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A while back I was selling a $4000.00 internet marketing package. The company I worked for decided to hire someone to reverse market website owners in our target market. To send them an email inviting them to call me directly at which point I would quickly ask them if they had an interest in what I was offering. This kind of marketing is like walking in a mine field. Some people don’t mind being reverse marketed others really get angry.

Myself I get about four or five calls a day. I don’t really like it either. I don’t mind if someone gets my phone number and calls me. Sometimes I will listen. What I don’t like is when someone calls me and pretends they have an interest in what I am offering for twenty minutes and then begins to pitch me. That is horrible. But even so I just politely give a small speech regarding ethics and hang up.

As usual, I am taking you down another path, so let me get back to my story. Now this company that was emailing these websites would send one email in my name stating that we may have a common interest. That was it. When I got the call I immediately let them know who I was and asked if they were interested. If the answer was no, that’s okay, thank you bye. Now I would have the occasional irate person who would get upset when hit with this method of marketing. The company contracting my services, however, made an error and reverse marketed one of those very large vitamin selling organizations where everyone becomes one mind and one soul through the constant reinforcement of repetitive slogans said en masses. In short they are all brainwashed.

Not only did they send out about a thousand emails or so but they hit them at the time of their annual world convention. Needless to say it was more then I could handle so I just started to say I was no longer interested. When these people would hear that I was not interested, or was reverse marketing them, they would become so downright angry I just didn’t know how to handle it. As tough as I think I am, I was starting to crumble under a constant onslaught of angry grandmas.

They would begin every call so sweet, and by the time they hung up the phone they would be cussing at me like sailors and threatening me. I would go back and look at their email and they called me slime and other horrible names that I can’t repeat here. If they had not spoke to me yet they wished Gods blessings upon me. They posted into message boards giving my name and phone, calling me a liar and a cheat. I had drunks from the convention floor call me at midnight and early morning. Weeks later, I would still have the odd late night drunk call me.

It is now over two months later and they still are calling me. Some of the same ones who were so horrible now call me back. When they call me the second time they get even angrier that I am still not interested. They actually don’t remember speaking with me the first time.

Here is a quote from a recent email I received. I didn’t even speak to this guy he just heard about me from someone else.

“That’s what we call a “LEECH”.
You don’t deserve to be part of our group or company.”

Should I tell them all,

” Mia culpa, please forgive me. Please stop dragging my reputation through the mud and think of my family please; I’m begging you make it stop.”

Actually, I’m tougher then that. Unlike an organization that has people selling overpriced vitamins, lying about income to themselves and to their friends, treating people to a convention on their members own money, and making false claims regarding life extending miracle cures not substantiated by the FDA, all I every wanted to do was see some people put some real money in their pocket. My Pocket too of course.

The worst sin this organization commits far out weighs my transgressions. They pay these people pennies. That’s why they got so angry when the first email they received after a year of paying their website fees turned out to be me.

You know what, I really am sorry. I apologize. I will never do it again.

So now if you call me again at midnight, despite my previous unwashed sins, I am going to preach the good word to you until you buy from me or hang up the phone. After all it’s your dime.

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