614-848-1111
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Magstuff18 Apr 2008- Here is your solution to this annoyance; Amer Assist Headquarters - 8415 Pulsar Place, Columbus, Ohio 43240 877-294-9707 www.amerassist.com Ask for Heather Norman she can take you off of their list. If it is legal action you seek, here is your patsy Ken Monnett CPA, Chief Executive Officer. Hope this helps everyone. Tony, "YOUR FIRED", just thought you should know.
- Found out when I called to be removed from the list that Heather Norman no longer works there and that the company is going out of business so calling this number is no longer valid to be removed from the list. I was told that the company gets phone numbers from various business sites like D & B, etc and that to officially have our number removed from lists it is best to contact D & B and various other sites.
- Hello to all of my anti-telemarketing friends. As a telemarketer for 20+ years I've heard my fair share of insults directed at telemarketers. I do not work for said company but get a big kick out of reading all of the hate comments posted on various internet sites about telemarketers in general. It's funny how business owners don't have "time" or are too good to talk to telemarketers. Yet they have time to come to sites like these and make physical threats against innocent people trying to earn an honest living or make really professional comments like cursing telemarketers, calling them "heffers," "losers," and so much more. I have plenty of experience dealing with unprofessional idiots like most of you here. Therefore I will share my telemarketing wisdom to try to HELP you handle telemarketers in a much more professional manner and help you cut the number of telemarketing calls you receive. Here are the steps you should follow:
1) First and foremost for all of you that think you know it all, you might be on the Do Not Call list, but that ONLY applies to your home or mobile number - NOT your business line. Sorry.
"The national Do-Not-Call list protects home voice or personal wireless phone numbers only. While you may be able to register a business number, your registration will not make telephone solicitations to that number unlawful. Similarly, registering either a home or business fax number will not make sending a fax advertisement to that number unlawful, but the FCC has separate rules that prohibit unsolicited fax advertisements under most circumstances. For more information on the rules for fax advertisements, see our consumer fact sheet at www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html, or visit our Web site at www.fcc.gov/cgb/policy/faxadvertising.html."
2) A good telemarketer is not going to pitch your gatekeeper. She can try to screen telemarketers all she wants but a good telemarketer will simply keep calling until you, the DECISION MAKER, take the call. She eventually has to miss a day of work for various reasons and that my friend is the lucky day a telemarketer will get through to you and try to sale you something! Woo hoo!
3) For those of you that like to physically threaten a telemarketer for simply trying to do their job you should realize that many companies record the phone calls that their telemarketers make. If you are recorded making a physical threat towards a telemarketer and you're recorded doing so you are simply asking for a lawsuit. Believe you me many telemarketers would love to retire early because of some stupid idiot who threatens to kill or physically harm a telemarketer. Go ahead and take the risk. You could be subject to losing your business, having your business name and your own name smeared on national news all because you acted like a psychotic idiot because you got a "sales call."
4) Don't you realize that telemarketers laugh when you taunt them with name calling and get your blood pressure sky high? It's hilarious!
5) If you want someone to stop calling you simply answer the phone when they call. I read many comments on here about how said company calls 4-5 times a week. Solution, answer the call instead of screening it. Listen to the pitch. If you aren't interested simply tell the caller you aren't interested in a polite manner and I bet they wouldn't call you anymore. At the company I run my staff of "phone jockeys" (which I thought was a hilarious term for a telemarketer that I read on this site) are more than happy not to call somebody again if they politely tell my telemarketer not interested.
6) No telemarketer really cares how many "calls like this" you get per day. It's not their problem.
7) For those of you who love to play games with telemarketers believe you me they enjoy it too. If you're going to let a sales call get your britches in a knot they think it's pretty funny. There are much worse things to get upset about especially during these poor economic times.
8) Telemarketers love when you say not interested or just plain hang up on them during their pitch before you have any idea why they're calling you. A good telemarketer will simply call you back on another day with hopes that you'll be in a better mood and then listen to their pitch.
9) The more challenging it is to get a decision maker on the phone the more motivated a telemarketer will be to get that person on the phone. Your gatekeeper may win some of the battles on the phone but a good telemarketer will somehow find a way to get you on the phone and win the war.
