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Great Literature to a Telemarketer
A guide
by Anthony Trendl
reader of literary classics to random callers, but otherwise
editor of hungarianbookstore.com see
also: In
this present world in which telemarketers believe they have a right to call us
with their wares, and the courts look desperately for a solution that is legal
and enduring, let me offer some ideas. Since
telemarketing is emotionally equal to gambling and mortgage spam, realize those
calling us are either children who thought calling people would be a better job
than fast food, or difficult to employ adults. Help them out.
As
with any rehabilitation effort, you need to reeducate, or in most cases, educate
the poor caller. Who knows what kind of home theyve grown up in. Culture is surely
lacking, and thats where you come in.
Read
to Them
Choose your passages carefully. Have them ready when the
unsuspecting caller tries to find you as his pigeon. When they pause, after you
gently interrupt them, start reading. While
the world is reading Lies
and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right and
The
Da Vinci Code, you are a step ahead, considering deeper topics, The
Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?. What is your purpose? Your
purpose, in the situation with telemarketers, is to lift up great literature for
the sake of improving a few of their lives.
What
should you read? The classics are a good place to start. The
Riverside Shakespeare will give you some excellent passages from "Romeo and
Juliet", "King Lear" and "Hamlet." "To be or not to be," ponders Hamlet as he
considers his own mortality. Read with vigor. A
favorite of mine is either the beginning or ending of Edgar Allan Poes "Tell Tale
Heart," which youll find in Complete
Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. "TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully
nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?" You can feel the
excitement. Share that excitement with the telemarketer. As
the holiday time approaches, bring the right spirit into things, and read Luke
2:8-14 from the King James Bible. Verse nine will somber up the call, "And, lo,
the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about
them: and they were sore afraid." Listen to KJV
Audio Bible Dramatized to remind you what Gods Word can do to a virulent phone
salesperson. If
that doesnt work, break out the thick books. War
and Peace will calm the beast within the caller. Moby
Dick is a good choice too. For the more ambitious of you, A
Concise History of Hungary will enlighten the listener. If
thats not your style, thats OK. Your goal is to enrich their lives. Almost any
literary genre will do. Shel Silversteins The
Giving Tree, or Dr. Seuss Green
Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) will do fine. If
you are a product of the cha-cha music, martinis and lava lamp world, you can
bring him your world with Tiki
Drinks This
is Why
They are reading books like these below. You need to help them. It is a civic
duty, like helping out the Salvation Army, except with a literacy goal. *
Stephan
Schiffmans Telesales: Americas #1 Corporate Sales Trainer Shows You How to Boost
Your Phone Sales
* Motivating
With Sales Contests: The Complete Guide to Motivating Your Telephone Professionals
With Contests That Produce Record-Braking Results
* Selling
by Phone: How to Reach and Sell to Customers in the Nineties
* The
Unfair Advantage: Practical applications of psychological selling skills (NLP) Bring
all of your passion. Reading to the caller is your catharsis, your weapon and
his literary redemption. Anthony
Trendl
editor Hungarianbookstore.com
hungarianbookstore.com Other
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Let
me admit that the CDs here are only funny once, and some of the writing in these
books missed the editor. However, anyone serious about helping a telemarketers
reeducation should be aware of the others on the subject. Telescams
exposed : how telemarketers target the elderly : hearing before the Special Committee
on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, Washington,
DC, March 6, 1996
This is a serious examination of the issue, now out of
print. How
to Get Rid of Telemarketers and Other Responses: How to Handy Responses You Dont
Have to Think of Jim
Florentine Is Terrorizing Telemarketers Revenge
on the Telemarketers, Round One Telephone
Pirates: The 99% True Confession of a Reformed Telemarketer A
Wake Up Call for Telemarketers | 
