"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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Noon-Air wrote:
Its marketing 101.... *any* order or correspondence gets you on their
mailing list. Same thing with my customers.... I always gat a name,
address,
and phone number immediately after "Hello". From then on out, for up to 5
years, they are in my database and get fliers, mailers, post cards, etc
with
the special de-jour. One of the best tricks is to send out cards to *all*
of
the folks in the data base with a discount coupon on renewal of their
service agreement. You say you don't have a service agreement?? , no
problem, we will give you the discount as an "introductory offer", when
can
we schedule you for a complete heating/cooling system perfoemance
evaluation?
It works a whole lot better than folks think.... and you still got the
catalog to look through for your next order :-)
-n6ojn
Steve @ Noon-Air Heating & A/C
Life is what happens while you were making other plans
That sounds like a local HVAC company that called me 35 times in one
week, insisting that I "Needed" their "Central air tune-up special" I
told them the fist 34 times that I didn't even have a window air
conditioner, let alone a central air system and not to call me and tie
up my business phone line again. The last time she called, I asked her
how many phone lines they had. The woman wanted to know why, so I told
her that if I got one more call that I was going to contact a lot of
people to have them make repeated calls about their services, then to
have them come out to give a price on a new central air system before
telling them they had changed their minds. She yelled that it was
harassment. I laughed and told her, "Now you know how I feel!", and
hung up. They never called me back.
Sorry you got caught in the telemarketing loop.... I only do mail-outs....
and even then at the most only once a month.... The only time I call is the
the night before a scheduled appointment, and again when I am enroute. There
used to be an HVAC company here that did the same telemarketing routine that
you got... their agreements were'nt worth the paper they were written on,
and they had done more damage to the folks systems than they repaired. I
gained a lot of customers from them. FWIW, I have *never* done a "tune-up"
special..... Thats a real good way to end up on Dateline, or 60 Minutes.
:-)
You only have *ONE* DD214?? I have 4 of them... did 22 years in the US Coast
Guard. I just hung around until it wasn't no fun no more :-)
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.
Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida