telemarketing

FYI in cased you missed it - This is a story about the world of telemarketing, not startups.

If you treat it like boiler room telemarketing grabass then you'll end up with a company to match those ideals.

On the speech front, there is now an automated telemarketing agent which is about as smart as most script-driven human telemarketers.

And then on top of that, there are countless telemarketing calls from overseas.

I even started getting telemarketing calls from random people asking me to invest in their property funds.

Also, combining names and locations with other data from third parties gives some pretty awesome postal mail/email/telemarketing lists for companies in this space.

I want to hear what kind of bizarre reality you live in where telemarketing is useful.

Offshore telemarketing - no more fake localized names and accents, just hire a person who understands spoken english and install the MidwestFemale 3.68 module.

This is a pity, because if users could easily share telemarketing blocklists and so on you could shut down abusive calling industries very very easily.

I'm guessing you could implement a spam filter, so Harassment/telemarketing wouldn't be a problem.

I also feel like your discounting the power of developing a social relationship (as an awareness tool) by likening it to telemarketing.

The difference between get a telemarketing call at dinner time and seeing a promoted post on Facebook is the consumer psychology before the touch point is made, i.e.

Telemarketing may not be useful, but now the goalpost seems to have moved from "prove most jobs are actually useful" to "prove no jobs of questionable utility exist"

I don't know how polls are conducted over in Scotland but around here they are either annoying (like telemarketing calls), sometimes worded to encourage an outcome "Dihydrogen monoxide is the top ingredient in your tap water.

Telemarketing is useful in some way to the person who employs the telemarketer.

Telemarketing is basically hurting members of your own.