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COLD CALLING, SPAM EMAILING
Cold calling and Email spamming has become an aggressive method today. Lots of small scam companies and even some regular SEO companies are resorting to these sorts of tactics. They just go to a website using a Google search or by some other means take the email ID or phone number listed on their website, send them an email asking them sign up for their unethical Search engine optimization service. Even they use email harvesters or phone number harvesters to send mass bulk emails. Most of the people who do this are also the biggest search engine manipulators.
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Cold Calling
Email Spamming
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Sample e-mails for cold calling |
Example 1
From: Emma francina <emmafrancina@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2001 at 01:10 PM
Subject: Request for buying links
To: mno123@gmail.com
Cc: Leo <Leo@dataone.in>
Company: Cre
Country: India
City: Chennai
Comments: Hello!
I run few websites similar that have a good PR, high Traffic and less OBL.Would you be interested in buying links from our website? We assure that you will experience a further increase in your PR and SERP in doing so. Please contact me if you are interested and I can offer you links at affordable prices. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Emma.
gtalk :emmafrancina@gmail.com
skype :emma.francina
yahoo messenger : emma francina
Example 2
Cold Call E-Mail Example:
(http://www.businessgrowth.us/newsletters/CxONews-070400-web.html)
From: Rick Erling <rickerl@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 5, 2010 at 06.30 PM
Subject: We work with European Group Insurance
To: Jones <jones@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael <micky@gmail.com>
Dear Mr. Jones,
We are business performance improvement specialists, and we work with other management teams to integrate strategy, marketing and sales into one outbound revenue capture program.
Through our programs and services, we help executives:
Reduce marketing costs
Decrease sales cycle selling times
Increase market share positioning
Maximize marketing ROI
Increase sales success to management
IBM
AT&T
Omine National Medical Group
New York Investment Group
Tyco
I am just contacting you to see if we can set up a short 20 minute conversation to chat about our offerings and see if they might be a good fit for you and your team.
I will not waste your time.
Please advise.
Regards,
Rick Erling
President, Business Growth U.S., The CxO Group,LLC
www.businessgrowth.us
Example 3
From: Jenny <jenny@yahoo.co.in
Date: Wed, Sep10, 2001 at 12.56 PM
Subject:
To: Jayem <jayem56@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricky <rick61@gmail.com>
Can you believe I got this from a sales training company?
(http://www.jillkonrath.com/sales-blog/bid/101493/Example-of-a-Really-Bad-Cold-Call-Email)
It came via email ... and it's from a big, well-known sales training firm! When I read it, I was appalled at how out of touch this company was.
As you read it, imagine you're the VP of Sales for your company. You're swamped. An important customer is upset. You've had some turnover recently. You're reading it on your cell phone -- and your inbox is full.
[Your Name]
My name is Jennifer with XYZ Sales Training. We improve sales performance though our unique blend of sales technology and experience, resulting in 89% better quota achievement. Our industry-leading methodology has helped more than 650,000 sales professionals find and close more deals, and our proven sales process makes your forecast and pipelines accurate by putting science behind it.
It all gets delivered through our BigDeal® technology - the on-demand Sales Performance Automation application that operates standalone, or can be integrated with your existing CRM system to produced sustained, measurable results. And to ensure that your sales teams get the full benefit, our virtual learning system delivers on-the-job training worldwide – reinforced by expert coaching.
I am not sure if you would be the appropriate contact, but I am trying to find the person at your organization who evaluates our type of program offering. Would it be possible for us to speak for 5 minutes or can you point me to the correct person to contact? Find out how organizations like Microsoft, Xerox, Honeywell, Siemens, United Healthcare and Adobe have found success with our offering and how [not provided] can find similar achievement.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide. I kindly await your response.
Cold calls done as a way of survey calls:
(http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=79680)
davfran
Frequent Poster Posts: 137
survey phonecalls, unsolicited "cold calls" etc.
Sorry if I'm posting this in wrong forum. Lately we have been getting phone calls from non Irish callers doing a survey. They speak so fast initially I never got to hear who exactly they were doing the survey for. Having refused to do the survey they are very persistant about ringing back, now I just hang up before they get started. Has anyone else got these calls and if so what is the scam?
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13-04-2008, 11:01 AM
NicolaM
Frequent Poster Location: Dublin
Posts: 771
Re: survey phonecalls
Hi,
This might not necessarily be a scam, per se, it may be merely 'cold calling', trying to sell you something or other, in the guise of a 'survey'. It is a possibility that these are actually Irish companies, with outsourced offices to a different country. Or indeed, Irish based companies with non Irish staff.
Maybe at the start of the conversation, you should ask them to repeat what company they are calling from, and if it is still incomprehensible, to get them to repeat it, just so you know who's doing this.
If they were unsolicited calls from an Irish company, you can stop them by registering a preference to not receive them. There's information about this on http://www.citizensinformation.ie/ca...ne_sales_calls
I don't know how you can block call like this if they are coming from other countries though.
Nicola
See the following mass email sent to some of our email IDs.
From:Joseph Swanson<Joseph**@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Subject: Request for buying links
To: abc987@gmail.com
Cc: Leonard <Leonard@dataone.in>
Comments : We would like to get your website on first page of Google. All of our processes use the most ethical \"white hat\" Search Engine Optimization techniques that will not get your website banned or penalized. Please reply and I would be happy to send you a proposal. In order for us to respond to your request for information, please include your company's website address (mandatory) and or phone number.
This is like relating SEO to selling fake pharmacy related products. Why would anyone do that, this is the primary reason search engines are against Search engine optimization companies. Most of them don't have any courtesy for the search engines. All they want is to rank a website regardless of what the website offers or whether it's a worthy website to rank. If SEO companies decide only quality sites should rank then search engines will move much closer to them.
Regards,
Joseph.
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Screen Shots |
The below mentioned Screen shot shows the reviews given by people towards the traffic power company which was penalized by Google for cold calling.
An example of spam email.
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Surveys |
A survey was conducted for 112 respondents to know the frequency of cold calls that they received. 45% respondents have never received any such cold calls. Whereas 35% seldomly get such calls and very few, like about 4% oftenly receive cold calls.
The graph below shows the percentage of people who have opened a spam mail, clicked on a spam link, replied to a spam mail, opened a spam attachment and those that have never come across a spam mail. the survey was conducted in order to find out how many people are victims of spam mails and to know the level of awareness among people about such unsolicited mails.
(http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2010/07/16/the-abusive-math-of-cold-calling/) At a recent conference I heard Mahan Khalsa, co-author of Let's Get Real of Let's Not Play share the following statistics. (I don't have the source of the data, but my experience tells me it's pretty accurate.) Cold calling results in about a 1-3% success rate for getting an initial appointment and it's generally abusive to both parties. When that same call is made with a referral, the rate jumps up to 40% and even much higher when that referral comes from within the company.
(http://www.insidesales.com/insider/how-to/inside-sale-debate-is-cold-calling-alive-and-well/) A recent B2B demand generation survey revealed that B2B marketers reported cold calling as their third-highest quality lead generation channel. The survey, conducted by Software Advice and others, has created a discussion among industry experts of whether cold calling is still a model that drives business. (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/survey-millions-of-users-open-spam-emails-click-on-links/5889)
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Graphs |
Initially the email spam trend was high during the period of Aug, 2011 but it gradually decreased due to Google's Algorithm update.The graph shows the trends in email spam from the year 2011-2012.
The pie chart above depicts the number of spam emails in the inbox of a hotmail user. It is observed that 40% of mails are received from cold calling companies that want to provide SEO servics.
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