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How to stop cold calls to your business

How do I stop cold calls and unsolicited sales calls?

 

Sales shield is a unique service that prevents companies from contacting your business and this is how we do
  1. We register you with the corporate telephone preference service
  2. We write to all known data mining companies and demand that you are removed from every database
  3. We provide customers with an alternative number to diver callers who ignore the law
  4. We log every call that comes through to you after you have opted out and take appropriately legal action against persistent rouge callers
  5. We provide customers with icons for websites that prevent future misuse
Although anybody can register with the corporate telephone preference service it is often the case that those individuals will still recieve cold calls as salespeople rarely check that you are on the database before they call.  This service deals with those kinds of callers.
The key with our service is the alternative diversion number.  This simple mobile phone number is connected to a computer that is able to record where the salesperson has called from.  When you receive a sales call you simple tell the salesperson politely that they need to call another number and speak with the manager.  You can give a name if you wish.  We leave that up to you ;-)  When the salesperson connects they are met with a warning that you are registered with the corporate telephone preference service and that his or her number has been logged.  Now this quickly frees up your phone line and you will not get another call from that company again.  To back this up we will follow up with a letter of warning and if a company is persistent then we take legal action.  You will experience a sudden drop in the level of calls you get and when they do come through you can quickly get the caller off the phone leaving you to get on with your day.
Is question is do you need to stop sales calls to your business?  Well the table below willshow you roughly how much it costs you annually to deal with these nuisance callers
Time spent dealing with calls on a daily basis Yearly based on 244 business days Cost per year based on a wage of £6.00 per hour
5 minuets 20 hours £120
10 minuets 41 hours £246
30 minuets 122 hours £732

 

This is excluding the amount of money you spend on shoddy marketing products that don’t bring you any benefit.

How many times have you been ripped off from cold callers?

The reason it is dificult to stop cold calls is due to the changes in the market.  Cold calling companies used to be part of larger well know organziations who had a duty to conduct themselves in a proffessional manor.  Smaller companies have begun to spring up selling certain products and services and they do not always follow the letter of the law.  To stop a cold call takes more than opting out.  It will all come down to wheather or not a cold caller even checks to see if you have opted out.  Data from marketing companies excludes you if you have registered your self with the CTPS but companies rarely use purchased data to call you since the invention of the internet.  Anybody with a product, a telephone and access to the interent can cold call you to sell a product or service.  By law they are supposed to check that you are not registered with the CTPS however they generaly do not.  They may even tell you that you have listed your number therefore it is not illegal to call you.  The law with regards to cold calling is sketchy at best.

Stop cold calls for good

It is almost impossible to stop these calls but you do not have to deal with them.  Sales shield has come up with a unique way to deal with this costly problem that will massively reduce the level of calls you get and eventually eliminate them.  We use the full extent of the law to swiftly deal with unwanted cold calls and help you to get back on with running your business.  Stop cold calls now.