Most of the time, this really gets the caller to stop in their tracks and go from "attack" mode to "maybe I would sell it if the price was right".

Are you just letting the calls go to VM and letting the message educate the caller to your service?

Here are a method that you may not have heard of..36- Caller I.D. and white page advertisingI know what you’re thinking right now. “Michael you’re crazy, caller ID isn’t an advertising method†To that I would have a differing opinion.

On another note: I just remembered getting prank calls all the time (though it was my fault - maybe they were'nt pranks).

hi michael...Yes...call capture is great have used it before in the mortgage industry back in the day before the mortgage meltdown, but works wonderfully.For those of you whom are not familiar with call capture, what it does for you it captures the callers phone number even if he or she blocks it and can follow up on them, great tool have used it myself and got results.Those yellow letters, seem to hear good things about them, and many people or gurus in different areas recommend them.What is it that makes them so effective michael, what have others stated about these yellow letters ?

I think I have a decent voicemail set up though which is important when these callers call because I will be working my normal job.

I'm worried that I'm not doing a very good job on the phone when I get a caller from my direct marketing...

No matter what marketing youre doing be it bandit signs, post cards, yellow letter mail, what ever makes the telephone ring we should be using the callers cell phone to the fullest potential.I set everyone up in a autoresponder text system to keep touching the prospect each month.

So if you want more motivated callers, here is the answer:Do more marketing.

I know from my research that above 70% of callers call from a cell phone.