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[Marie Walentuk Contribution Level: 1]

With all due respect to my fellow marketers, I would like oppinions on the use of autmated
marketing systems. To me, they are very annoying.

1. When prospects recieve them on a cell phone, they charged for information they did not request.
2. Often you have to listen to a long message in order to discover how to opt out.
3. Lately the opt out code is also the code to save a message. In that case, not only do you have to opt out, but you again have to listen to the message in order to remove it from your mailbox.
4. Often the same list seems to be purchased mulitple times, with the same message being sent to the same
prospect.

Why do marketers think this is a good thing?

Thank-you in advance for your feedback.

Marie
http://www.notjustanotherhomebusiness.com

[Greg Martin Contribution Level: 4]

In Australia we have something called a Do Not Register. You can log onto the site, put you home phone and cell phone numbers into it and then Telemarketers are banned from calling it.

We never get anything like that. Although I know people do if they aren't on that register.

[Tammy Cowell Contribution Level: 2]

The worst ones are those you sign up for information like a cd and they sell your information to a company that in turn charges you for being in some sort of club you never asked for. That has happened to us twice last year and never again will we sign up with out reading privacy contract.

[Peter Fuller Company: AdzZoo Contribution Level: 3]

I do not personally like receiving them, so I would never send them.

At least with my phone company I just have to hit 7 twice and they are gone.

Some of them are actually quite tricky and I am not sure if they are going directly to voice mail or they can sense voice mail and send a separate message. They usually start with "Sorry I missed you blah blah blah"

[Art Lovell Contribution Level: 3]

I get them too, but I also get these things that interrupt tv a shows I like to watch.

[Peter Fuller Company: AdzZoo Contribution Level: 3]

I get them too, but I also get these things that interrupt tv a shows I like to watch.

True, but those interruptions supposedly are bringing you entertainment (value)

No one asked me if it was ok to send me robo calls.

[Ilka Flood Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 4]

Marie,

I do get messages like that on my home phone and they are quite annoying to say the least. What ever happened to the "Do not call" list?

Quite honestly, I do not do business with people I don't know, like or trust. How can I get to know you if you just pitch your opp and then hang up on me? Not a good way to build that all-important relationship.

Just my 2 cents

[Art Lovell Contribution Level: 3]

Numbers..Volume Volume Volume. And there's commericals on the my online video streaming too. Dang!

[Marie Walentuk Contribution Level: 1]

I heard they have just been made illegal....maybe that is why I have not been receiving them anymore

[Gwendolyn Davis Contribution Level: 1]

Back in the day, a time before we became the OPT-IN world., automation was a great way for companies to spread the word....

Now, we have the DNC list., And people scream if you call them and they are on it... Yes, I have a list that I still call people.... This is first hand knowledge... I wonder about them.... but I do understand..

Most of modern telephone devices are compliant and scrubbed against the DNC list., but people have to realize that it's not an over night fix.... The Automatics....

The only thing that you have to do is sign up for a magazine or put your name on any paper, you will get called by someone... List selling is big business...

I want my name on all the list.... Why, so I can call them back.... and talk to them..

It has brought to me some great sales people for my business.... I don't look at it as an annoyance but an opportunity to connect with someone who dialed my number.....