Un-Spam Your Business
Is your business a target for cold calls, pranksters and general harassment? Is the phone company offering next to no support on this issue, leaving you feeling helpless to do anything? Do not fear; there are some things you can do to help mitigate the problem. Although not a full proof solution, these helpful tips should help to alleviate the pain caused by hecklers and spammers, leaving you more time to focus on the important things, such as running a business.
Here are a few helpful tips to mitigate the effects of spammers and pranksters to help you get your focus back on business, they worked for the people I have talked to and they should help for you. For starters, get yourself an unlisted number, also known as a private number. This should stop cold calls and telemarketers in their tracks as they will not be able to grab your number out of the public phone listings, so say goodbye to those annoying sales calls! Another helpful tip, although a risky one for business exposure, is to remove your listing in the business directory if you are listed in there. This can be risky if you do not already have a large customer base, but if you do, this will also help stop telemarketers and pranksters, and can be a huge relief.
Another good solution is to get a phone that supports caller ID. This way you can see the numbers, and in some cases the names, of people who are calling up. After you have this system in place, you can start to take notes of the troublesome numbers and simply ignore them or hang up straight away next time they call. Or if your phone supports is you can set it to automatically terminate those callers. After a while, they should get the message and stop calling you up. Or if it is a cold calling system, it will probably stop attempting your number permanently due to the constant failed call attempts.
So if you have had enough of pesky telemarketers trying to sell you a new phone plan, cold calls informing you of great new deals, or pranksters wasting your staff’s time, then I highly recommend you implement at least one of my suggestions above. Be it removing your number from the business directory, implementing caller ID or getting yourself an unlisted number, you should notice a near immediate reduction in the number of these pointless phone calls. So stop the hassle today and improve your businesses time and efficiency by ending these annoyances and take on my suggestions today.