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How Pathetic Can Telemarketing Get?

How Pathetic Can Telemarketing Get?Just like everything else in this world...You can hang up... you can delete the email.. you can ignore it.It looks like it might be political.I looked the number up at http://whocalled.us/lookup/8668493243 and a lot of people seem to be complaining about it being political calls.RE: How...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, telemarketing, Telemarketing Get, Pathetic

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

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Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites

It`s About Time!they should block and prosecute those sites that send and try to install virus/spyware throught peoples computers.they should loose their internet connection right way,and have their name/info somewhere in a database, that a ISP can check before they can sign up for a internet service.DOING that i`m sure...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), INTERNET, Internet Service Provider, fraud site, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

So you're going to sell software or work a trade show booth...

...it's time to get it right! I get pitched software 24/7. Along the way, I hear and see some pretty amazing things but too often I get my ear bent for way too long by folks who can’t get to the point. Why? Because these pitchmen and...

Tags: Software, Trade Show, Empathy, Sales Strategy, Telemarketing, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Opt Me Out! The United States Postal Service Needs an Overhaul

The volume of physical spam I receive, aka junk mail, is now becoming an absolutely intolerable situation. Nothing less than a complete overhaul of the entire US Postal Service is in order. My friend and colleague David Strom, over at his site Strominator.com,...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Web Site Development, Cyberthreats, Web Technology, Spam, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?

Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?It's fastI tried and it's damn fast! Too much faster than the dying Live search.Try this query...Enter "Map of New York" or pretty much anywhere.Checkout the sponsored sites ;-)RE: Bing is live: Nice first impression; Will Bing boost Cashback?Bing spices up...

Tags: Channel management, Web site development, SEARCH, Bing, Google Inc., CashBack, Nice first impression

Discussion threads 2009-06-01

Protect yourself from vishing attacks

Protect yourself from vishing attacksIf I have to call Bank of America...I will just go to Bank of America and tell them that I'm hearing impaired and get my problem solved from there.Will that minimize vishing attacks if I go to Bank of America, provided if the representitives does not...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, car, phone, attack, Bank of America Corp., credit card

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?

Web 2.0 Expo: the end of the online search driven era?In the Web 2.0, search is flawedI've been saying for a while that now we have Web 2.0, the collaborative version of the web, search is flawed.Who wanst 292,000,000 pages of content in repose to a simple query when sites...

Tags: SEARCH, Channel management, Ian Hendry, Web 2.0, Internet search, Web

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Brand spanking new Excel 0-day being exploited in the wild

Brand spanking new Excel 0-day being exploited in the wildOPEN OFFICE ?Doubt the bug would bother OPEN OFFICE .. you may be able to check out the file by opening it with OO first.RE: Brand spanking new Excel 0-day being exploited in the wildI don't really see this exploit going...

Tags: OpenOffice, Branding, Microsoft Office, E-mail, Brand Spanking, new Excel 0-day, Excel 0-day, Microsoft Excel, brand

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

News to know: Macs on sale, YouTube goes wide, Twitter, Cisco

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: A rare occurrence: Macs on sale Jason D. O'Grady: Apple retail stores to match prices Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple prepares for Black Friday blow-out! ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Apple Macintosh, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Cisco Systems Inc., Twitter, Telemarketing, AJAX, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Digital Media, Marketing, Marketing Research, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-26

How Pathetic Can Telemarketing Get?

Your faithful scribe just received this voice message when he picked up his home phone: "Sorry to disturb you. This message was intended to be received by an answering machine." Then, the connection was cut. Calling back the number (1-866-849-3243) gets...

Tags: Caller, Telemarketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Marketing Research, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Using mail for phishing

The standard phishing scams still catch enough people to justify the small costs and low risks involved - but there's a better way. From the bad guy's perspective traditional phishing has costs and benefits. On the cost side there's a few hundred dollars to get a million...

Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?

Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?RE: Is Snopes pushing Adware? Urban legend or fact?Pop-ups are SO last year. Looks like I'm headed to www.truthorfiction.com from now on.Pop up blockerHence why I use a pop up blocker, and No script ^_^. Kinda of pitiful on...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, E-mail, SECURITY, Snopes, adware, Urban Legend

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?

Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?You tell me and we'll both know."The question is, what will be that next evolutionary step that resets things so that we have the final word on such sensitive information."You tell me and we'll both know.It's the golden rule...Those...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, henhouse, Chartered, FTC, fox, telemarketing, ZIP code

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Why metered Internet is a really bad idea

Why metered Internet is a really bad ideaONLY if I could effectively block ...."Metered"service would make me pay TWICE for all the adds ZDnetinserts in each page. Once to access the internet and again topay for the gigabytes of data I would be forced to download toread ANYTHING!If ZDNet,...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Network technology, Broadband Internet, Internet, Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Cox

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Technology Shakedown #9: Why AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are to blame for spam

Technology Shakedown #9: Why AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are to blame for spamThis is why challenge response systems are growing in popularityi hate them.. cause i have to respond.. but they cut spam by 80%Graylisting is another useful technology.. The biggest drawbacks of both.. delayed email.I agree an...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., spam, Google Inc., Mozilla Thunderbird, America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

Tragedy: Commercial developer reports 35% of coding time spent on IE/FireFox incompatibilities

Asynchronous Javascript and XML programming -- otherwise known as AJAX -- may be bringing an entire new level of interactivity to today's Web applications often bringing otherwise lifeless user interfaces to life. But it's also apparently wreaking havoc on developer productivity. While at the Enterprise 2.0 conference today, I...

Tags: Web technology, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban

Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax banThe internet is way to complicated for a tax. Besides we are already taxedHow so you ask? Hosting providers pay taxes on power, water, personell. We pay taxes when we buy a PC, when we turn it on and it...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Internet access, Internet, tax

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

List brokers welcome thieves who target elderly

Web-savvy scam artists are lurking everywhere on the net, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable, reports the International Herald Tribune. Posing as government and insurance workers simply updating their files, shysters telephone World War II vets, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and ask for their bank account...

Tags: Law enforcement

Blog posts 2007-05-22

SAP aims A1S on demand solution for 2008

SAPs been working three years on developing a new business application suite and business model. Code-named A1S, the suite is aimed at the lower end of the mid-sized company segment, which is comprised of about 1 million companies. Its part of SAPs goal to grow from 39,000 customers to 100,000...

Tags: SAP, General, ERP

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Is Boost Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could be

Is Boost Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could beDo-Not-Call listsIn Wisconsin, as in many other states, there are also STATE do not call lists, and it is ILLEGAL at least here to call. I am on the Federal as well as the State DNC lists, so...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Advertising & Promotion, Boost Mobile, phone, telemarketing

Discussion threads 2007-01-04