TXT-ing to landlines

Fleki · 16th Sep 2012, 07:53 AM

Lets say you collected a few thousand phone number from businesses, all legit, they know they may be contacted. However, some of them are landlines, not all are cell phones.

Is there a company that I could use to load in all of the collected numbers and blast txt message instead of paying someone to cald-call every single contact?

Fleki

WillR · 16th Sep 2012, 07:14 PM

I'm confused. You can't send a text message to a landline?

SJJPFTW · 16th Sep 2012, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by WillR

I'm confused. You can't send a text message to a landline?

Actually Will there was a service over here that telstra offered a few years ago (2004 I think) where you could send a text to a landline and it would read it out.

Telstra introduces home phone SMS - Mobile Phones: Mobile Phones & Smartphones

I don't know how widespread around the world that is though so the OP might be slightly confused?

Kevin Z · 16th Sep 2012, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by SJJPFTW

Actually Will there was a service over here that telstra offered a few years ago (2004 I think) where you could send a text to a landline and it would read it out.

Telstra introduces home phone SMS - Mobile Phones: Mobile Phones & Smartphones

I don't know how widespread around the world that is though so the OP might be slightly confused?

You have 2 options, filter out your list ie..Land Lines and Cellular Lines. Or Send out a massive blast and see which numbers bounce back. Option 1 is probably your best bet.

WillR · 16th Sep 2012, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by SJJPFTW

Actually Will there was a service over here that telstra offered a few years ago (2004 I think) where you could send a text to a landline and it would read it out.

Telstra introduces home phone SMS - Mobile Phones: Mobile Phones & Smartphones

I don't know how widespread around the world that is though so the OP might be slightly confused?

Come to think of it, I do actually remember seeing phones that were capable of sending and receiving text messages however you had to have a special phone to do that. Wasn't aware of the other.

Dan Grossman · 16th Sep 2012, 11:39 PM

Fleki, how much time have you spent familiarizing yourself with the federal telemarketing laws?

Kreator517 · 16th Sep 2012, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin Z

You have 2 options, filter out your list ie..Land Lines and Cellular Lines. Or Send out a massive blast and see which numbers bounce back. Option 1 is probably your best bet.

I have a similar issue.... Big phone lists but all mixed with landlines. How can one filter the mobile numbers from landlines? is there a software for that?

SJJPFTW · 17th Sep 2012, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by Kreator517

I have a similar issue.... Big phone lists but all mixed with landlines. How can one filter the mobile numbers from landlines? is there a software for that?

What format is your list in? If its in csv or excel then you could probably come up with a macro to sort it for you based on some rules about length of numbers etc etc.

Not my area of experience by any means but I have seen some pretty funky stuff done in excel so surely this is possible

Dan Grossman · 17th Sep 2012, 02:20 PM

While fully aware that doing so without first purchasing do-not-call lists from the federal registry and every state you intend to call numbers in, establishing a do-not-call policy and documenting it, and adhering to all the autodialer regulations would be completely illegal and subject you to a statutory fine for each and every person you "blast" your text or voice call to.

Play fast and loose with the law and it's only a matter of time until one of those "blast" recipients takes 5 minutes out of their day to fill out the telemarketing complaint form on the FTC website.

Tsnyder · 17th Sep 2012, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

While fully aware that doing so without first purchasing do-not-call lists from the federal registry and every state you intend to call numbers in, establishing a do-not-call policy and documenting it, and adhering to all the autodialer regulations would be completely illegal and subject you to a statutory fine for each and every person you "blast" your text or voice call to.

Play fast and loose with the law and it's only a matter of time until one of those "blast" recipients takes 5 minutes out of their day to fill out the telemarketing complaint form on the FTC website.

It's not clear from the OP that his list is subject to
the Do Not Call laws. He said he collected phone numbers
from businesses but he didn't say if the phone numbers were
those of the businesses themselves or of customers.

I may be mistaken but aren't business to business calls exempt
from the Do Not Call laws?

Dan Grossman · 17th Sep 2012, 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Tsnyder

It's not clear from the OP that his list is subject to
the Do Not Call laws. He said he collected phone numbers
from businesses but he didn't say if the phone numbers were
those of the businesses themselves or of customers.

I may be mistaken but aren't business to business calls exempt
from the Do Not Call laws?

If he's got all his ducks in a row legally, good on him. If the numbers he's collected include any residential or personal mobile numbers, even if they're of a business owner, it's not a business call. A business call is to a dedicated business number of a business.

The moment he blasts this message to the whole list, if any of those numbers are personal/residential, he's in trouble. The recording for the landlines has all kinds of requirements, from hours you can place it in, to time between dialing and when the recording begins playing, to requirements that you state your legal business name exactly as it's registered with the state, to having a phone number in the recording that can be guaranteed reachable during business hours to ask for addition to the company's do-not-call list, etc.

I hope none of these warnings are necessary. I've just seen too many posts in these forums from people that aren't doing things legally and don't even realize they aren't.

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Dan Grossman White Hat Marketer War Room Member Join Date: 2007 Location: Montgomeryville, PA Posts: 1,546 Thanks: 77 Thanked 775 Times in 267 Posts	Re: TXT-ing to landlines Share on: While fully aware that doing so without first purchasing do-not-call lists from the federal registry and every state you intend to call numbers in, establishing a do-not-call policy and documenting it, and adhering to all the autodialer regulations would be completely illegal and subject you to a statutory fine for each and every person you "blast" your text or voice call to. Play fast and loose with the law and it's only a matter of time until one of those "blast" recipients takes 5 minutes out of their day to fill out the telemarketing complaint form on the FTC website.
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