belgareth
03-31-2006, 02:16 PM
(What a nice idea! Thank you to the lovely lady who sent this to me.)
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. 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 39 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 39 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!
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. 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.
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. 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 39 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 39 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!
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. 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.