jecasc - 8:30 am on Jun 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

I am glad that cold calling is illegal where I live.

Nevertheless I still get enough (illegal) cold calls. And my personal advice would be: Invest two minutes time in finding out if the business you are calling even has a need for your products or service.

I get calls from companies that offer search engine marketing all the time. Yet they do not have a single clue about my website. Although it would perhaps take two minutes to find out relevant keywords and check the rankings. But of course a company calling me about this issue has already proven to be incompetent since any expert can see that I do not need their service.