Every one of us has faced the scourge of telemarketers. You’re fast asleep early on a Friday morning, when the phone rings. You answer it thinking it might be a family member in trouble, only to hear a robotic version of the latest political candidate urging you to “come to the polls next Tuesday.” Exasperated, you slam down the phone.While laws exist to protect consumers from unwanted calls, millions of Americans still receive these calls, sometimes several times a day. Technological advances mean that phone solicitors are more able than ever to reach you when you least expect it.Recent regulatory changes also raise the possibility that telemarketers may soon be able to reach consumers on their cellphones. All a company must do is prove some conceivable prior business relationship with a consumer to be permitted to place these calls, interrupting important business meetings and quiet time with the family.Fortunately, there do exist a few things the average person can do to quiet the ringing of the telephone. Here are three of the best ways to eliminate telemarketers from your life.1. Sign up for the federal do-not-call list. Surprisingly, fewer than 25 percent of American households have taken the time to sign up for this list. While it is by no means perfect, the list does decrease the average home’s telemarketer traffic by 70 to 90 percent. Unfortunately, however, the law does allow political candidates and non-profits to call those on the list. The same goes for companies which can claim some sort of prior business relationship with a consumer. Still, signing up for the list is quick and easy. It can be done at the Federal Trade Commission’s website, reachable by a quick Internet search.2. Get rid of your land-line phone. More and more consumers are choosing to go “completely cellular” for their telephony needs. Since cellphones remain largely off-limits to phone solicitors (though this may be changing), consumers can reduce their exposure to sales calls by simply unplugging from the land-line. Number portability means it’s now even possible to port your land-line phone number over to a cellphone. Though, this might mean you still receive solicitor calls on it.3. Use a web-based tool combined with Caller ID. There are now several websites which track telemarketers in real-time based on their phone numbers. These user-generated lists are extremely effective, blocking over 97 percent of telemarketers according to some estimates. One site, PhoneSpamFilter.com even offers software to automate the process of checking whether a phone number is a solicitor. All a consumer needs to do is install the software on a PC and plug that PC’s modem into the phone line. It then automatically hangs up on known solicitors.Telephone marketing is with us to stay, but there do exist things consumers can do to protect themselves against this nuisance. Don’t let yourself be a victim of these solicitors. Take action to protect yourself.
Tyler Stanford works in the Anti-Spam industry, with particular focus on telephony. He serves as a consultant to several companies, including PhoneSpamFilter.com.
Filed under telemarketing lists by Larry.
A mortgage telemarketing list contains information on individuals with credit history, providing your business with many potential sales leads. In recent times, the use of the mortgage telemarketing list has increased, especially during the post Sept 2001 period where interest rates were at its lowest. To understand the popularity of the mortgage telemarketing list as a marketing instrument, it is important for us to examine the benefits of using a mortgage telemarketing list. We provide you with 3 effective ways to use a mortgage telemarketing list.
For one, a mortgage telemarketing list allows exposure to a greater potential client base. With vital information such as contact numbers, terms of loan and interest rates, financial companies would be in a better position to promote their financial products in accordance to the needs of their sales leads. For example, this could take the form of a refinancing package at lower interest rates. Statistics have shown that in general people are more inclined to take up loans when approached via the telephone, as opposed to stumbling onto similar loans via the internet. This could be due to the very fact that queries on loans via the telephone tend to be answered faster as compared to those over the internet. This in turn further underlines the effectiveness with which a mortgage telemarketing list generates sales.
Likewise, a mortgage telemarketing list would provide similar opportunities to individuals outside the financial business. Business owners in the field of insurance for instance, would be able to make use of information within a mortgage telemarketing list to assess the market demand for various home insurance products. New products would be created in this process while existing ones will be refined to suit the needs of the market. Agents would then be able to make use of telemarketing methods to promote the home insurance product that best suit the demands of the market. In short, a mortgage telemarketing list would allow these companies to tailor their products to suit the needs of the market better as they expand their scope of sales leads.
Last of all, a mortgage telemarketing list can be used by government agencies or private research institutions in the field of data collection and surveys. While meant as a telemarketing list, a mortgage telemarketing list can be used to collect information and feedback regarding various issues pertaining to mortgage loans. This would include the level of interest rate and duration of the loan. In turn, this would allow government agencies to have a clearer view on the effects of key economic indicators.
Clearly, there are many ways how you can use a mortgage telemarketing list effectively. In any case, the three methods listed above in this article are by no means exhaustive. What is most important is the ability to creatively make use of the information provided in a mortgage telemarketing list to your advantage. Also, it is important to acquire such a list from a reputable listing company that provides constant updates to its informational database. This would ensure the relevance of your list over time.
Filed under telemarketing lists by Larry.
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Title: Five ways to build your e-mail house list.(Marketing)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: The Newsletter on Newsletters (Newsletter)
Date: March 5, 2009
Publisher: The Newsletter on Newsletters LLC
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Five ways to build your e-mail house list.: An article from: The Newsletter on Newsletters
Filed under Email List marketing by Larry.