recording Phone Calls (The Exact Device)
Okay, I spoke about recording phone calls in an earlier post. Many people have said they were having a hard time finding the device needed.
So you can pick this up at www.RadioShack.com or phone a local store near you.
The part number is: #43-1237 (Mini Recorder)
The great part about this device is that it only costs about $15 bucks and it has a toggle switch for Recording / Play Back. This alone has some pretty nifty uses.
Let's say I have teleconference training that I'm holding on Monday, now I want to do the exact same call every Monday for new leads / audiences but I want to give them the convenience of being able to just pick up the phone (meaning I'm not just using Audio Generator to post it online).
Well what I can do is Record Monday nights call on any device (MP3 / Tape / CD). Then next week I just switch the toggle to Play Back, jump on the call and have everyone say where they're calling from with a little live interaction, then press PLAY on my mp3 player which is hooked up and VIOLA... I can now go have dinner while my recording is being played for the audience.
Because I know how long the recording lasts, I like to set a timer for 5 minutes before it's over and then come back from what ever I was doing (usually just multi-tasking with other projects) and open up the call at the end for a live Q/A session.
So that's yet another way to use technology and save you massive amounts of time.
Hope this has been helpful.
So you can pick this up at www.RadioShack.com or phone a local store near you.
The part number is: #43-1237 (Mini Recorder)
The great part about this device is that it only costs about $15 bucks and it has a toggle switch for Recording / Play Back. This alone has some pretty nifty uses.
Let's say I have teleconference training that I'm holding on Monday, now I want to do the exact same call every Monday for new leads / audiences but I want to give them the convenience of being able to just pick up the phone (meaning I'm not just using Audio Generator to post it online).
Well what I can do is Record Monday nights call on any device (MP3 / Tape / CD). Then next week I just switch the toggle to Play Back, jump on the call and have everyone say where they're calling from with a little live interaction, then press PLAY on my mp3 player which is hooked up and VIOLA... I can now go have dinner while my recording is being played for the audience.
Because I know how long the recording lasts, I like to set a timer for 5 minutes before it's over and then come back from what ever I was doing (usually just multi-tasking with other projects) and open up the call at the end for a live Q/A session.
So that's yet another way to use technology and save you massive amounts of time.
Hope this has been helpful.
posted by Segovia Smith @ 9:08 PM
3 Comments:
At 9:59 PM,
FrankD! said…
So you just go and take off and do shit while people sit there and listen to the recording. Hahahaha....that's awesome. The best would be if the device were to quit on you and people were sitting there until you came back into the room.
Rock on bro.
At 11:11 AM,
Lou D'Alo said…
Hey Segovia - Lou here, from your AM2 mastermind group.
I used to record the way you're doing it, but these days, I don't use an external gadget and recorder anymore for a number of reasons:
- you have to have the physical gadget and recorder with you wherever/whenever you want to record a teleseminar - if you travel or happen not to be near your home/office at the time of the teleseminar...you're baked.
- you can't use it with a lot of PBX-based hotel phones (yes, I do teleseminars from hotels!)
- no control over the recording levels
- no normalization between the callers and the host loudness
- IMHO the quality isn't good enough to sell in $97+ infoproducts.
Nowadays I prefer to use a conference bridge that offers 250 free lines, built-in (high quality!) recording service, mp3 downloads, podcast/rss feeds, a web control panel that displays callers (with Caller ID and even Names, if you program them), and a caller "Hand up" feature so you can keep the lines muted for recording quality, but unmute a specific caller who indicates s/he has a question. Can't be beat - especially because it's all f-r-e-e.
Activate a line for yourself and test it out:
http:/TeleseminarFortunes.com/freeconference
or just send an email to freeconference@aweber.com
(One caveat: you can only activate one bridge line per email address. Need more than one teleconference bridge, just create additional accounts under different email addresses.)
Lou
At 8:23 AM,
Segovia Smith said…
Hey Lou,
Thanks for the tip. I too have found alternate soltions for many reasons, including a lot of travel, etc.
Your example works great when it's your teleseminar you're trying to record, however if you want to record someone elses event just so you can keep a copy and listen to it later, you may need another solution.
I use AudioAcrobat to simply do a three way call from my AA recording line into the teleconference bridge line. This works fantastic in most cases and may only be limiting on a cell phone if you didn't have 3-way calling.
Just another solution to get the job done.
Cheers,
Segovia
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