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Imagine that for whatever reason you are a telemarketer and you call my home phone number.

I ignore the call from an unknown phone number and it goes to the answering machine*, and I can hear you as I screen. Keeping in mind that if you want me to pick up, you would probably have to capture my attention within the first five seconds of speaking.  What product or service might you be selling, and what might you say to pull me in?



*Just for the purposes of this question, only a landline phone gives me the opportunity to screen as opposed to the call going to voicemail.
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Posted - April 9, 2021

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  • 488
    You don't want to be missing this, do you?

      April 11, 2021 12:42 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

     

      Ok, you’ve convinced me! Listen, meet me in 90 minutes just off the Interstate, about five miles outside of town, there’s this little side road that leads to a tiny place I know . . .


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      April 11, 2021 12:59 PM MDT
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  • 488
      April 12, 2021 12:01 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      Ok, don’t hang up; the heavy breathing works like GPS for me, so I’ll hone in on it and find you in no time!
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      April 12, 2021 12:17 PM MDT
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  • 488
    :D 

      April 12, 2021 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      There’s an annoying little warning voice that keeps going off in my head, but I just ignore it. Besides, it’s talking to the wrong head. Grrrrrrr. 



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      April 12, 2021 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 488
      April 13, 2021 11:33 AM MDT
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  • 52903

     

      Dodged THAT bullet! Whew!
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      April 13, 2021 1:03 PM MDT
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