Tired of Telemarketers? Bet this one won't call Tom Mabe Back
It's easy to hate telemarketers. They often call at the worst possible time. We usually don't want what they are selling, and if they are political - heck, we're inundated with calls before an election.
Sometimes you get a call from someone who is obviously very young and inexperience and afraid. I have more sympathy with them. They are almost certainly students struggling to get by, I just try to get them off the phone politely and quickly.
Survey takers, by which I mean those actually doing real studies, not hawking products under the guise of a survey, are a different thing. Those are usually used to make decisions that are likely to affect me, otherwise I wouldn't be getting the call, so I try to do those, besides, sometimes those lead to a paying focus group!
How much? If there is a focus group, anywhere from $50-$300 depending on how hard it is to find people who qualify for the survey. As I said, I almost always do telephone surveys.
But in most cases, I have little patience for the long term, hard nose, professional telemarketer: e.g., aluminum siding and home repairs sales, magazine subscription sales, and anyone who violates my listing on the Do Not Call List Registry.
With that in mind, I thought I would share this little gem from the mind of Tom Mabe a professional consumerist who tries to make things better for all of us. After being a guest on a widely known talk show, He sent them this mildly censored tape of a phone call where he scared the daylights out of a new and nervous telemarketer, perhaps saving us from yet another pro time-waster in the future.
Hysterically funny.
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Sometimes you get a call from someone who is obviously very young and inexperience and afraid. I have more sympathy with them. They are almost certainly students struggling to get by, I just try to get them off the phone politely and quickly.
Survey takers, by which I mean those actually doing real studies, not hawking products under the guise of a survey, are a different thing. Those are usually used to make decisions that are likely to affect me, otherwise I wouldn't be getting the call, so I try to do those, besides, sometimes those lead to a paying focus group!
How much? If there is a focus group, anywhere from $50-$300 depending on how hard it is to find people who qualify for the survey. As I said, I almost always do telephone surveys.
But in most cases, I have little patience for the long term, hard nose, professional telemarketer: e.g., aluminum siding and home repairs sales, magazine subscription sales, and anyone who violates my listing on the Do Not Call List Registry.
With that in mind, I thought I would share this little gem from the mind of Tom Mabe a professional consumerist who tries to make things better for all of us. After being a guest on a widely known talk show, He sent them this mildly censored tape of a phone call where he scared the daylights out of a new and nervous telemarketer, perhaps saving us from yet another pro time-waster in the future.
Hysterically funny.
Once again, thank you for visiting this blog! Please be sure to forward any post you like to your friends and neighbors.
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