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The Sales Buzz Issue 87 - Cold call rules and legislation
August 23, 2010
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Cold call rules and legislation around the world

Do you know the rules and legislation for cold calling and prospecting potential customers in your country or state?

A recent contribution to the website opened up a discussion on local legislation and how some sales people get around it. Scroll down to learn more about Cold call rules and legislation...


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Cold call rules and legislation

What are the rules on cold calling and prospecting where you do business?

In a recent contribution to the provensalestraining.com website Dick Hall from Brisbane Australia told us about the rules he has to work within when contacting new prospects.


In Australia it is prohibited from making cold telemarketing calls unless your company is a charity, so that knocks that one the head.

Of course there are those who say that if you are trying to sell something then it is a telemarketing experience.

Others say they are selling the appointment. Either way if it is unsolicited then it is unwanted, and an illegal approach.

by Dick Hall
(Brisbane Australia)


If like me you work in sales in a country with far less restrictions on sales prospecting, can you imagine trying to hit targets, or grow your business, within the Australian telemarketing rules.


In the UK we have the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), which the public can register with to stop unsolicited sales calls.


Here’s an explanation of the TPS service from their website.

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is a free service. It is the official central opt out register on which you can record your preference not to receive unsolicited sales or marketing calls.

It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.

Organisations with which you have an ongoing relationship, for example those who regard you as a customer, (or in the case of charities - a donor) may well gather your consent during the early stages of your relationship with them and will therefore be entitled to call you even if your number is registered on TPS, unless you have previously told them specifically that you object to them calling you for marketing purposes.

You can get more information from the TPS website

There is also a Corporate TPS register which works in the same way. You can get more information from their website at Corporate TPS.


In my experience neither of these registers is strictly enforced. There are still many sales organisations that make calls without first checking the prospect against the TPS register.

The good news for sales people in the UK is that a genuine telesales or appointment maker is unlikely to get reported or fined if they make just one call to a TPS registered number. It is usually only if the calls persist that action is taken.


What are the rules where you prospect?

So now tell us about the cold calling and telemarketing legislation in your part of the world.

What are the rules, what can you do and what are the restrictions?

How strongly are they enforced and what are the penalties?

And, how do sales people get around the legislation or do they ignore it?


Just go the page where Dick Hall’s original message is published, and scroll down to the comments link then click and type.

All messages and comments will be in next week’s newsletter which should give an interesting insight into the different rules around the world.

Open the original message on Telemarketing in Australia and leave your comment.





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