- Three Little Words
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- I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt
if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner
hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
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- Now 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. 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 time-consuming that 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. This might be one of those articles
you'll want to e-mail to your friends. Three little words that eliminate
telephone soliciting.
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- Good Ideas
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- When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include
them with the payment let the companies throw them away.
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- When you get those pre approved letters in the mail for
everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most
of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get
rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes.
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- Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American
Express. Send the pizza coupon to Citibank.
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- If you didn't get anything else that day then just send
them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make
sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty
if you want to just to keep them guessing!
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- Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will
begin getting their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's
like to get junk mail, and the best of it is that they're paying for it.
Twice.
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- Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say
e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase
postage again.
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- Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty
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- Comment
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- From Guy Williams
9-8-2
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- Jeff,
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- This is such an unbelievably simple idea. I received
another credit card app today. I cut any identifying information out of
it and returned everything in their post paid envelope including the envelope
they sent me.
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