Agent Will

Are you on the do not call list?  If not then you can get yourself registered https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/

More to the point do you even care about the o not call list?  I don’t.  I don’t get unsolicited phone calls except when there is an election coming up and then I get calls from all sorts of people looking for my vote (fine if the candidate calls… no value if it is one of their volunteers).  And guess what?  The do not call list does not block election calls.

I also get calls from folks like Royal Bank (I have accounts there) and from TD (I have a credit card there) trying to get me to sign up for a new account, or insurance, or whatever.  The Do Not Call list does not block those you have a business relationship with so I will still be getting calls from them, too.  Th only calls I seem to consistently get (once a month) is from SEO (search engine optimization) or Google (not affiliated with google) adwords resellers people who have no idea who or what they are talking about.

The only people I know who get a lot of sales calls are people like my Grandmother who sign up for everything and just have the word (sorry, granny) “mark” stamped on their forehead.  Well, that has mostly been taken care of since we got a little device that blocks “unknown name, unknown number” calls from ringing her phone.

Some in the real estate community are concerned that this will prevent them from drumming up new business.  Yes, it just might.  Then again, who in the real estate industry actually cold calls?  Not me.  Not anyone I know.  It is such a dead form of marketing that I do not know a single person wh does it.

Scratch that.  I have done it a couple of times but it was not without purpose.  I had a client once who was having a real hard time finding the property they wanted in the neighbourhood they wanted.  Every place listed (this was about three years ago) was selling with multiple offers and we would just miss out  Sure, the market has changed today and this isn’t really an issue anymore, but still, the place they ended up buying was a seller I spoke to on the phone about a month before.

I know there was an old guru out there who taught realtors to go out an call 100 people a day and pester and bother them, get your name known (good or bad) and lie to them saying you had a buyer or that the market was whatever.  Those days are long gone.  Thank goodness.  But this Do not Call list is going to stop me, possibly, from conducting one of the most efficient, green, and direct forms of communication even if seldom used.

I can’t imagine calling someone up out of the blue and trying to get them to list with me.  I can’t imagine anyone placing their many hundreds of thousands of dollars of trust into a cold callers hand.  But if I do have a qualified buyer, ready and willing to buy, and I can’t call on that house they want then what are my options?  Door knock or letter.

Great.  If it’s a condo then I have to post a letter.  We’re talking time to delivery, likely dismissal of the message, wasted postage, wasted paper and a most likely lask of an answer at all (a door shut is at least a door shut).

I’m not the only one who thinks the Do Not Call List is a waste of time.  Anoter group has come out saying that the end of calling will increase the amount of unsolicited junk mail flyers (Oh, hey!  There’s a way to fight that kind of mail too: http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/)

And here’s another catch that makes the DNClist not as good as it sounds.  You have to sign up for it every four years (you’ll forget but maybe that first unsolicited call will remind you) and if you change your number, of course, you need to register again.

Nw, if you’re like me, you probably won’t bother signing up. Call display does a great job of shutting these guys out and I never need to register, re-register, or care about it.