This week we have had several of our RHD clients calling us complaining about a specific 3rd party livestock directory web site has been making numerous, repeated sales solicitation calls and e-mails to our clients, almost to the point of harassment.
Nobody likes telemarketers, and nobody likes harrassers.
RHD values your privacy and has not, NOR WOULD EVER, distribute our clients contact information to outside sales vendors. What appears to have happened is that this directory stalks our web site, and then calls or e-mails every single person that has a web site done by RHD.
We apologize for this nuisance and assure you that RHD values your privacy just as much as we value your business.
We do encourage our livestock clients to consider purchasing a link on livestock-related directories to help boost their exposure. There are several different sites who claim to offer the "best results" by purchasing a listing on their site, but after researching which sites provide the best results for our livestock clients, we only recommend ShowSteers.com, ClubCalves.com, Cattle.com, and SteerPlanet.com for our cattle clients, and ShowPig.com for our swine clients.
Additionally, Ranch House Designs maintains ShowToWin.com, and as an added bonus, all livestock-related clients will receive a free link on this site at no additional cost. Most all of the purebred breed associations (national and state) also offer free links on their website to their members as a benefit of joining your breed association.
If you receive a sales or solicitation phone call from a web site directory or listing service trying to convince you to purchase a listing in one of their directories, please exercise caution. Feel free to call our office at 979-532-9141 to discuss whether or not it would be worthwhile to invest your money in directories other than the ones listed above.
Meanwhile, maybe someone will develop a do not call list for livestock people. We realize you have a lot better things to do this time of year than trying to dodge annoying phone calls from people trying to sell you links on their web site.
This is exactly the type of telemarketing that the Do Not Call registry was created for. I have my number on the list and if I was being harassed I would file a complaint. I have read the list of what makes a company exempt from the telemarketer rules — and this company is not exempt.
ReplyDeleteI encourage victims of this telemarketing campaign to register their number with the Do Not Call list if you haven't already done so, and if after 31 days, you receive another sales call from this group, you can file a complaint. If you are already registered, file your complaint now.
https://www.donotcall.gov/