- 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 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. 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? 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. Since doing this,
my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
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- (3) Another Good Idea
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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
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.
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