Telecommunications
Resources
You Are Not Alone
There are national organizations
and a number of state agencies and groups which are willing to help
you established and improve your telecommunications business, or help
you be more effective in your use of telecommunications. If you would
like assistance or information, please contact:
American Telemarketing
Association
500 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite 300
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
800-441-3335; fax 818-995-0878
Publishes both
Consumer Guidelines and Standards and Ethics Guidelines for the industry,
as well as the 10-times yearly Journal of the American Telemarketing
Association (JATA). Membership is open to those with management responsibilities
in telemarketing or related fields, owners and operators of telemarketing
service agencies, and suppliers of related products and services.
National Association
for Information Services (NAIS)
1150 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20036
202-833-2545.
Formed in June
1990, NAIS is an association of people and companies involved with
900-number marketing whose membership consists of local and long distance
carriers, service bureaus, information providers, and related firms.
National Center for
Database Marketing
14618 Tyler Foote, Suite 888
Nevada City, CA 95959-8599
916-292-3000
This is a private
company, not precisely a trade association, that holds conferences
twice a year on the increasingly sophisticated art of database marketing.
The conferences cover every conceivable aspect of database marketing
and are aimed at both business-to-business and consumer marketers.
