I recieved this in an email from a freind and though it was a neat idea to share, I hope you like
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 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 37 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
littlejunk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT
TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS