http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers Opinions. Commentary. News. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:23:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-74497 Buzz Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:21:26 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-74497 Sorry, Lewis, but you do not have the the "basic right" to knock on MY door. My property is my private property on which I have a TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT sign prominently displayed. I have followed through twice already with door-to-door solicitors who flagrantly disregarded my legal warning. You knock on my door with your sleazy snakeoil pitch, and you'll be number three. Sorry, Lewis, but you do not have the the “basic right” to knock on MY door. My property is my private property on which I have a TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT sign prominently displayed. I have followed through twice already with door-to-door solicitors who flagrantly disregarded my legal warning. You knock on my door with your sleazy snakeoil pitch, and you’ll be number three.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27082 lewis Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:12:26 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27082 Allen, I have been a door to door salesperson for over 20 years. I have trained many others and in the past 5 years have generated over 100,000 new customers for other businesses "my clients" with this method of marketing. I think it is valuable to recognize that this method of marketing is the grandfather of all other methods. Any method of marketing has a few basic features that have their roots in the understanding of human influence. How do people really make buying decisions. It is also important to remember that the basic right of people to knock on the doors of other people to communicate something commercially or otherwise is extremely important to respect and protect. (That is if you like freedom of course...) As for your method of repelling the pesky salespeople at the door, I have another idea you may consider.......Next time, answer the door and listen carefully to what the salesperson has to say, decide if there is a benefit to you and make a choice based on the value and credibility of what they have to offer and not based on the method of delivery. Being a marketing genius yourself you must know that a wise man learns more from a fool than a fool learns from a wise man. Maybe, just maybe your next big marketing brakthrough might come from what you learn from the door to door salesperson. respectfully yours Lewis Allen,
I have been a door to door salesperson for over 20 years. I have trained many others and in the past 5 years have generated over 100,000 new customers for other businesses “my clients” with this method of marketing. I think it is valuable to recognize that this method of marketing is the grandfather of all other methods. Any method of marketing has a few basic features that have their roots in the understanding of human influence. How do people really make buying decisions. It is also important to remember that the basic right of people to knock on the doors of other people to communicate something commercially or otherwise is extremely important to respect and protect. (That is if you like freedom of course…) As for your method of repelling the pesky salespeople at the door, I have another idea you may consider…….Next time, answer the door and listen carefully to what the salesperson has to say, decide if there is a benefit to you and make a choice based on the value and credibility of what they have to offer and not based on the method of delivery. Being a marketing genius yourself you must know that a wise man learns more from a fool than a fool learns from a wise man. Maybe, just maybe your next big marketing brakthrough might come from what you learn from the door to door salesperson.
respectfully yours
Lewis

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27081 nan yates Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:11:20 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27081 Does anyone know how to get rid of the marketers that come by your business? Does anyone know how to get rid of the marketers that come by your business?

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27080 Jeanster Tue, 15 May 2007 22:25:01 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27080 I hate door-to-door solicitations. My home is my sanctuary, and I highly resent the intrusion. I screen all my telephone calls with my answering machine. And when someone I don't know knocks on my door I don't answer. I'm going to make a "No Soliciting" sign for my front door. I hate door-to-door solicitations. My home is my sanctuary, and I highly resent the intrusion. I screen all my telephone calls with my answering machine. And when someone I don’t know knocks on my door I don’t answer. I’m going to make a “No Soliciting” sign for my front door.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27079 Ann Handley Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:49:30 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27079 Another solution: benign but nonetheless barky dogs. The dogs go nuts with the ding of the doorbell -- and between the noise and chaos, unwanted visitors tend to flee. Usually I don't even have to ask, "So -- just in case anything happens -- you're up to date on your shots, right?" Another solution: benign but nonetheless barky dogs. The dogs go nuts with the ding of the doorbell — and between the noise and chaos, unwanted visitors tend to flee. Usually I don’t even have to ask, “So — just in case anything happens — you’re up to date on your shots, right?”

