Register with
the Do
Not Call Registry.
TELEPHONE SOLICITORS
To
some degree, commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren’t
able to call people at home during dinner hour, etc. But that doesn’t make
it any more pleasant.
Steve
Rubenstein, a writer for The San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed ‘THREE
Little Words’ based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation
that would stop the NUISANCE for all time.
Three Little Words that Eliminate Telephone Soliciting:
The 3 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 sales boiler rooms would grind to a halt.
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.
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:
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 you number out or their system!!
ANOTHER GOOD IDEA:
When
you get “ADS” enclosed with your phone or utility bills, return these “ADS”
with your payment. Let the sending company 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 mail, do not
throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage paid return
envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of you other junk mail and
put in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. Send an AD for you
local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citybank.
If you didn’t get anything else that day, then just send then 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, just to keep them guessing.
Eventually, the banks and credit card companies, etc., 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 the best of all, is that they’re paying for it . . .
twice!
Let’s
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. This might be one of those articles { “JUNK E-MAILS” } that
you’ll want to forward to your friends. Or, you can also highlight all this
text with your mouse and copy/paste it to your word processing software on
your computer and send it to your printer to print copies for friends that
don’t have a computer. You can also bring this up in conversation in the
company of your friends. If enough people follow these tips, it just might
decrease junk mail!
