As a telemarketer, I am fully aware of how much people hate me. You would not believe how many angry responses I get when I call people up around dinnertime. I know that what I am doing a somewhat inconsiderate, but the American public has to understand something ? if telemarketing didn’t work, we wouldn’t do it. We use telemarketing lists to target the most likely clients, but ultimately it all comes down to making a lot of cold calls. If you have a thick skin and a charming demeanor, you can sell ice to an Eskimo with or without telemarketing call lists. If not, you’ll probably get out of the business pretty quickly. Either way, I don’t feel too bad about what I do most of the time. After all, if you really hate me, you only have to put up with me for long enough to hang up the phone.
It is pretty tough being a telemarketer. The first couple months that I was doing it, I was depressed all the time. I knew that the people who were shouting at me would never meet me, and would probably like me if they did meet me, but it did not make things any better. Taking all that abuse takes its toll on you until you learn to distance yourself from it. One of the toughest things about telemarketing is that you don’t have control over who you’re calling. The company is responsible for the telemarketing lists. You don’t make the decisions. If they have bad telemarketing lists, you might get shouted at all evening. If they have good ones, you might make a killing even if you are new to the business. Either way, it is usually out of your hands.
The invention of the telemarketing no call list under popular pressure from the American public has only made things more difficult. You see, often you are responsible for your own no-call list. Rather than incorporating it with the regular telemarketing list, they leave them as two separate items for some reason. That means that you have to double check your telemarketing lists as you are making your phone calls. Not only does this take longer, but it is a poor system for catching stray calls before they go out. Basically, if you are at it for long enough you are bound to call someone on the telemarketing no call lists.
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