We did that at our last company, Jane was our non-existant Marketing
manager. What was funny was that after a year or so, we started getting
calls saying "I spoke to Jane last week and she asked me to call today"
or "I just spoke with her a minute ago", always felt like saying that
person does not exist, the person on the voice mail is the bosses
daughter but I never did :)
Reading Jane's e-mails were funny too, lots of "pleasure speaking with
you earlier". I always had a crush on Jane, she was pretty cute but
that was just a picture we purchased off a stock picture website to put
on our website.
mike
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 13:41 -0600, Pat Horne wrote:
> I knew a fellow years ago who volunteered at a Suicide prevention hot
> line. Everyone there used a fake name. I can understand that more than I
> can a sales person doing it.
>
> I also know the owner of a business who tells sales people who cold call
> him that they need to speak with Mr. James, who isn't there at the
> moment. Any calls that come in for Mr. James are told that he is not
> there. This continues a few times until they give up. His rationale is
> that if a cold caller gets a real name that they spread it around to
> other cold callers, but if they don't get through to the person "in
> charge", they don't.
>
> Peace,
> Pat
>
> Thusly spake Mark J Bradakis, On 3/3/2010 1:15 PM:
> > Such a tactic can also be used to track advertising. If they call for
> > Mr. Smith,
> > they heard the ad on the radio. If they call for Mr. Jones, they saw
> > an ad in
> > the paper. If they call for Mr. Bradakis, it is a wrong number ;-)
> >
> > mjb.
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