Andy Rooney's tips

> Some brilliant ideas
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> Subject: Andy Rooney's tips
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> This is some information I'm going to put to use
> ... Tired of filled up
> waste baskets !
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> Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers - Three
> Little Words That Work !!
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> (1) The three little words are: "Hold On,
> Please..."
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> Saying this, while putting down your phone and
> walking off (instead of
> hanging-up
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> 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 your
> handset, which has efficiently
> completed its task.
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> 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?
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> 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 !!!
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> (3) Junk Mail Help:
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> 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.
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> 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! 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.
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> 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!
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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 !
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> If enough people follow these tips, it will work
> ---- I have been doing this
> for years, and I get very little junk mail
> anymore.
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> THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT
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