In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that operated out of central New Jersey. He’d developed a love for film ...

There are plenty of people working to make the world a better place. Doctors vaccinate children in Africa. Researchers hunt cures for cancer. Then there’s Roger Anderson. He’s harnessing technology to ...

We started receiving this warning in our inbox in 2015: Despite dire warnings like the one above about the imminent release of cell phone numbers to telemarketers that continue to be circulated via ...

Don’t be put off by the snoozy title: Telemarketers is one of the most exciting documentaries I’ve seen in years. Effortlessly dodging, and sometimes subtly parodying, every maudlin cliché of the true ...

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The filmmaker brothers executive-produce a three-part docuseries about whistleblowers in a telemarketing scam operation. “Telemarketers” focuses on two former telemarketing employees Pat Pespas and ...

Finessing telemarketing techniques will boost the small-business' earning potential. Knowing how to make contact, hold a sales conversation and wrap up the sale are integral parts of telemarketing.

Directors Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern explain how their hilarious and shocking investigation came to be. Two decades ago, Civic Development Group put a lot of people to work who couldn’t ...

Telemarketing is marketing with outbound phone calls to try to sell prospective customers the product or service you're offering. It is a form of outbound sales, but rather than face-to-face ...