"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain
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 little
junk mail anymore.
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