Business groups resumed their attacks on proposed anti-spam legislation yesterday. The Investment Funds Institute of Canada argued against consent provisions before a House of Commons committee.
Business Resumes Attack on Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation
September 29, 2009
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Episode 276: Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard on Canada’s Access to Information Failures and Why Access Delayed is Access Denied
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Not surprised
The financial advisor interviewed cold contacts potential new customers based on referrals from current clients. Perhaps he should consider getting the current client to contact the potential client with his information…
I see it happening this way. The advisor gets a reference for a list of potential clients that a “current client” has mined from emails, linkedin, Facebook, etc… If you think this won’t happen, a similar thing happened to me; somehow a stock broker got hold of the telephone directory for a company I worked for at the time (perhaps from the company itself). They then started calling all of the employees at work…