Constituant+Communications

Just got off the phone w/ sales person from alertnow - and wanted to compare apples to apples. bottom line is alertnow is $3/student = $2880 per year. it's a yearly renewal and I don't know what we're paying for constant contact.

what we would get from AlertNow -
 * the ability to send messages through email, text messages, cell and regular phones.
 * We can also do phone surveys, w/ up to 5 yes or no questions answered by pressing 1 or 2, & immediate results.
 * Their contact list automatically syncs w/ PowerSchool, so emails and phone #'s only have to be updated once.
 * Can also do text-to-speech translation in 12 languages.
 * You can also create a message from any phone= you don't have to have access to a computer and the internet to send out a message. (You just call in to their 24 hr service center and tell them you want to create an email and they send it out for you.)
 * If you choose to make your message an emergency broadcast, then the message goes out to every contact by every method available, with 411 in the caller id to alert the contact of the important status.
 * **The only thing they don't do - the emails aren't as pretty/customizable**
 * //Update//** - I found that we are paying approximately $400/year for [|Constant Contact].