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Re:Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 pres... by Cass on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:26PM (#5758919)
You'd probably do better to target businesses than consumers. Sure, you don't want to call the pharmacy, but how much are you really willing to pay to save yourself one phone call once a month? (Beware, if you're a highly paid and highly antisocial HN user, your response to this is probably going to be "a lot more than the average customer".) Same problem for the restaurant call.

On the other hand, how much would your pharmacist be willing to pay to save his highly paid staff the four hours they spend on the phone every month reminding customers that the prescription they've ordered has been in for a week now? Find a way to solve problems for businesses, not consumers.

I suspect automated collection calls are illegal, or otherwise already exist, but if they're not and they don't, that sounds like a way to make absolute piles of cash from collection agencies (in a slightly ethically dodgy way).

Re:Selling Your Software To Businesses - TwilioCon 2012 pres... by tocomment on Thursday May 23, 2013 @03:37PM (#5759002)
Thanks for the feedback. I guess instead of collection calls, I'd call them payment reminders. This site appears to do just that: http://www.call-center-tech.com/payment-reminder.htm