Have you ever thought about using Sound Branch on your smartphone with voice notes (like a PTT walkie talkie), text and photo? Here are 50 reasons for you to consider using the app:
- 50% of all searches will be voice searches by 2020
- Thinking more and speaking less is what all good leaders know
- Allows people to prepare for answers
- Playback conversations
- No need to take meeting minutes
- Reduce your reliance on email
- Communicate across time zones avoiding anti-sociable meeting hours
- Use conversational analytics to make data based decisions
- Measure people’s engagement
- Gives people a voice
- Get people working outside of silos
- Flatten the hierarchy
- Communicate the way millennials want to be communicated to
- Learn languages in new ways
- Get to the customer truth
- Use the wisdom of the crowd
- Feel the empathy of the human voice
- Evidence your work and build a portfolio
- Create a podcast on the fly and in the cloud
- No need to edit your audio because all audio is in 10 second chunks
- No need to script your podcasts
- Like and share people’s opinions
- Post audio on Twitter using Twitter cards
- Create podcasts for all your blogs
- Interview people in an innovative new way
- Create audio based frequently asked questions
- Re-imagine the telephone interview
- Create audio profiles with people skills and experiences
- Conduct interviews over weeks not set days in time
- Improve your communication skills and play back what you have said
- Create voice memos and to do reminders
- Understand it’s not what somebody says but it’s how they say it
- Manage your Salesforce in an innovative way
- Better connect your remote workforce
- Increase transparency within your organisation
- One in four Americans listen to a podcast on a monthly basis
- Support staff at the point of need
- Understand what’s going on at Ground Zero
- Turn some meetings and online meetings into voice messaging conversations to save time
- Transfer knowledge between people
- Play your audio on Amazon echo and Google home devices
- Allow people to connect using their voice in connected cars
- One-to-many voicemails so people are kept in the know
- Businesses and other organisations are starting to use messaging apps to speak to customers
- Giving feedback is no longer a chore
- A new innovative way to gain feedback versus the boring online survey form
- Remove the time dependency and pressures of a phone call
- Powerfully search for keywords in audio conversations
- Understand the mood of your key stakeholders and their agenda
- The voice is the best human organ of communication, not the fingers – get people looking up away from their smart screens!