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Aliso Viejo - CA United States
The big idea: In 25 words or less, please tell us how this Fast 50 Nominee is helping to address the planet's problems.
YouMail is changing the way mobile users interact, manage, share and delegate their voicemail messages, while providing a service that is productive and fun.
Please describe how this nominee is using business as a force of positive change. What technology, idea, or strategy is the nominee using -- and what problem, such as global warming, poverty, or pollution, does it address? (suggested length: 100 words)
Listening to voicemails can be very time consuming, especially when they come from unwanted callers. Voicemails are also generic and impersonalized in content, and YouMail is here to remedy these problems with multiple outlets for personalizing and managing voicemail for free.
YouMail, the mobile industry’s premiere consumer voicemail service, provides a dramatically better cell phone voicemail service that allows users to better express their personality and be more productive through a collection of unique and powerful features, and the leveraging of the YouMail community of users. YouMail provides enhanced notification of incoming voicemail through text messages and/or e-mails. The service has a growing set of distribution partnerships with major mobile service and content providers. The YouMail service was designed for users to have a fun experience with voicemail, while providing a product that increases user’s productivity.
What are the results, both financial and social? How has the nominee's business performed, and what impact has it had on the problem it addresses? (suggested length: 100 words)
YouMail has increased its user base by providing mobile users options in accessing information that better fit their changing lifestyles. With the growth of mobile handsets and mobile advertising, YouMail is one of a few who are focusing on enhancing they way people interact with their voicemail, in order to provide a productive, organized and connected mobile user.
YouMail is also an innovator in personalizing and managing voice greetings based on caller id. Users can achieve this by recording greetings themselves, or easily choosing from a large and growing library of user-generated greetings and away messages. This lets users express themselves differently to their friends, family and co-workers, while maintaining a standard greeting for unknown callers.
Comments that readers have made about this submission:
awesome service
I've been using YouMail for almost a year now and I think it's one of the best new consumer applications I've found in years. I always though of voicemail as out of date and antiquated by YouMail brings a new freshness to voicemail that I think sort of gives it a re-birth to voicemail.
Good stuff - I love that everything is free
Great ideas!
The 21st century cell phone.
Great top notch service! I have been using since it first came out. No complaints. Love it!
I use Youmail because it is a GREAT service. It also allows you more freedom than your normal cell phone service. You can check your voicemails via the web, you can keep a list of phone callers opposed to waiting for your phone bill to arrive. You can add friends or people you don't wish to talk to by putting them in categories. YOu can also create private greetings for callers. Like if your grandma calls you can record a special message where you say something like, "Hey Nana! I am in class, or at Movies! I will call you at 7pm today.." example. I love YOUMAIL because recently had to block someone from harrasing me. It's easy to simply DITCH their calls and set recording to "NUMBER Disconnected." Problem solved.
I love it!
