Consequences Of Bad Cell Phone Telemarketing Practices
Outbound telemarketing companies beware! If your business regularly uses telemarketing calls that go to cellular phones, it is necessary that you know rules of cell phone telemarketing. Mainly, you must consider the fact that cell phone operators charge for incoming calls. People will not be very receptive to you cold calling about your product or service. Cell phone telemarketing calls can lead to some serious trouble for your business. This was not the case in the beginning of the telemarketing era. Telemarketing companies started to follow bad practices and the consumers complained that cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies. Authorities at the FTC and FCC realized that cell phone telemarketing is fast becoming a public nuisance. They decided to make some rules to the game. This brought about the National Do Not Call registry.
The first thing they did was to impose a ban on unsolicited telemarketing calls on cell phones and making it a law. This gave way to the national do not call list. The 'National do not call' registry is a special database where people can register their number and the telemarketing companies are not allowed to do telemarketing cell phones to these numbers. If you follow bad telemarketing practices, the consumer can register his number on the database from the website www.donotcall.gov. He can call 1-888-382-1222 and notify them that cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and they would like to register for the service. All he needs to do is call from the number that he wants to be added to the national do not call registry. You would have to remove his registered number from the telemarketing list for cell phone telemarketing. Please note that while this rule is applicable to the commercial telemarketing companies. Registered charities and political organizations can still use outbound telemarketing services to call cell phones for donations. Companies that have a business relationship with the person prior to his registration with the database for cell phone telemarketing can also call him. The other consequence is that the consumer would surrender his present number and get a new number. He would pay a certain amount of money to the cell phone operator. Upon receipt of the money, the telephone service provider shall remove his number from all telephone directories. The new cell phone number can not be accessible from printed directory nor from telephonic directory inquiry and they remove the number from online directory as well. Naturally the old number that he surrendered becomes a waste as well. If cell phone telemarketing gets to the nerves of consumer, they can have you fined or even drag you to the court of law. This might turn into a huge price tag. It is recommended to follow good telemarketing policies. |
