Just about all of us have had the “non-pleasure” of answering our office phone and getting one of those highly annoying Robo Phone Calls! I don’t know anyone who does not prefer to put an end to them. If you are one of them here is a strategy that I found works to at least keep them to a minimum.
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order to win the battle against incoming Robo Phone Calls to your office I think it is wise to take them on in the same way one might try to (mostly) rid ones yard of Dandelions — take it one day at a time and commit yourself to the battle over a long period of time!
Step 1. Let the call play: Sure in the short term it’s a pain the ___ but it is necessary.
Step 2. NEVER purchase anything from one of these calls!
On the rare chance that product or service is legit once you have made one purchase your company’s name and phone will spread throughout the world like a case of Athlete’s’ Foot on a college basketball team!
Step 3. Wait for the opt out feature. – and hit that selection.
Step 3A: If there is no opt out feature..
(something that should be rare) Go ahead and select the option that takes you to a live person. When you reach one firmly but politely (even annoying people are still fellow human beings) tell them to remove your office phone number from their list AND (this is important) tell them they do not have your permission to share your office phone number with others
Step 4: Do this on every RoboCall you get.
On average I have found the strategy takes about 6 months to really reduce the volume of these calls.
If you follow these steps I think you will find that in the same way you can claim victory if you only get to the point where you have only the “occasional Dandelion” in your yard – If you can get your company’s incoming Robo Phone Calls down to 2 calls or less per week you claim victory!!! That said, like Dandelions in your yard — you are never going to completely get rid of them!