Goose
11-16-2002, 06:48 PM
Some interesting ideas:
Great Idea #1 - I suppose some degree of commerce would
grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call
people at home during the dinner hour. But that doesn't make
it any more pleasant.
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 those 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.
Great ideas #2A and 2B - When you get ads in your phone
or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them
throw the stuff away.
Think globally; act locally.
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!
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to your credit card company, or a pizza coupon to a bank. If you didn't get
anything else that day, then just send them their application
back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can send it back empty if you want, just to keep 'em guessing!
Let's turn this e-mail into a chain letter! Eventually, the
banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their
junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to
get junk mail, and best of all...THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!
Let's support our postal service. They say e-mail is cutting
into their business and that's why they need to keep increasing
postage. We can help
Knot my idea.
Great Idea #1 - I suppose some degree of commerce would
grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call
people at home during the dinner hour. But that doesn't make
it any more pleasant.
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 those 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.
Great ideas #2A and 2B - When you get ads in your phone
or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them
throw the stuff away.
Think globally; act locally.
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!
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to your credit card company, or a pizza coupon to a bank. If you didn't get
anything else that day, then just send them their application
back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can send it back empty if you want, just to keep 'em guessing!
Let's turn this e-mail into a chain letter! Eventually, the
banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their
junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to
get junk mail, and best of all...THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!
Let's support our postal service. They say e-mail is cutting
into their business and that's why they need to keep increasing
postage. We can help
Knot my idea.