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National Do Not Call Registry

Are You Getting Telemarketing Calls You Don’t Want?

Here’s How to Stop Them

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched the National Do Not Call Registry to give Americans a choice about getting telemarketing calls at home. According to a recent Harris Interactive poll,92 percent of people who reported placing a number on the registry said they are receiving fewer calls; a total of 78 percent said they’re getting “far fewer calls” or none at all.

If you think you put your number on the National Do Not Call Registry, and you’re still getting telemarketing sales calls, the Federal Trade Commission recommends that you:

• Check to see that your number is on the registry. You can verify that your number is on the registry two ways: online at DONOTCALL.GOV (click on “Verify A Registration”), or by calling 1-888-382-1222 (TTY 1-866-290-4236) from the phone number you wish to verify. Follow the prompts.
  You also can add your number to the registry using the same Web site or phone number (call from the number you want to register). If you register online, you will receive an email from donotcall.gov as part of the confirmation process. You will need to click on the link in this email within 72 hours after you receive it. If you don’t click on the link in the email, the number you tried to register will not be added to the registry, and telemarketers may continue to call.
• Understand that some calls are not covered. Once your number has been on the registry for 31 days, most telemarketing calls will stop. However, you still may get:
  • calls from — or on behalf of — political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors;
  • calls from companies with whom you have an existing business relationship. A company may call you for 18 months after you make a purchase or three months after you submit an inquiry or application;
  • calls from companies you’ve given permission to call.
• File a complaint. If your number has been on the registry for at least 31 days, and a telemarketer calls, complain to the FTC. Visit DONOTCALL.GOV or call 1-888-382-1222 (TTY1-866-290-4236). You’ll need to provide the date of the call and the phone number or name of the company that called you.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Internet Ethics

Success Strategies Online

Internet Marketing Success Strategies = 1000 Failures - No, Just Ways Applied Solutions That Would Not Work

As I recall once reading about Thomas Edison in his successful attempts to create a light bulb and his subsequent successful failures, he did not look at them as failures but ways they would not work successfully.

Thomas Edison, who conducted more than a thousand experiments on filaments before he produced a practical light bulb, was once asked, “How did you keep going after you had failed more than a thousand times?” Edison replied, “I did not fail a thousand times; I learned a thousand ways that didn’t work.”

The Importance of Research in Writing

Writing Involves 90% Research Time And 10% Writing Time

I read someplace that writing an article is a relatively small portion of the total time involved, compared to the research time required to have a complete and thorough knowledge of the subject matter.

This holds true even when the subject matter is well known, but citations and references are required and need to be found, verified, and documented online.

Hopefully this Tumblr Web blog will help in that endeavor to be an area for all types of Internet marketing, online advertising, sales strategies, Web branding, ethics, laws and legal issues, ecommerce, ebusiness, and technology information for anyone that wishes to come here and read.

While it will be open, the main purpose will be for ongoing research into the various online issues related to the Internet and how those issues will be affecting businesses on the World Wide Web. It will also be a place to have some short references to other things that are happening in my Web world today.

Professional Web Services and our Online Research Assistant welcomes you, the reader, into a world filled with information. Information flowing continuously and in a constant state of change. Staying up with that change will continue to become more of a challenge as our time is divided by hundreds if not thousands of ideas and topics.

This Tumblr blog/website is intended to help sort out some of those ideas and topics in a new and novel approach to research and study.

Stay tuned, more information will be flowing online …

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