turning the tables on phone-spamming reverse marketers!
It just burns me up
I don't know about you, but I get pretty annoyed by
automated voice broadcasting systems. If I hear the
phone ring I feel it's reasonable to expect another
person on the line, not a robot.
These days I get voice-broadcasting spam from car
warranty scammers, mortgage brokers, and network
marketers who somehow perversely think that
unsolicited phone spam is okay.
Look - I don't have a problem with cold-callers. That's
a normal - actually courteous method of business-to-
business marketing.
What really irritates me is when a phone-spammer calls
my business line and leaves a message pretending to be
interested in my products and services.
One such program is IBuzzPro - and I came up with a way
to turn the tables on those phone spammers and give them
a piece of my mind - and kick some serious marketing
butt, too.
Marketing is a game where you get your hands dirty
sometimes. I don't mind hardball - but believe me,
phone-spammers deserve a kick in the ass.
Here's what I've started doing: I go to there website,
opt-in, and then send 'em this email:
__________________________________________________ _
"I was wondering if you could check out my business
and tell me if you think your product could be of
use to me. I really appreciate your calling me -
I called you back and went straight to your website
to learn more.
Here's my website - I'd really like your opinion of
it - I was wondering if you could check out my business
and tell me if you think your product could be of
use to me. I really appreciate your calling me -
I called you back and went straight to your website
to learn more.
Here's my website - I'd really like your opinion of
it - Start Making Money - index.html
_________________________________________________
Now this is a whole lot cleverer than you probably think
if you didn't look at the link up there... because this
email is basically an exploding cigar.
On a more serious note you may be wondering about the new
trend in the "income opportunity" world online of setting
up a review site to basically bash the competition - it's
the way things are being done. I seriously think phone-
spamming is sleezy and deserves to be eradicated.
This marketing technique is pretty "agro" -> putting up a
site to excite "reverse marketers" (which is what phone
spammers are doing) by making them believe they have a
prospect, and then deconstructing the idiocy of their
marketing approach, it's also a way to put prospects in
my own lead funnel, because I ACTUALLY DO HAVE A BETTER
OFFER.
You might want to check it out.
Just one of the many, many tricks I have up my sleeve.
Cheers,
Loren Woirhaye
P.S. you may be wondering why I don't use the "Do not call
list" - Actually as a business phone I cannot be on it. If
you publicize your business phone-number you should expect
the number to get "harvested" and get these phone-spam
calls. My method is just a way of turning this annoying
fact of business to your advatage.
P.P.S. I have to admit putting this whole thing together
WAS a little bit fun. Hee Hee
Patricia Brucoli
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