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Business idea: shared phone assistants. Whenever someone calls your number, the assistant answers only "hello?", they have to speak to your assistant and ask f
by cwkoss 8y ago
Business idea: shared phone assistants. Whenever someone calls your number, the assistant answers only "hello?", they have to speak to your assistant and ask for you by name and/or passphrase to be connected to you.
You can add some prestige to calling someone (having a human answering and screening your calls for you) at a pretty low cost (1 minute per call? 2-3 cheap workers could cover the whole biz, could share lines between ~ 50-100 people with distinct sounding names). eliminate all unsolicited calls for the customer.
- inteleng 8y agoThis exists, and it's called a secretary.
- supertrope 8y agoToo expensive to scale. Recorded greetings and directories have been around for a long time. Just having "Welcome to XYZ Co. For sales press 1, for support press 2, for a staff directory press 3" etc. is fairly effective in rebuffing robocalls as only human spammers bother pressing digits.