Auto Dialers, the unique way to increase telemarketing results

With rapid expansion of technology in last century, and continuous advancement and research has proved telecommunication a very viable tool to be used in every area of civilization. No doubt, due to its prompt reach and message delivering capacity, it is used in marketing, medicine, entertainment, education and almost in every area of life.

In any business, it is the good marketing that ultimately bears fruit, whatever the product is and how good it may be, it is the job of marketer to tell about the quality and features of the product and convince one to buy it.

Now days when direct marketing is quite expensive deal when your guy needs to move from offices to offices and market place telling people about product and services while consuming valuable time and money, it is the telemarketing that eases task to a larger amount.

Telemarketing that is done on telephone-where a person is informed about the features of a product and persuaded to buy a commodity or service has limitations too. Normally in a telemarketing campaign a person faces many problems like: dead phones, busy lines, answering machines, etc. All these problems when summoned up results only in waste of manpower as well as time and money.

Auto dialers that are easily available at any telecommunication devices vendor shop give an apt solution to all the calling related problems.

Standalone Automatic Dialers that you can get form any shops are unique as they can deliver messages without the help of call center agents. Auto dialer can leave a message on Answering Machines, or play a different message for live answers. Optionally the called party may press a key and be transferred to a telemarketing agent.

Auto dialers are also featured to work for highly customized campaigns within any ODBC-compliant database or CRM applications like Goldmine?, ACT? and many other third party database applications for the best productivity results.

Auto dialers are easy to use provided with familiar technology saves one's time in "adapting" to new methods of storing, compiling, and retrieving data and call results. Automatic Dialer in the market available in the market to be enabling with different technologies primarily on Microsoft? based software standards to help you to achieve the fastest and most accurate call detection in the industry. In this way Auto dialers give answer to all your telemarketing related problems. In order to get more information about auto dialers visit www.yoursautodialer.com where you can get valuable information about auto dialers and related devices.

David is an internet marketer specializing in Internet Marketing

The Auto-Dialer Virus Strikes Again

 

I've Been Infected By An Auto-Dialer Virus
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The Auto Dialer Virus Strikes Again - Here at Defending The Net, we receive hundreds of e-mails daily regarding various computer security issues. Because we receive so many e-mails and requests for information, we typically write an article that provides the answer. However, from time to time, we receive requests that seem important, or critical in nature, and do our best to try and help.

On October 4th, we received an e-mail from a visitor we felt compelled to assist. This person appeared to have a home computer infected with the Auto-Dialer virus, a malicious piece of Malware that can cost you a tremendous amount of time, and more importantly, money.

An Unwelcome Letter From a Long Distance Carrier
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Unfortunate results of the auto dialer virus - Our visitor received a letter from a well known long distance carrier indicating they had blocked all long distance calls from their telephone number, the reason; there were hundreds of phone calls to 1-900 numbers with fees in excess of $1,500. Our visitor had contacted his internet provider, explained to them what was going on, and the Internet provider directed them to and article located here at Defending The Net on auto-dialers.

The long distance carrier who contacted him was not even his provider, they represented the company with the 1-900 number. He contacted the long distance provider and explained to them that he had no idea what was going on and that he has never dialed a 1-900 number. They explained that there was nothing they could do for him and they were going to turn over the charges to his local service provider for collection.

As you can imagine, this was a very strange and stressful time. The fact of the matter is, these auto-dialers can be quite stealthy, masking themselves as legitimate software, or installing themselves in a way that keeps you unaware it has infected your system. These nefarious pieces of software can even re-program your modem to turn off the speaker so you are unaware that it is making unauthorized calls. I cannot stress how dangerous and how much of a negative impact something like this can have on your computer, and your checkbook.

How Do I Protect Myself
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One thing you must always be aware of is what type of sites you are visiting. If the sites you visit have tons of pop-up's and banners, some of which may be less than moral / ethical, you can bet there is a high chance of getting infected with something. There are other things you should keep in mind or do on a routine basis:

1) Make sure you have anti-virus software installed and keep the virus signatures up to date. Out of date virus signatures are a major cause of computer infection;

2) Install spyware detection software, keep it up to date, and run it regularly. I run mine at least twice a day. Some of these software packages have real-time protection similar to anti-virus software;

3) If you now have high-speed internet access, like cable or DSL service, and you no longer need the internal modem for faxes or anything else, remove the phone cable from the modem or remove the modem from the computer altogether. Many people leave these devices connected and are at risk for auto-dialer impact; And,

4) If you are on a site that has a lot of pop-ups do not just click ok when they present themselves. You may be agreeing to something that can cause you problems.

Conclusion
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If you think you have become infected with an Auto-Dialer, or receive a letter from a long distance carrier stating you owe them money for 1-900 or like calls, contact your telephone service provider right away. Also, disconnect your modem to make sure no additional calls can be placed and run your anti-virus / spyware detection software to try and locate the problem. If you can't locate the malicious software, you will need to back up all your data and reinstall your computers operating system. This is the only "real" way to feel confident you have eradicated the Auto-Dialer that infected your computer.

You may reprint or publish this article free of charge as long as the bylines are included.

Darren Miller is an Information Security Consultant with over sixteen years experience. He has written many technology & security articles, some of which have been published in nationally circulated magazines & periodicals. If you would like to contact Darren you can e-mail him at Darren.Miller@ParaLogic.Net. If you would like to know more about computer security and auto-dialer virus please visit us at http://www.defendingthenet.com