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Love some of these tips...
ANDY ROONEY'S TIPS FOR TELEMARKETERS
Three Little Words That Work!
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1 - The three little words are: "Hold On Please..." Saying
this, while putting your phone down 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.
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Then, when you eventually hear the phone company's
"beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up the receiver,
which has efficiently completed its task. These three little words will help
eliminate telephone soliciting.
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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.
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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 dialled 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!
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3 - Junk Mail Help: When you get "ads" enclosed with your
phone or utility bill, return these ads" with your payment.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. It still costs them 37 cents.
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The bank and credit card companies are currently getting alot
of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them.
Let's let them know what it is like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all
they are paying for it.....twice!
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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!
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