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Dialing for Dollars: From Boiler Rooms to Bots: The New Telemarketing Hustle in the Age of AI 2nd Edition
Paperback
Series: The Business Growth Blueprint Series: How to Sell More, Scale Your Team, and Lead Like a Pro, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 26 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dialing for Dollars: From Boiler Rooms to Bots - The New Telemarketing Hustle in the Age of AI
By Mike Shew, LIFA, MBA, CFBA
Telemarketing used to run on adrenaline, cheap leads, and high-pressure scripts. The infamous boiler rooms of the past were loud, chaotic, and often ethically questionable. But those days are gone. Compliance crackdowns, smarter consumers, and advanced technology forced the entire industry to evolve-or disappear.
Dialing for Dollars takes you inside the transformation of phone-based selling, from the gritty, smoke-filled backrooms of yesterday to the sophisticated AI-driven call centers of today. Whether you're an entrepreneur, sales leader, or simply curious about how bots, predictive dialers, and AI voice technology now dominate the landscape, this book is your essential guide.
Inside, You'll Learn:✔️ Why traditional boiler rooms collapsed-and what replaced them
✔️ How AI, automation, and hybrid systems are reshaping outbound sales
✔️ Which tech tools, CRMs, APIs, and dialers power modern call centers
✔️ How to build scripts that blend human connection with machine efficiency
✔️ The telemarketing laws that matter-TCPA, TSR, GDPR, CASL, and more
✔️ Bot etiquette and how to make automation sound authentically human
✔️ How to hire, train, and manage remote or hybrid sales teams
✔️ The metrics that define success in the AI age
✔️ Real-world case studies, templates, and compliance resources
Featuring global telemarketing law comparisons, AI voice bot scripts, and a complete resource toolkit, this book delivers both the warning and the roadmap for anyone working in phone-based outreach today.
If you've ever wondered how robocalls really work-or how legitimate businesses use AI to scale ethically and effectively-this book pulls back the curtain.
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