Andy Rooney's Tips For Telemarketers: Three
Little Words That Work !!
(1)The three little words are: "Hold on, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up
immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler
room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its
task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time
of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best
time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately
start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This
confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their
system. Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
(3) Another Good Idea: When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility
bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies
throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit
cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the
regular 37cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents
before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid
of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return
envelopes. One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your local
chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you
didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!
Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their own junk back in
the mail.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're
paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into
their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again.Â
You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work---- I have been doing this for years, and
I get very little junk mail anymore.
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