[asterisk-biz] best solution for conducting phone advertising

[Steve Totaro]

Telemarketing, while annoying (to me) is a very big piece of the
economy.  Providing you are on the DNC and the telemarketer is
scrubbing their lists and have a an efficient "Opt-Out" option, it is
not SPAM.

If telemarketing was totally banned, MANY business (who pay corporate
tax, employ people, are a big part of the economy) would go out of
business.  A ripple effect would be seen almost immediately throughout
the economy, since most economies are tied to the US (although many
try to reject that fact) it would not be a simple be a US problem.

If you don't want telemarketing calls, get your name on the DNC and
keep it up to date.  Tell them to remove you from lists.  Keep logs.
Do not put your real number on websites gathering info and make your
number unlisted.

It is rare these days that I get a telemarketing call and they do
honor the Opt-Out option.  The only one that I am logging and will
report are continual telemarketing from "Extended Vehicle Warranty"
company who do not actually allow you to opt-out and but do not
actually do it, call my cell phone everyday.  I will file a complaint
if I get one more call.

Anyways, telemarketing done right is fine, although annoying to a
great many people.  And again, done right, one request to be removed
from a list should end that particular company from calling again.  If
they persist, they may be find a significant amoun

Finally, the OP never qualified ttif 5

Thanks,
Steve T

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Nitzan Kon <nk3569 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> "phone advertising"... you mean, phone SPAM?
>
>
> --- On Sat, 7/19/08, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [asterisk-biz] best solution for conducting phone advertising
>> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 11:11 AM
>> Hi,
>> I have a customer that has a database of phone numbers. We
>> are looking
>> to create a phone campaign with the following specs
>>
>> 1- System must have a database for call control and
>> reporting. Better
>> if it is all web based.
>> 2- Phone numbers will be loaded to system from excel or
>> CSV. System
>> must allow to specify range of numbers.
>> 3- System will call phone numbers from database and detect
>> if it is
>> fax, answer machine (best effort) or a human.
>> 4- When human, system will play a pre-recorded (spanish)
>> message (20
>> to 30 seconds).
>> 5- At the end of the message, the system must offer the
>> option
>> (configurable) to the caller to leave a message in response
>> to the
>> prerecorded message that was played.
>> 6- Call control must be reported as hangup by callee BEFORE
>> message
>> was totally played, hangup by callee AFTER message was
>> totally played,
>> line busy, fax, answer machine, no answer,etc.
>> 7- Realtime status report on dialing campaigns.
>> 8- Ability to configure what to do in case phone is fax,no
>> answer,
>> machine,etc. (example, no answer retry in two hours drop
>> after five
>> days)
>> 9-multi campaign
>> 10- ability to define call schedules (9am to 5pm, mon-fri)
>> 11- ability to define duration of each campaign (example, 5
>> days then
>> do not dial anymore)
>> 12- different statistics per campaign (please include web
>> link if
>> possible to see features)
>> 13- support options form vendor
>>
>> We use Asterisk with CentOS and have access to sangoma
>> cards(FXO and
>> E1). Other platforms can be considered.
>> I guess this is called predictive dialing, but we are not
>> going to
>> have agents waiting for calls. we just want to play
>> prerecorded
>> messages.
>> All messages are in spanish so if there is any system
>> option that the
>> caller must/may hear, it must have the option to be a
>> spanish voice or
>> a prerecorded system message in spanish.
>>
>> We provide all the spanish messages.
>>
>> you can reply here or to eaperezh (*at) gmail DOT com
>> (mangled to
>> avoid spam email harvesting)
>> Please provide email and phone number.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>> Erick
>>
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