Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers:
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 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's 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. Send an ad for
your local chimney cleaner to MBNA - 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 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.
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 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's 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. Send an ad for
your local chimney cleaner to MBNA - 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 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.
