Coretalk
For
Schools
Absentee Management
Sports / Event Teams
Reduce Communication Cost
Coretalk
 Coretalk is a PC to Mobile Texting product
• Operates from most PC’s
• Can operate in a network
• Doesn’t need to be internet enabled
 It is quick & easy to send texts
• To one or a group of recipients
• With standard & customised messages
 Coretalk is easy to manage
• Quick to manually enter and update customers
• Or synchronise with Outlook, files or other data
 Sent and received communication stored by recipient
• Sound alert advises receipt
• Easily see the trail of communication
 How could it help a school environment?
• I will show a few of its key features
Absentee
Notices
 Advise parents quickly
• Standard text message permanently set up
• Select the recipients
• Send a text to them all (one or both parents)
 Advantages
• Quick and simple – time saving
• Parent calls back or texts – cost reduction to the school
• Less intrusive to parents
• They will text from a meeting, but not call
• Improved “hit rate” compared to phoning
• Typically > 2 calls to achieve the same result
 It is that simple!
Managing Sports or
Events Teams
 Issues in managing teams
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Children and parents
Travel & after game pick up
Venue and time changes
Practices and events
Can be at awkward hours
 The coordinator may be mobile
• Only tool is a mobile phone
• Has to ring around (phone trees)
• May end up paying themselves!
 How does Coretalk get around this?
Managing
Teams
 Team members are all part
of a “group”
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One text can be sent directly
to the group
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Practice reminders
Game reminders
Advanced venue changes
Cancellations
 But sometimes you are not
near a PC!
Remotely Managing
Teams
 The manager / coach can be
remote from Coretalk
1. One text to Coretalk, with a prefix of
the group name
i.e. “u13g Venue change to Seddon Fields…”
2. Coretalk relays the text to all group
contacts
3. Problem solved!!
More On Teams
 Team members can query
the next event
1. They text a code
i.e. “nxtu13g
Meaning Next Under 13 gold
2. Coretalk responds with
details of the next game /
practice etc.
Team Management
Experience
 One person managed two soccer teams
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Two Cancellations
Three venue changes
Two time changes
 Changes were coped with quickly & easily
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Everyone arrived on time and effectively
 The system was very popular
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Everyone liked the ease of information flow
Parents now encouraging the club to use the system
for all teams
Coretalk General
 Texting is not always the solution
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But it can be part of the solution
It IS PERSONAL
Suits low emotion communications
Time critical, fact based, informative
 Potential other uses in a School environment
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Advice to parents of child in sick bay
Locating relievers
Staff alerts / meetings / messages
Events (arts, sports, picnics etc.)
Payment reminders
Coretalk Costs
 $80 per month rental $60 per month for schools
• Contract for 24 months
• One off installation costs $150
• Payment by direct debit
 Text costs scale with volume
1 – 99
100 – 2999
3000 – 4999
5000 +
17.8c
17c
16c
15c
(20 cents with GST)
Schools 15c per text fixed charge
 Sponsorship is an option…
• Coretalk can provide a prefix
All Costs EXCLUDE GST
Thank You
For Finding Out
About
Coretalk
Contact:
Mike Carroll
021 521 072