Here is a re-print from the SapulpaHeraldOnLine.com written by John Brock about our new company that saves lives and ends TEXTING AND DRIVING... enjoy...
"A Creek County businessman would like to add a new(ish) word to the vocabulary of Sapulpans, the nation and the world.
The word is: Vext. The word and the company it represents GetVext.com was partly conceived in Sapulpa and has a local address. Perhaps it’s biggest fan is in CEO and county resident Larry Favalora.
The company can tout the features of its’ product summed up with one sentence.
GetVext.com provides mobile phone users-subscribers with easy e-mail and text message access-composing (even on a drive behind the wheel of an auto) by voice alone using any cell phone in the United States.
It is a cell phone feature that Favalora strongly feels is both needed by the market as a stand alone product, and if implemented (used) by consumers will benefit American society as a whole, by eliminating the threat of cell phone texting and driving teens (and anybody else) while operating a motor vehicle.
“We really feel our system will elimate the dangers of texting and driving, especially among the young. The distraction the danger its in the news, some experts liken it to being as bad (driving) as alcohol intoxication.
“Teens are going to text in the car if they can. History shows us that prohibition doesn’t work. They can write as many laws as they wish (banning texting by drivers-increasing fines and penalties) but that won’t necessarily solve the problem and is probably foolish. Technology has caused the problem and we believe our technology (Vext) can solve the problem,” Favalora said.
The GetVext system is computer server based. The nuts and bolts of the system operate from a stand alone electronics company allied with GetVext.
About a minutes worth of quiet time will set up the system for the first time user with a one keypad press that speed dials the computerized server farm in Canada.
A few voice prompts later and the system is set-up and ready to convert spoken words into written text type and then send it to the proper destination.
A demonstration Wednesday in the Herald’s offices displayed a relative ease of set-up and moments later Favalora spoke into his cell phone and kazow-boom a text appeared on the Herald employee’s ordinary run of the mill mobile phone.
The software-system reproduced the company CEO’s words into text-type precisely.
“We identified a niche in the market in that most of the anti-texting technology available today is for smart-phone users. Smart phones are about 30-percent of the overall market. Our product will work with any cellphone,” he said.
“A big part of the philosophy of our company is not only to seek out small innovative products and companies, to make a profit but also to be charitable to society with a portion of the proceeds of profit,” Favalora said.
Fundraising schemes for churches, non profits, schools and sports teams is a marketers niche the company is pledging to exploit. So contact GetVext.com to get started- it's TOTALLY free to start for Non-Profit groups and generates recurring monthly income!
The entrepreneur readily admits with near certainty that the Oklahoma state legislature will at some future point, pass anti-texting while driving laws. Trendwise similar legislation has been and will be enacted by other states of the union.
“Part of our marketing is directed at kids and parents of kids. We have a program where we can get local schools involved in the safety aspect of it and as a fundraising tool. Our service costs justs $6.95 a month,” he said rather proudly.
“It would be great to go to a school assembly at Sapulpa High and showcase the safety aspect of our product and the benefit to the school itself as a fundraising tool,” Favalora said.
The company CEO is a an energetic salesman and brings an eastern seaboard accent and flair and he speaks almost as much with hand gestures as words.
Asked as to what brought a New York businessman to oil patch country. “I married a gal from Oklahoma, moved out here in the 80's with her and really liked the area and people. So I stayed. I looked around the community saw some things I thought should be addressed so I ran to be the mayor of Oilton and won the office serving in the 1990’s.
Always hands on, Favalora during his mayoral tenure he was unhappy with State law enforcement response in arresting the behavior of drug dealers who were brazenly doing their business almost in the wide open.
“I figured I was mayor and couldn’t get the response I needed, so I just hid a video camera in the bushes and recorded the transactions,” he said.
His non-traditional tactic apparently worked, State and County law enforcement apparently perked up their efforts and served his little community a bit better than before.
