FE Facebook Leads

[shonceman]

We have access to some pretty good telemarketed leads. The problem is lack of data. In the area I Like to work, it was a struggle to get 20 out of the 30 leads I ordered. But we have agents in other parts of the country who are using those leads as there primary if not only source.

Shortly after becoming independent, I bought a robocall computer (legal at the time). At first it was generating as many as 5 leads per day per line. After a couple of years it had dwindled down to 1 lead per day per line. I was also getting a fair number of repeat responders. Then they made it illegal so I quit using it. I attribute the diminished return to more people getting on the DNC list, and more than that doing away with their landline. I fully complied with the law and never dialed anyone on DNC or cell phones.

I've thought about using telemarketer leads (like those from @Glen Shelton Lead Heroes), but I'm concerned that they might be reaching only a small percentage of people (the same small percentage that every other "clean" telemarketer is calling), and that to generate enough leads we'd have to cast a somewhat wider net over a larger area than I normally work.

 

[DonP]

You used the CBC-7000.That was in the 1980's . It was company out of Indiana i believe.It had the old cassette tape in it to record the answers . I had one and ran it 8 hrs a day. I believe it cost like $1700. Many of the answers were bs and you had to listen to them all. It became illegal because the machine called all #'s in preconfigured row.So it would call Emergency #'s like fire and police stations. And when they tried to hang up it would stay on the line not allowing emergency calls to come in. Like you would put 555-2000 thru 555-8000 and it would call all #"s.

 

[goillini52]

Shortly after becoming independent, I bought a robocall computer (legal at the time).

Are you talking about an auto dialer? I used one in the late 80s early 90s. Best leads I ever had, that I didn't telemarket myself.

 

[goillini52]

You used the CBC-7000.That was in the 1980's . It was company out of Indiana i believe.It had the old cassette tape in it to record the answers . I had one and ran it 8 hrs a day. I believe it cost like $1700. Many of the answers were bs and you had to listen to them all. It became illegal because the machine called all #'s in preconfigured row.So it would call Emergency #'s like fire and police stations. And when they tried to hang up it would stay on the line not allowing emergency calls to come in. Like you would put 555-2000 thru 555-8000 and it would call all #"s.

I got ahold of a fire department once and when I was listening to the recording of the guy scolding me and saying not to call an emergency #, I kept thinking, "why not just hang up the phone?" I was hoping I didn't get ahold of the States Attorney's office.

 

[Newby]

We have access to some pretty good telemarketed leads. The problem is lack of data. In the area I Like to work, it was a struggle to get 20 out of the 30 leads I ordered. But we have agents in other parts of the country who are using those leads as there primary if not only source.

We probably use the same place. It's like the last one with American telemarketers.

But I still say in this day and age no One with any sense responds to random telemarketers. Not like 10 years ago.

 

[shonceman]

You used the CBC-7000.That was in the 1980's . It was company out of Indiana i believe.It had the old cassette tape in it to record the answers . I had one and ran it 8 hrs a day. I believe it cost like $1700. Many of the answers were bs and you had to listen to them all. It became illegal because the machine called all #'s in preconfigured row.So it would call Emergency #'s like fire and police stations. And when they tried to hang up it would stay on the line not allowing emergency calls to come in. Like you would put 555-2000 thru 555-8000 and it would call all #"s.

Those did become illegal because of the issues you cited. Auto dialed "robocalls" were reintroduced after those problems were addressed with newer technology, which mine was. I bought it in early 2006. It ran through telephony software on a Windows based computer. It didn't use sequential dialing (which was indeed illegal). I used telemarketing lists in CSV format that you loaded into a "campaign" file. The recordings were digital WAV files, which were easily converted to MP3. It gave a report containing anybody that pressed "1". Since the list had name and address as well, I could still doorknock them even if they didn't leave their info on the recording. The software also filtered out numbers on the DNC list, and you could add numbers to an internal dnc list, which I always did when someone asked. There really isn't any good reason, IMO, why these should not still be legal as long as the caller is TSR compliant, which I always was. Alas, they haven't been legal in 10 years now, so I haven't used mine since then, but I kept it just in case! Haha!

Are you talking about an auto dialer? I used one in the late 80s early 90s. Best leads I ever had, that I didn't telemarket myself.

Like I said above, computer based autodialer. More sophisticated tech than the earlier stand alone dialers.
I really built my agency from those leads initially. I ran that machine for 3 years straight every day but Sunday. By the time they outlawed it, I had a pretty good sized book of business to work from.

 

[goillini52]

We probably use the same place. It's like the last one with American telemarketers.

But I still say in this day and age no One with any sense responds to random telemarketers. Not like 10 years ago.

Less than half of the households have landlines now and I'm sure that over 80% of the ones that do are on the DNC list. That doesn't leave many #s to call. Many of the ones that you can call won't answer if they don't recognize your # (because they're afraid it's the recorded Chinese message). The one's that do answer are lonely and need somebody to talk to....or they can't speak English.

Telemarketing is going in the same direction as the pay phone. Not a good time to be a telemarketer.

DOOR KNOCKING IS COMING BACK!!!

 

[shonceman]

Less than half of the households have landlines now and I'm sure that over 80% of the ones that do are on the DNC list. That doesn't leave many #s to call. Many of the ones that you can call won't answer if they don't recognize your # (because they're afraid it the recorded Chinese message). The one's that do answer are lonely and need somebody to talk to....or they can't speak English.

Telemarketing is going in the same direction as the pay phone. Not a good time to be a telemarketer.

DOOR KNOCKING IS COMING BACK!!!

Not sure why, but when I read your post I started singing "I'm a Door Knocker" to this old tune:

 

[goillini52]

Not sure why, but when I read your post I started singing "I'm a Door Knocker" to this old tune:

That's an oldie. Terrible job of lip syncing. A couple of times I thought I was watching an old Japanese movie.

 

[goillini52]

Not sure why, but when I read your post I started singing "I'm a Door Knocker" to this old tune:

If they won't answer the door, try this.