Andy Rooney's Tips For Telemarketers

Andy Rooney's Tips for Telemarketers

1. Three Little Words That Work
   
   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.