Comments on: AdCalls not such a great deal after all

By: fear of loss

fear of loss — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:37:02 +0000

I am a retired business owner. I hate it. I must be building something, be an asset. I just happened upon this dribble,however. I am no one special. Hell I didn’t even get my ged untill I was serving a year. I have however been blessed with the gift to make money.
I can and have turned dead business around. my thoughts on all of this is, 1)Allways leave something on the plate for the other guy. 2)make SURE that the business owner the customer aswell as yourself win.
3) Under promise and over deliver and no mater what always , always keep your word. 4) Use all that you have learned. features and benifits, fear of loss and so on. Just remember that every customer represents an anual income and if keep happy residule my favorite word. There is a universal prinsable that can not be changed that is you reep what you soe good or bad!
Now I well be like Henry Ford my spelling sucks but I can pay people to look those up for me ie the modern version computer spell check. Just a few thoughts from a grandmother. God Bless you all you all have a right to see thing the way you chose to.

By: Nauman

Nauman — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:36:42 +0000

JW Posner just died in a road accident riding his 6th vintage.

By: L Blake

L Blake — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:27:59 +0000

This was aimed at JW Posner, not Frank, BTW.

By: L Blake

L Blake — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:26:42 +0000

In response to your clame of riches and fame: Bull crap. If you were that rich, you would not be posting here. If you knew anything about business, you would understand that keeping your present clientele takes priority over whipping up new customers. Obviously you don’t know anything about business. Therefore, I don’t believe for a New York minute that you own anything past your log cabin. Moreover, if you knew anything about marketing, you would not be talking about “MLM scam.” What a joke! AdCalls is legit. I know. I spent many hours investigating them from my mansion high in the Swiss Alps, when I wasn’t cruising in my private helecoper. ROTF!!

By: Frank Gattoi

Frank Gattoi — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:01:32 +0000

Everyone can be anyone they want to be on the Internet. I’m writing this from my Lear jet. I have been calling for nearly to years on my Adcalls dialer. That represents well over 1000 people that I’ve called. Not one of them has had one single complaint or been bothered by any advertisers or telemarketers. People are always going to write negative remarks of this kind, it is incumbent upon people looking for true value and opportunity to do their own due diligence and not rely on comments such as the one made by this uninformed, negative person. Do as I and thousands of others have done, download the dialer and use it. End of story.

By: ivautt

ivautt — Sun, 13 May 2007 02:28:27 +0000

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By: JW Posner

JW Posner — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:50:01 +0000

Hello: Pin Head Troy. I actually live in a million dollar home on Chicago’s North Shore and the biggest decision I face on a daily basis is which of my six vintage or new BMWs I will drive to my office. I,m a former marketing President for one of the largest advertising agencies in the world and have spent over twenty five very rewarding years in sales and media. I currently own and operate six high end jewelry stores in three states. Adcalls is a scam that will take advantage of many hundreds if not thousands of well intended people. Why offer a perk to an establised client? who if indeed is a happy customer already? The object of business is to attract new customers. Or did you miss that day at your junior high school business class. I have had several very dissapointed sales reps call me from Adcalls who once they came out of the ether, regretted getting involved. by the way you can build a “data base” on customers with a $99.00 piece of software. You should try reading the papers, assuming you can read.

By: troy

troy — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:53:42 +0000

Oh yeah blogging on a site that sells a competitors product AND one who actually quotes Engadget as a source is quite humorous……lets just say smells alot like our election year campaign ads…..

By: troy

troy — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:47:05 +0000

Hey JW…..

You obviously don’t understand the concept or have never been in sales. You get the opportunity to sell this service to business owners who want to capture information and build a database on “their customers”, for your $2,500. The reason you don’t see it in company ads is that it is a reward or gift for their existing clientel. Would you offer a free gift to someone who has never used your product or service! Protected territorys allow those who can’t sell waste valuable potential customers. With every new technology or business plan, i.e. google, ebay, yahoo there are nay sayers such as yourself who just dont understand the concept and try to make others think you know what you are talking about.
Open your eyes and think outside the box, or better yet stay where you are in your log cabin with your horse and buggy outside and enjoy listening to your radio. Btw I don’t work for AdCalls and unlike you don’t get my info from the newspaper…..lol

By: JW Posner

JW Posner — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:21:11 +0000

I responded to a Adcall employment classified last month. They fail to mention that there is a $2,500.00 fee to set your self up as a “agency owner”. What do you get for your money? in a nutshell, nothing. The system is riddeled with flaws. This is an old business model with a new coat of paint. Classic MLM scam. And if your foolish enough to fall for all the hype you end up with out a protected territory and even have to pay for your marketing materials. Don’t quit your day job.(as many have). If the system is so attractive to business owners why havent I seen one offering the free service in thier newspaper ads. Open the newspaper, everyday a new CEO is on the way to prison.

By: quote here

quote here — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:26:40 +0000

We complete the call and retain that personâ€™s information to contact them later to solicit them to join our AdCalls service or for other purposes.

By: Mark Nichols

Mark Nichols — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:59:51 +0000

If you don’t want to receive their calls if they ever do start trying to call everyone… Have you heard of the Do Not Call List? Also, If they decide to spam there are a ton of good free spam filtering programs like Spambayes. I have been in the computer business for over 5 years now and I think what they have is a good idea.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:09:30 +0000

You still haven’t answered the question. If AdCalls isn’t going to solicit people that its customers call, why do they reserve the right to do so in the privacy policy?

By: There is No Cure for Ignorance

There is No Cure for Ignorance — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:54:24 +0000

Michael, I wonder where you came from and what you do for a living? Even though these paragraphs may state that, I agree with Ignorance is bliss. First off, NO ONE i have called on my dialer has EVER been solicited. Additionally our recruitment for Ad Calls does not come from people that operate the dialer.

We DO NOT solicit people from just a phone number, nor do we have a telemarketing division that does so. Thousands of Agency owners cant be wrong, neither can our Corporate Partners.

Remember all of the companies out there, that have a great product that no one else has, or has products that are incredibly successful? Well there will ALWAYS be people out there like YOU and others whom continue to bash companies like us when all you do is spend countless hours online writing crap like this, hating your job, your current life, and pretty much anything else that crosses your path.

Find another way to spend your time!

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:25:39 +0000

Okay, I’ll say it:

You suck as a journalistic writer.

Go read the paragraph from the privacy policy you pasted again, and realize that it doesn’t at all say what the AdCalls representative told the person whose text you pasted. It does indeed say exactly what I said in the first place: that AdCalls can and will contact anyone you ever call through the service, whether you like it or not.

If AdCalls isn’t going to do this, why does the privacy policy say they reserve the right to do it?