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ASD Mobile 2.0: The Most Advanced Funeral Home Telecommunication App Available

We are pleased to introduce ASD Mobile 2.0, a state-of-the-art iPhone application that brings unparalleled control and convenience to your funeral home. Last December, ASD launched the first version of this sophisticated app and over 2,000 of our clients regularly utilize one of its features to manger their ASD account. Now, with the launch of ASD Mobile 2.0, funeral directors will have additional options and can access new mobile tools to conduct business away from the office.

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ASD Feature Spotlight: First Call Report

Our First Call Report allows owners and managers to monitor all First Call activity handled by their on-call staff. After your on-call person receives a First Call, ASD will send complete details and a recording of the call to the owner's or manager's cell phone or email account. The First Call Report displays each step taken to reach your on-call staff and keeps clients on top of all business opportunities, even when others are on-call.

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ASD Feature Spotlight: Reply to Messages via Text or Email

How many times in your career have you had to leave a meeting or a service to answer an urgent phone call? This scenario occurs in funeral homes nearly everyday, and ASD was the first to create a solution. We custom-designed our text and email-messaging systems, allowing you to reply to messages without being called by ASD. This feature has already saved thousands of funeral homes time while reducing their billable phone calls.

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Top Ways to Save On Your ASD Bill

At ASD, we are committed to helping you manage your business needs in the most cost effective way possible. Through our partnerships and custom-built features, you could dramatically reduce and even eliminate your monthly ASD bill. If you're not taking advantage of these profitable opportunities, you could be missing out on thousands of dollars of savings. Here are some ways we have helped our clients lower their costs without sacrificing the level of service offered.

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ASD Tests Quarterly Crisis Notification System

This Sunday, January 8, ASD will administer the quarterly test of our Crisis Notification System at 4 p.m. EST. This test helps us to perfect our notification system to ensure that we can quickly communicate with you in the event of an emergency. The Crisis Notification System was created to provide your funeral home with a timely and reliable notification in the event of a serious loss of capacity at ASD.

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Introducing ASD Mobile: A Powerful New iPhone App that Saves Your Funeral Home Time & Money

With ASD Mobile, you can now use your iPhone to access messages, record obituary information, change your on-call status and more, all with the touch of a button! The app was created as a mobilized one-stop solution for clients to manage their ASD account. After several months of careful planning and testing, ASD Mobile went live on Monday, December 12th. You can now download the app at no cost on Apple's iPhone app store.

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ASD Feature Spotlight: Smart Text

ASD has developed mobile solutions such as a Smart Text option for our clients who regularly use Smart Phones to provide you with more freedom to conduct business on the go. With the Smart Text feature, every time an ASD call specialist handles a “First Call” for your funeral home, the information will be text-messaged with a useful hyperlink. From your smart phone, you can click the hyperlink to open a webpage and read the message or listen to an audio recording of the call.

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Going On Vacation? Planning a Holiday Party? We've Got You Covered!

Every major holiday, ASD creates a special schedule that includes all of our employees. While our call specialists work shorter shifts, scheduling all of our operators increases the overlap of employees to guarantee the office is never short staffed.

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ASD Tests Quarterly Crisis Notification System

Every season, ASD transmits a quarterly message to test the functionality of the broadcast system and to verify that your funeral home’s emergency contact preferences are up-to-date.

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About ASD

ASD - Answering Service for Directors - has been helping Funeral Homes to manage their calls and their lives since 1972.

ASD now serves more than 5000 funeral homes and is the preferred choice among Independent Funeral Homes and Funeral Home Directors. Our goal is to provide the same level of customer service and satisfaction that our Funeral Homes have been providing to families for generations.