Stop all the hate towards telemarketers

[DELSOL]

Ripping phone for over 15 years now. Got so good at it, I duplicated myself and talents. Built a business around courtesy calls, enhanced rhetoric and soft skills that get results for my clients.

I know it gets a bad rap and people do not want to be bothered. Yet, if done correctly, can create a good experience and fulfill both needs.

Remember, it is still a means to an end for a lot of people. They have a disadvantage by not seeing the client's micro expressions and body language. Give a skilled speaker credit that has the ability to create a bond sight unseen and from scratch.

Finally, not all telemarketers represent illegal, shady or unethical organizations. All they need is just need five minutes of your time.

 

[Enfuego]

Ripping phone for over 15 years now. Got so good at it, I duplicated myself and talents. Built a business around courtesy calls, enhanced rhetoric and soft skills that get results for my clients.

I know it gets a bad rap and people do not want to be bothered. Yet, if done correctly, can create a good experience and fulfill both needs.

Remember, it is still a means to an end for a lot of people. They have a disadvantage by not seeing the client's micro expressions and body language. Give a skilled speaker credit that has the ability to create a bond sight unseen and from scratch.

Finally, not all telemarketers represent illegal, shady or unethical organizations. All they need is just need five minutes of your time.

You sound just like a salesman.

1) Courtesy calls is not what the receiver calls it. We call it a pain in our ass.

2) Fulfill both needs? If we have a need, we'll go buy the product on our own.

3) Need five minutes of my time? I don't have five minutes to give a guy that gets my phone number from some shady business deal especially after I've registered my phone on the registry.

 

[JustinCruise]

You sound just like a salesman.

1) Courtesy calls is not what the receiver calls it. We call it a pain in our ass.

2) Fulfill both needs? If we have a need, we'll go buy the product on our own.

3) Need five minutes of my time? I don't have five minutes to give a guy that gets my phone number from some shady business deal especially after I've registered my phone on the registry.

Many people do not realize their own needs.

For example when I used to call about retirement planning many of those individuals had any clue what they really needed in order to retire

 

[snoop]

Did you tell them to place some $$$ on your parlay picks? :missingte

 

[Enfuego]

Many people do not realize their own needs.

For example when I used to call about retirement planning many of those individuals had any clue what they really needed in order to retire

People don't know they need money to retire?

 

[slapshot]

if it's a number i don't now sometimes i'll answer it

Sports desk account number please after a little talk trying to get him to sign up they hang up and his boss will call back a few minutes later

 

[SmokeyWins]

i own a company that employs 20 telemarketers and they make more money than anything else they would qualify for. most have very little education and are great people. we help people cancel timeshare if they were lied to when they purchased the timeshare... which IS most of the time. NOW....... theres someone to not like, timeshare sales reps!

 

[DELSOL]

You sound just like a salesman.

1) Courtesy calls is not what the receiver calls it. We call it a pain in our ass.

2) Fulfill both needs? If we have a need, we'll go buy the product on our own.

3) Need five minutes of my time? I don't have five minutes to give a guy that gets my phone number from some shady business deal especially after I've registered my phone on the registry.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Just for arguments sake, where did it come across as a sales pitch? I never once asked for $. Just a chance to educate the potential client so they may make a better informed decision. If I present myself in the best light, then they decide to move forward. Make sense?:think2:

 

[Bane1976]

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Just for arguments sake, where did it come across as a sales pitch? I never once asked for $. Just a chance to educate the potential client so they may make a better informed decision. If I present myself in the best light, then they decide to move forward. Make sense?:think2:

Going to assume you work for a book; am I correct?

 

[Enfuego]

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Just for arguments sake, where did it come across as a sales pitch? I never once asked for $. Just a chance to educate the potential client so they may make a better informed decision. If I present myself in the best light, then they decide to move forward. Make sense?:think2:

Where we disagree is that I don't need guys like you to phone my house during dinner and educate me on anything. If I need to be educated, I'll call you. Make a more informed decision? What tells you a 20 something year old kid with zero life experience and no education is going educate a person he/she is calling on anything?

 

[Enfuego]

Going to assume you work for a book; am I correct?

He manages a bunch of these scumbags that call my house even when I'm on the "do not call" registry.

 

[dtmad]

I got a call the other day. The guy said it was a "Courtesy Call". I asked him what was courteous about it. He didn't understand my question. I pointed out that perhaps it was courteous to him, not me, since he was calling at a time that was convenient for him but not for me. He didn't understand, but said he wanted to discuss something other than the meaning of "courtesy call" and I said I wasn't going to talk about anything else until he explained the meaning of courtesy call. I don't know who hung up on whom.

 

[BostonBettor]

I conducted my own unscientific experiment. I found that when I politely said no thank you, please take me off your list - I'd get a call back from a different number but same company within a couple of days. I found that when I told the guy to fuck off and never call again - I'd get a call back two to sometimes three weeks later. These days I just don't answer unless I recognize the number. I know telemarketers have a job to do, but they are so relentless it pisses me off.

 

[DELSOL]

Going to assume you work for a book; am I correct?

Far from it.

I handle inbound customer service calls for the majority of the clients. It is a U.S. based business following all U.S. and CR labor laws. Nothing illegal, we pay all taxes and are very transparent. That is why I am on my 6th year and have grown to over 100 FTE.

The outbound calls are made from scrubbed DNC lists to opted in data provided by the client. They are so good, people often call them, "Glenn Gary lists".

If you could easily earn over 100K legally in 6 months, would you get hung up on the phone for a living?

 

[dtmad]

I do not understand posters' stance that unwanted telemarketing calls are not too bad because "at least they have a job". In Oregon, you can't pump your own gas, the reason being that paying attendants to do this simple task provides jobs. Hell, drug-dealers have jobs. I guess that could be considered a partial justification for not arresting them. At least they have a job. Another "job" is littering, not that the litterers get paid, but often those who clean up after them do. In fact, we could create lots of "jobs". We could actually pay people to litter and pay others to follow them and clean up after them. Using the "at least they have a job" argument as even a minor point in justifying telemarketing is bullshit.

 

[JustinCruise]

I do not understand posters' stance that unwanted telemarketing calls are not too bad because "at least they have a job". In Oregon, you can't pump your own gas, the reason being that paying attendants to do this simple task provides jobs. Hell, drug-dealers have jobs. I guess that could be considered a partial justification for not arresting them. At least they have a job. Another "job" is littering, not that the litterers get paid, but often those who clean up after them do. In fact, we could create lots of "jobs". We could actually pay people to litter and pay others to follow them and clean up after them. Using the "at least they have a job" argument as even a minor point in justifying telemarketing is bullshit.

It's not bullshit at all. They earn their living instead of living off the government and tax payers dollars.