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 all 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 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. 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. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO
YOUR FRIENDS.