[GeoStL] NCR--Andy Rooney Telemarketing Tips
- From: Bernie <happykraut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:06:55 -0500 (CDT)
> Subj: Fw: Andy Rooney Telemarketing Tips
>
> ----- Original Tips for Handling 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. Gosh, what a shame not to
> have your name in their system any longer! (3) Junk Mail Help:
> 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 51 cents 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! It still costs them 51 cents.
>
> The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot
> of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to
> OVERWHELM them. 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!
>
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