When Someone Calls Me On The Phone And Wants Me To Work Their Business, I Have Radar That Kicks In A

By Author: Maurine Dodge
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There is a trend in scam emails now where the scammer is using well known mega corporation logos and names. I personally have gotten this week, Coca Cola wants to give me a million dollars, (I wish), The Bank of England wants to give me 500,000 pounds (that is roughly a million dollars as well.), Wells Fargo has frozen my account since I had 3 failed login attempts...(unlikely since I do not have any accounts with them.)

I have also gotten all the usual run of the mill, I am the uncle, cousin, daughter, son, only surviving relative, dying of cancer benefactor pleas to run their money throu my account for a percentage. We pretty much KNOW these are scams. Nigeria was the big place to pull this, but now more and more places are coming up with similar scam artists operating around the globe.

I wrote to Coca Cola, Kraft foods and Wells Fargo about the scam emails I recieved using their good names, and they are putting into action what they can to find and capture the bad guys and that is all to the good. I was going to also contact the Bank Of England, but when I went to their contact information it was apparent ...
... they already knew about this as they have a full page explaining they are aware of these email scams and are doing what they can to counter them, and will not be responsible yada yada.

Even more offensive than all these obvious scams are the ones that I have been getting from online marketers who call me on the phone who apparently either don�t understand how credit cards work, or are naive enough to believe the crap they were told about how the credit card company only takes 2%. (seriously, this guy tried to tell me if I put the $2500.00 on my credit card to start up with his business opportunity, the credit card company would only take 2%.) Now those of you who have a credit card KNOW that the average interest charged which is usually compounded in some mysterious way that only math geniuses have any hope of understanding is more like 15% to 32% depending upon the card and the type of compounding they do.

When someone calls me on the phone and wants me to work their business, I have radar that kicks in and says to listen a bit, or shut this one down as it IS my nickle since I use my cell phone pretty much exclusively rather than have these shisters have any contact with my aging and ailing parents who have the land line.

The first shut them down now cue is when they tell me to :�put the start up cost� on a �credit card�. The first thing this tells me is they don�t give a hoot about my success or failure, they only care about getting sign ups and a downline, who they may or may not help to succeed. They might even have a very good program, but they are way to desparate for me to risk my finances with if they encourage the bad practice of spending money one does not have.

Another cue to shut �em down is when they don�t answer my cut to the chase questions like �what are the start up costs?� �can you email the information?� �is this audio available online?� but want me to listen to a 5-7-10 minute audio they will hook me up with, or they want to transfer me to a telephone conference. If they don�t want to tell me about the company on my terms, when it is my dime there are several possible reasons.
1. They do not know the answers and are afraid they will lose �the sale� and want to turn me over to someone who is more convincing
2. They KNOW the cost is prohibitive to begin with and want to sway me emotionally into making an ill advised snap judgement to an expenditure.

3. They don�t know how to ad-lib and give facts about a service, product that they supposedly believe in, all they know is how to read a script verbatim and any deviation causes them to get completely lost.

Their desparation to get sign ups, their attempt to sway me by asking questions they push towards their answer, the calling every day insead of listening when I have said I won�t charge an investment, if I do this it will be WHEN I have the money.. all lead me to the conclusion that while their product or service may be ok or even good, it is not selling well enough for them to quit pushing and just be enthusiastic about their opportunity.

I am enthusiastic about a business opportunity that I have recently started, it is going very well as a matter of fact. I do not EVER tell anyone they need to put ANYTHING on a credit card. What do I tell them? I tell them, we need to work from where you are. I tell them if you do not have an advertising budget, then we can do the free advertising, we can do the social sites etc. I also tell them this will take longer to build their business because that is the truth. I also tell them to plan out their finances to hopefully include some kind of advertising budget in the future and work towards being able to increast that budget as they can so they will get more results and better results.

The one thing all the gurus fail to tell you BEFORE you purchase their handy dandy do it all turn key system/product/e-book/business, is that advertising is essential. Yes there are some free ways to advertise, but they are not as effective as paid campaigns, and even the paid ones I have used have not been as effective as the one built into my business for me. (although this could change as I am trying out a couple of new ones as MY advertising budget increases to allow for such experimentation.)

You may have noticed that I don�t even mention what my business is in my articles. There is a good reason for that which I will share with you. The article sites pretty much ALL will reject an article if it is seen as a blatant ad rather than an informative article. I know my enthusiasm for my business shows. I also know that anyone who really wants to know about my business will find a way to contact me.