10) The easiest solution folks to decrease the number of telemarketing calls you receive is simple: TAKE THE CALL! Let them try to sale you something! Who knows it may actually be something that could help your company increase profit. And let's face it. All of you business owners are selling something too otherwise how could you possibly be in business if somebody wasn't buying something from you. And for those of you who allege your business never makes sales calls and that all of your income is "word of mouth" you are full of cucka!
Best wishes to all and may all of the telemarketers worldwide sale sale sale and may all of the business owners and decision makers buy buy buy! The economy could use it! God bless!- I am a secretary and I can say that you telemarketers are the scum of the earth. Don't you realize that we are trying to do OUR jobs and not have to deal with your lame business pitches. If we want to do business with you, we'll find you. Stop calling us. And by the way, if you call and we tell you to stop, you have to stop unless you want charges pressed against you. We're not playing games with you, the owner of the company will not waste his time on scum like you. If you don't like your job, get a new one. And I absolutely LOVE IT when you start screaming at me to put my boss on the phone, I definitely will listen to everything you say now that you yelled at me. You all are stupid. The world would be much better without you.
- I like this Tony guy. We need more people like him who support telemarketing. I am a telemarketer for a cell phone company. I can tell you that I am not scum. I own a $400,000 home, drive a bmw and own a cottage on a beach. And I earned it honestly through hard work in my 22 year career as a TELEMARKETER!
- Forgive me not contributing any sympathy for poor abused telemarketers. You have chosen a profession that has a public image somewhere beneath lawyers and used car sales. Maybe a tad above derivatives traders - maybe. And for good reason. There are many competent, professional telemarketers with quality products or services to sell, there are many more abusive idiots. If you want the complaints to stop and be proud to tell your mothers what you do for a living, get together and clean up the profession. This number is a case in point. Call, hang up. Call, hang up. Call, hang up. Call, ask for me, I identify myself, hang up. Call, hang up. That's yesterday and today. I return the call, number is not in service. This is my private cell phone, it is not a business, and it is on the National Do Not Call List.
- If we need your business we will find you. Some of us are small companies(1 person!) and our business line is our cell phone too!
No, I've got no more employees.
I'm sure.
Totally sure.
I appreciate you calling.
No I don't plan on increasing in the next few minutes.
Still one employee. I'm sorry, I'm just on my way to lunch, and I'm not interested.
Yes, I hear you, but I am not interested in your health insurance scam right now. Thanks!
Sorry, please, I'm trying to get to lunch!
*click*
Ever wonder why that happens? Yeah, be less annoying and interested in what I'm saying, and you'll be fine. Be annoying, you'll get hung up on pretty quick these days.
Hell, I even tried to take an offer once, when I needed health insurance. Got quotes, person goes over all this detail with me - Oh, you live in Texas? Your area code is in texas? Oh, can't help you! Sorry for wasting HOURS of your time! - Hello, I actually appreciate how polite you have seemed through your post. I wish the telemarketers I get would be more like what you describe. I am said gatekeeper and it is MY JOB to make sure that the owner of my company does not get these calls. I know you are only trying to do your job, but so am I. I always try to be polite but usually, they are the ones threatening my job if they don't make it through and hanging up on me. I have three basic questions I as every caller: 1) What is your name? 2)What company are you with? 3)What is this call concerning? I usually don't get to make it to number three. All I am trying to do is save us all some time with these questions. My owner is usually busy with machines, employees, customers and any other problems we can throw at him so he doesn't handle 99% of the things telemarketers are calling for. If you can answer my questions I can get you to the right person or if I know something, I can tell you whether or not we are interested. I don't get rude until you do. In fact, just like you, I find the calls can be the best part of my day! I enjoy letting YOU get riled up and then shooting you down when you get belligerent. As for the good telemarketers making it through, it just doesn't happen. My owner NEVER answers the phone. If I happen to be out of the office there are two , sometimes three, other people who answer the phone and they won't let you through either. And as far as playing games? My owner has told me on several occasions to ask for passwords or something of the nature. While he never answers the phone, he may take a call if he happens to be in the office overhearing us, so HE can have fun with you. Anyways, enough rambling. I understand that you have a job to do. But understand that so do I, and the gatekeepers are not the only ones calling names, threatening people, hanging up and in general being rude. Thanks and, yes, God Bless.
