smallbusiness.co.uk: Helping your business think big

Unsolicited sales calls are often intrusive and an unwanted distraction for businesses but there are ways to prevent them.

The best place to start is a free service called the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS). It is free to register numbers at www.tpsonline.org.uk, and this will provide you a first line of defence against unsolicited UK sales and marketing calls – whether to all of your organisation's telephone numbers or just to certain numbers.