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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 37 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 41 cents..
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own ju nk
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.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO
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