“Ease of use” is paramount to user acceptance

The Amerilert emergency notification system allows non-technical users to administer, manage or receive time-sensitive notifications. We believe that if a system has too many steps to implement, then it will be a barrier to success for your organization’s goals. Amerilert, above all, is easy to use.

Benefits for Administrators:

-Is Easy to Use
-Protects Your Subscribers
-Delivers Instantly
-Performs Reliably
-Conveniently Reduces Tasks
-Is Affordably Priced
-Sets Up Easily

Benefits for Recipients:

-Convenient
-Easy to use
-Fast
-Accurate
-Effective

Benefits for Administrators

Easy to Use. Amerilert was designed for non-technical users – both administrators and recipients. Every step of the registration process is self-explanatory, so no training is required of recipients and little training is needed for administrators.

Protect Your Subscribers. Amerilert can quickly alert your recipients with specific information to increase public safety no matter where they are – at home, at work, or at play. No standalone siren, email system, or phone dialer can do this. You can keep your subscribers out of harms way, whether it be dangerous road conditions, a criminal at large, or a terrorist threat.

Deliver Instantly. Amerilert sends out more than 18,000 SMS text messages every minute. To send an alert with a competing voice-based phone dialer to 1,000 people could take almost an hour.

Performs Reliably. Amerilert SMS notifications reach subscribers even if wired and wireless networks are jammed with callers. During a crisis when voice and data networks are all jammed, the small size of a SMS text message alert goes through first. Traditional telephone systems will become jammed during high volume, so recipients will likely not receive a recorded message in a timely manner. Email systems will suffer the same fate, because the Internet will slow during high traffic and result in emails being delivered much later than they were sent. Web pages and entire web sites may also become un-viewable during high traffic volume. Additionally, traditional telephones, emails and web pages assume that the recipient is standing by his/her home phone or actively looking at his/her email or web page when the message is sent, which is unlikely in today’s highly-mobile lifestyle.

Conveniently Reduce Tasks. Amerilert is convenient, because one person can send one alert that is sent to everyone on all delivery mechanisms. Using Amerilert, you effectively combine all these steps through one interface so you NEVER have to:

• compose and send an email blast
• contact the webmaster to update the web site accordingly
• contact the radio station to make an announcement
• contact the newspaper to post the news
• turn on the fire alarm or other siren system
• record a message on a phone dialer to call all recipients
• or worse, initiate a human phone tree

Affordably Priced. Amerilert is a fraction of the cost of older, larger, more complicated systems that involve hardware, software, network upgrades, migration paths, labor, etc. Amerilert can cost about $1.50 a year per person. There are no activation fees or hidden charges. Siren systems can cost $200,000 and require additional annual maintenance and repairs. Voice-based phone dialers can start at $20,000 with additional charges each time the system is used that could easily go into the $100,000s if used throughout the year.

Sets Up Easily. Amerilert is 100% web-based, so there is no hardware or software to buy and install. Unlike other systems that take weeks to install or integrate, Amerilert can be setup in 30 minutes. With SmartCode™, simply cut and paste a line of code into a new or existing web page to create a registration form or to display the actual notifications. This means there is no new system to create and users don't have to go to an unknown third-party site to start the registration process.

Benefits for Recipients

Convenient. It delivers notifications wherever subscribers are at the time of the announcement, because they most likely carry their mobile phone with them wherever they go.

Easy to use. Subscribers receive notifications without doing anything, unlike flipping through TV stations or operating a computer.

Fast. It delivers these important notifications within seconds of the official announcement.

Accurate. Subscribers receive up-to-date news even when the news changes, so they’ll never get outdated news unlike if they turned off the TV, radio or computer too soon.

Effective. Subscribers receive detailed information so they know exactly what is going on and can reference that info on the go.

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