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Preferred Voice Completes Phase One of National Master
Distributors Recruitment
Business Wire - February 01, 1999 08:50
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 1999--Preferred Voice, Inc. (OTC BB:PFVI),
headquartered here, said today it has successfully completed phase one of its recruitment of Master
Distributors, adding distributors in Boston, Mass.; Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Tallahassee, Jacksonville
and Palm Beach, Fla.; Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, and McAllen, Texas; and
Detroit, Mich., each of whom has paid a fee for their territory.
G. Ray Miller, Preferred Voice CEO, said, "The Master Distributor recruitment program was directed
towards well-established organizations with large customer bases already in place that could use the
Emma Family of services. Early indications give us good reason to believe that large numbers of these
customers are ready for our next-generation of services. "By recruiting, for example, Master
Distributors who are currently active in the answering service business, voice mail or the paging
business," Miller said, "we gain immediate access to hundreds of thousands of potential customers. Our
Master Distributors are enthusiastic, experienced entrepreneurs with sales forces in place and
marketing dollars available to get the job done."
Roy Emmett, a 25-year veteran of the personal communications industry and Preferred Voice's first
Master Distributor, summed up the reasons his company became a Preferred Voice Master
Distributor. He said, "We love Emma and the whole family of voice recognition services created by
Preferred Voice, but more importantly, we understand that these services will radically change the way
people communicate. They offer value to our customers that is very compelling, if we do not take the
initiative and bring these services to our customers today, somebody else is going to do it."
The Emma Family of services includes "Emma" T.R. (telephone receptionist) that can professionally
answer a company's phone 24 hours a day using speech recognition technology. The service can
locate an employee anytime at any phone in the USA. Emma will screen calls speaking the caller's
name. Emma has a voice activated dialing directory of names so you don't have to remember or dial
phone numbers. Each service includes an 888 number for national presence as well as a local number
in platform cities. Emma services can work from any phone (office, home, cellular, fax, hotel, etc.)
located locally or anywhere in the USA.
According to Rick Stone, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Preferred Voice, "The basic
qualifications we look for in a Preferred Voice Master Distributor are: 1) a proven track record
marketing to small and medium size businesses, 2) a large existing customer base, and 3) of course, the
financial capabilities to operate a successful company. To date, the distributors we have selected are
key players in the personal communication services industry." For information on the Preferred Voice
Master Distributorship program for selected major cities in the USA call toll-free 800/390-6478 and
ask for Rick Stone. Preferred Voice, Inc. developed their Voice Integrated Platform (VIP) as a
modular PC Windows NT system, which combines the company's proprietary software with the
technology and algorithms developed by Dallas-based Voice Control Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq/NMS:VCSI). VCSI is the telecommunications industry's largest supplier of speech
recognizers with over 2.5 million deployed in over 30 countries worldwide. Preferred Voice is the first
company with both business and consumer based services to utilize VCSI's revolutionary
SpeechWave phonetic speech recognition technology.
CONTACT: Preferred Voice, Inc.
Rick Stone, 214/265-9580
or
Equity Communications
Ira Weingarten, 805/897-1880
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