That’s right, as of last week, anyone can now get a SayNow number for free. And you can use it however you’d like! i.e.

• To hear from people you may not know (but might want to know).
• To broadcast messages to people who want to hear from you - from your phone to theirs.
• To chat with and meet new people!

A SayNow number also lets the people who call your line send messages to each other (it’s like having a party on your line where all the people who like you can meet each other too. You don’t even have to make any formal introductions :-)

We hope you have fun with it. Definitely send us your feedback and let us know what we can do better!

We have an opportunity for one lucky intern to join us this summer at our Palo Alto office and dive head first into the music and tech industry…have some fun, earn some money, learn a lot.

You have to be at least a junior in high school.

This position requires someone who is very social, loves music, and is outgoing. To apply, send an email to interns@saynow.com and tell us why we should hire you.

As some of you guys know, we’ve been slowly rolling out a new feature that lets people take LIVE phone calls through their SayNow number whenever they want.

We’re calling it SayNow LIVE and letting a few people test it out right now. I think we’ll eventually turn it on for everyone but for all you fans out there, I just wanted to give you a few tips in case you call and the Jonas Brothers or Selena Gomez answers the phone.

Remember to BREATHE and TRY NOT TO SCREAM! Also, you have a better chance of getting through if

1. You’ve registered with SayNow and uploaded a photo.
2. You don’t leave crazy messages (unless they’re funny).
3. You leave good messages! You get bonus points if other fans favorite your message.

Good luck!

Hi all! We’re going to be doing some maintenance from 10pm - 3am PST tonight so our service will be down during those hours. We hope you’re either sleeping or snuggling or watching a good movie at that time. We’ll be back when the sun comes up!

We’d love to know what’s working for you and what you’d like us to improve. We won’t be handling specific support requests on this line, but we may send occasional updates on new features and changes we make to the service. If you have a support request or if something isn’t working with your account, you can leave a message on the line, but you should also go to our support page to send us a message so we can fix it faster.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Hello SayNow people! Just wanted to let you know that we’re going to be doing some scheduled maintenance on our service tomorrow Nov. 15 from 11:30pm to about 5am PST. (So if you notice that our site is down between those times, don’t fret. We’ll be back much improved and speedier).

Here’s our newest team member at her desk making sure things go according to plan.

If you have an account on SayNow and want to make a REAL MEASURABLE IMPACT on this year’s presidential election, we’d like to help you get your fans to the voting polls. We can make this EASY by connecting your fans to a voter registration hotline of your choice (if you don’t know of any, we can recommend one).

All you have to do is:

• Tell your fans to register by pressing a key on their phone

All your fans have to do is:

• Press a key after listening to your message to be connected to the hotline.

GET IN TOUCH WITH US ASAP TO SET THIS UP FOR YOUR LINE. Send an email to may@saynow.com or vanae@saynow.com

Thanks!

UPDATE: I’ll keep updating this list - here are some SayNow stars encouraging people to vote!

Brandon T. Jackson (10/8/08)

Cassie (10/3/08)

Donnie Klang (10/3/08)

Danity Kane (10/3/08)

Kevin Liles (10/3/08)

Bow Wow on his Walk Across America (10/2/08)

Chamillionaire (10/2/08)

Right now, you can get one!…for free!…and you don’t even have to dance like Chris Brown or give us your left kidney. Just tell us your SayNow username, your MySpace page or website, and why you’d like one. You do have to show us that you’re actually gonna use it with your fans or a group of friends, but that’s it.

Having your own SayNow number will make it super easy for people to send you voice messages and to get them from you - just tell them to call your SayNow number. No need to fuss with a flash widget or text a confusing code to anyone.

Also, whenever you want to send a message to all your fans, call your SayNow number from your cell phone and say what you want. You can also send personal replies and actually call your fans back while keeping your real number private.

We’re only offering numbers for a limited time and on a first come basis so let us know if you’re interested - send an email to loren {at} saynow.com.

Do you ever find yourself wanting to save a message you really like so you can listen to it again later on or play it for a friend? Well you can.

When you’re listening to a message on someone else’s SayNow page (or your own SayNow page), just click the “Favorite” button to add it to your list of favorites.

When you’re listening to a message you like on the phone just press 3 to favorite it.

You can find your favorites at the bottom of your SayNow page: http://www.saynow.com/yourusername.

Eventually you’ll be able to listen to your favorites on the phone too, but right now, you can only listen to them on the web…which means you need to sign up if you want to do that. Signing up is free and gives you lots of other options like email notifications (if you don’t want text messages) and much more!

We’re going to start doing some tests with text and voice advertising for a few of our broadcasters. If you’re interested in having advertising turned on for your line and helping us test, let us know.

Advertising is one way we’re hoping to keep the service free for broadcasters and listeners, but there are lots of things we haven’t worked out yet.

If you’re a fan of someone on SayNow who has advertising turned on, we also want to know what you think. Our hope is to deliver information that’s relevant and interesting to you and since we’re just starting, there may be some hiccups as we develop and tweak a system that does this. Let us know!!