- Hello Tony and all you Telemarketers out there.
My job as a business owner and only employee is to focus on my business and on serving my customers.
When I get a call and the caller ID reads 0000000000 or any other number I don't recognize, I do my best to answer the call, since it could be a customer calling - from behind a PBX system - and I don't wish to miss out on potential work.
When it turns out that it is a telemarketer, I am polite, listen to some if not all of the sales pitch and nine times out of ten, I have no need or use for what he/she is selling. I politely tell them so and I ask that the number be removed from the call list. It is, however, rare that I don't get another call from the same company a couple of days later! Having been in sales for over 20 years, I know the tactics and I understand.
What I don't get, is why would a medical supply company call and try to sell me stuff when I'm not even remotely close to that kind of a business? My website is very specific about me doing computer work, but it does make mention of me working with small medical offices. Are they hoping that I would try to sell a dentist or a chiropractor some medical supplies? Hmmm...
Also, why would the same company try to sell me advertising, when I made it very clear to the first four callers that I don't have the budget or the need for it? One would think that they would want to explore new leads and not beat the same ones to death!
But, let's say that I can understand the sales calls.
Why then, do I still get two, sometimes three more sales calls within days of making a purchase? These guys are clueless to the fact that I already bought what they're selling. So, in cases like that, I call back, cancel my order and tell them why it's being cancelled.
So, Tony The Great Telemarketer, although some of us don't yell, b***h, cuss or get our panties in a nut when a telemarketer calls, the industry as a whole would have much better "luck" (success) if the folks working it would follow some simple rules and also if they were polite and have their act together.
I have talked to some real, professional telemarketers and also the fly-by-night ones and I can tell the difference!
If the first caller from a company is rude once I turn him/her down, the next caller from that same company will not make a sale either! Guaranteed!
Also, if you call and ask for my help with that one more sale that will put you over the top so you can win the trip to Mexico, well, I wouldn't pack that suitcase yet... - I can't imagine being so uneducated that the only thing you can do for a living is be a telemarketer. That really is the low of the low of jobs. "unprofessional idiots" ??? YOU ARE A TELEMARKETER CALLING PEOPLE AT WORK WHO HAVE REAL JOBS.... how bizarre that you or anyone would justify such a thing. And by your llloooonnngggggg note, you obviously have a problem with it yourself and you are trying to justify this yourself.
ps. 20 years??? You haven't been promoted to some other job within your company after 20 YEARS? That says a lot about you personally... - To all of you that ask for the "owner" or try to act like you know him. A good assistant knows all his friends and business associates. 99% of the time it is not him you want to talk to. He usually has someone that handles whatever you are calling about. Owners are not usually in, they have other people to run their company. When I ask what the call is about and if you would tell me I would be very happy to connect you to the person you would need to speak with. But when you call you already have an attitude on your end of the phone. I guarantee I make a lot more money than you do and the reason I am paid so well is because I can keep calls like you from getting through and no if I am not in you will not get through to him because all his calls go to my voice mail. You really do need a "real job" or a different attitude when you call I am always nice and always tell the caller that I will find the right person to help them but then I get an attitude or rudeness from the other end of the call. Plus I keep a list of numbers that call and the telemarkets that are rude. When I see that number again I just don't answer the phone or I remind you of the our last conversation and how that ended. Be nice, tell us what you are calling about. We know everyone needs to make a living but don't try to act like you are more than you are when you call. I actaully had one person that was so rude and the owner was actually in and he got on the phone told him that because he was so rude to me (his secretary) he would never do business with that company and we are a multi-million company..their loss.
- I have the perfect solution to all of the people who find the time to b***h about being bothered by telemarketers. Step one, if it bugs you enough to waste more of your free time writing a blog then maybe you should find a job other than a secretary where your job doesn't entail taking calls from telemarketers. Step two, if step one isn't an option than deal with it like the rest of us and do your shity job and collect your pay check. Step three shut up and refer to step two.
- InquiringMinds30 Apr 2008
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