Back in high school, I used to work as a telemarketer part-time. This was for a pretty big and well known regional company, that had a good reputation and was on the BBB http://www.bbb.org/ list.
We were told to keep the customer on the line, interacting for as long as possible. If they were not interested, we were supposed to weasel more 'leads' out of them; meaning we asked them for the names/phone numbers of their friends that might be interested. This constitutes a business-relationship which we could exploit.
Another business-relationship was when we'd call everyone within 20-25 miles of our recent customer. The sales pitch went like: Hello, this is X calling from Y. Your neighbor, Z, living at Z has recently purchased our product and since we're in the area, we're offering special discounts....
We'd use their address and names to get their neighbors to start listening to us.
When we got somebody that was obnoxious, or just didnt like that we disturbed them, we'd often set them up to be called back in the next few hours. Asking for a supervisor most often yields a hang-up as well. What we were supposed to do is fill out a form stating that the customer didnt want to be called back but since it takes a second to press the 'next' button and a lot longer to fill out a form, virtually nobody was taken off.
Actually, even then I dont think it was possible to permanently remove yourself from our list - even with the form you'd get maybe a few months of respite but after a while, all these forms were just added back to our database. Although this was before the DNR, I cant imagine anything's changed.
Made Microsoft god?
Why do they suddenly decide to start pushing DRM when we've got millions of perfectly good monitors in use. The monitor manufacturers should be the ones phasing in DRM, NOT your OS. You want to get protection; fine build it into your monitor and start selling it. Good luck with that! Cause no one will bite.
Instead M$ is doing their work for them. And in the process will cost consumers millions of dollars worth of new monitors.
I smell collusion!
What's next, security-enabled mice/keyboards.
Oh no, you can't use that keyboard, its not 'secure' enough to run IE!
They're running a similar program at UM College Park http://www.oit.umd.edu/projects/musicservice// Supposedly, they let us download as many files as we want, except they'll expire in a few months when the 'free trial subscribtion' ends. There were even talks of having this program paid for by our tuition but luckily that got squashed.
'Services' like this are not going to work; people are just not as dumb as the RIAA and the gooneys that work for them believe they are, IMHO.
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Is he glib and superficially charming? - Is he a people-person?
Does he have a grandiose sense of self-worth? - Does he add value to the company?
Is he a pathological liar? - Does he keep the investors informed
Is he a con artist or master manipulator? - Does he attract new business?
When he harms other people, does he feel a lack of remorse or guilt? - Does he have what it takes to thrive in a competitive enviroment?
Does he have a shallow affect? - Does he let his emotions control his business decisions?
Is he callous and lacking in empathy? - Is he able to place the interests of the company first?
Does he fail to accept responsibility for his own actions? - My personal favorite - Is he able to look at the 'Big Picture'
We were told to keep the customer on the line, interacting for as long as possible. If they were not interested, we were supposed to weasel more 'leads' out of them; meaning we asked them for the names/phone numbers of their friends that might be interested. This constitutes a business-relationship which we could exploit.
Another business-relationship was when we'd call everyone within 20-25 miles of our recent customer. The sales pitch went like:
Hello, this is X calling from Y. Your neighbor, Z, living at Z has recently purchased our product and since we're in the area, we're offering special discounts....
We'd use their address and names to get their neighbors to start listening to us.
When we got somebody that was obnoxious, or just didnt like that we disturbed them, we'd often set them up to be called back in the next few hours. Asking for a supervisor most often yields a hang-up as well. What we were supposed to do is fill out a form stating that the customer didnt want to be called back but since it takes a second to press the 'next' button and a lot longer to fill out a form, virtually nobody was taken off.
Actually, even then I dont think it was possible to permanently remove yourself from our list - even with the form you'd get maybe a few months of respite but after a while, all these forms were just added back to our database. Although this was before the DNR, I cant imagine anything's changed.
Why do they suddenly decide to start pushing DRM when we've got millions of perfectly good monitors in use. The monitor manufacturers should be the ones phasing in DRM, NOT your OS. You want to get protection; fine build it into your monitor and start selling it.
Good luck with that! Cause no one will bite.
Instead M$ is doing their work for them. And in the process will cost consumers millions of dollars worth of new monitors.
I smell collusion!
What's next, security-enabled mice/keyboards.
Oh no, you can't use that keyboard, its not 'secure' enough to run IE!
Supposedly, they let us download as many files as we want, except they'll expire in a few months when the 'free trial subscribtion' ends. There were even talks of having this program paid for by our tuition but luckily that got squashed.
'Services' like this are not going to work; people are just not as dumb as the RIAA and the gooneys that work for them believe they are, IMHO.