Subject: Tips for telemarketers and junk mail
Read this, it is makes sense.
Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers and junk mail
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 t! ime to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently
complet ed 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 37cents 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.
I absolutely LOVE doing this!
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 an! onymous, 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 little
junk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO
YOUR FAMIL! Y
AND FRIENDS.
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