3 Ways to Reduce Telemarketer Calls to Your Home
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
The Baby Sleep Solution Audio Program
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