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27078 Allen Weiss Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:44:53 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27078 Hi Nedra That's a tough one..I've been in a similar situation and once you start to buy into the pitch, you have to be rude to pull out (something I won't do). I'll need to think about another strategy that might work...if I do, I'll post it here. Hi Nedra
That’s a tough one..I’ve been in a similar situation and once you start to buy into the pitch, you have to be rude to pull out (something I won’t do). I’ll need to think about another strategy that might work…if I do, I’ll post it here.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27077 Nedra Weinreich Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:31:31 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27077 I wish I had the acting skills to pull that off, just to see how they react! We seem to have vanloads of inner city kids dropped off in our neighborhood periodically to sell magazine subscriptions, supposedly as part of a work experience program. While I don't usually give door-to-door solicitors a chance to get past "hello," I happened to be in the front yard with my daughter with no way to politely extricate myself from the young woman with the sob story about being a single mom trying to build her sales skills to move out of poverty. By the time she left, I agreed to buy a single magazine subscription that I didn't need at 3 times the normal price. Once they get you to engage with them, it's so much harder to close the door in their faces. Lesson learned. I wish I had the acting skills to pull that off, just to see how they react!
We seem to have vanloads of inner city kids dropped off in our neighborhood periodically to sell magazine subscriptions, supposedly as part of a work experience program. While I don’t usually give door-to-door solicitors a chance to get past “hello,” I happened to be in the front yard with my daughter with no way to politely extricate myself from the young woman with the sob story about being a single mom trying to build her sales skills to move out of poverty. By the time she left, I agreed to buy a single magazine subscription that I didn’t need at 3 times the normal price. Once they get you to engage with them, it’s so much harder to close the door in their faces. Lesson learned.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27076 Elaine Fogel Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:59:54 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27076 Our homes are supposed to be our retreats from the world, our last vestige of privacy, hence the do-not-call list. Door-to-door solicitations are an infringement of that space. Maybe in the 50's, door-to-door salesmen carrying Fuller brushes or saleswomen peddling cosmetics found success with homemakers who welcomed the distraction from laundry and the kids. But this is a different world. We are bombarded with thousands of marketing messages daily. I want to be left alone at home. I recommend printing an embossed sign at the nearest business store that says, "No solicitations, please." Maybe then you won't need your act any longer, Allen. :) Our homes are supposed to be our retreats from the world, our last vestige of privacy, hence the do-not-call list. Door-to-door solicitations are an infringement of that space.
Maybe in the 50’s, door-to-door salesmen carrying Fuller brushes or saleswomen peddling cosmetics found success with homemakers who welcomed the distraction from laundry and the kids. But this is a different world.
We are bombarded with thousands of marketing messages daily. I want to be left alone at home. I recommend printing an embossed sign at the nearest business store that says, “No solicitations, please.” Maybe then you won’t need your act any longer, Allen.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27075 Bill Gammell Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:48:36 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27075 Allen, I am by no means a door-to-door solicitor, but I might become one just to stop by your house and see your "act". Anyway, thanks for the good idea and the laugh today! Allen,
I am by no means a door-to-door solicitor, but I might become one just to stop by your house and see your “act”. Anyway, thanks for the good idea and the laugh today!

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27074 KermitFan Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:57:22 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27074 I'm all for a do not knock list for door-to-door marketing. Can we also include solicitations like leaving pizza menus on my doorstep, or even worse yet: phone books! If I could figure out how to get off of the annual phone book delivery list, I would be one happy camper! Thanks for a great post. I’m all for a do not knock list for door-to-door marketing. Can we also include solicitations like leaving pizza menus on my doorstep, or even worse yet: phone books! If I could figure out how to get off of the annual phone book delivery list, I would be one happy camper!
Thanks for a great post.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27073 John Whiteside Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:45:01 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27073 I generally just politely say, "No thank you," and close the door. No engagement, just a polite good-bye. There is one guy, however, who periodically drives through my neighborhood selling what he says a gourmet steaks off the back of his truck. When I said not, he got irate and yelled at me. Putz. Funny thing is, if he'd been nice, and then one of my neighbors said, "Oh, it's good stuff" and gave me some kind of recommendation, I might have said yes in the future. (This is Texas, you gotta have some meat handy for impromptu grilling!) But after that - not a chance. I generally just politely say, “No thank you,” and close the door. No engagement, just a polite good-bye.
There is one guy, however, who periodically drives through my neighborhood selling what he says a gourmet steaks off the back of his truck. When I said not, he got irate and yelled at me. Putz.
Funny thing is, if he’d been nice, and then one of my neighbors said, “Oh, it’s good stuff” and gave me some kind of recommendation, I might have said yes in the future. (This is Texas, you gotta have some meat handy for impromptu grilling!) But after that – not a chance.

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27072 Allen Weiss Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27072 hi all, i agree that there should be a do-not-call list for door-to-door, but until then, I guess we need to devise tactics on our own. I used to shut the door, but I've found my current tactic to be much more fun :) hi all,
i agree that there should be a do-not-call list for door-to-door, but until then, I guess we need to devise tactics on our own. I used to shut the door, but I’ve found my current tactic to be much more fun

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27071 Lewis Green Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:46:58 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27071 Allen, I haven't faced a door-to-door solicitor (marketer?) in decades and am surprised they still exist. But if one appeared, my tactic would remain the same as that used with telephone solicitations: "I'm not interested" and then hang up (shut the door). Allen,
I haven’t faced a door-to-door solicitor (marketer?) in decades and am surprised they still exist. But if one appeared, my tactic would remain the same as that used with telephone solicitations: “I’m not interested” and then hang up (shut the door).

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27070 Claire Ratushny Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:29:37 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27070 Hi Alan, Your post got a chuckle out of me. Haven't we all had these hard-sell experiences at our front doors? My question is a very simple one: if we can put our names on a national "no-call list" for solicitation, why can't we also have a national "no-call on list" to prevent marketers from hitting on us in our homes? Wouldn't that be an immense boon to all of us when we arrive home after a long day at work so we can enjoy our dinners in peace? Hi Alan,
Your post got a chuckle out of me. Haven’t we all had these hard-sell experiences at our front doors?
My question is a very simple one: if we can put our names on a national “no-call list” for solicitation, why can’t we also have a national “no-call on list” to prevent marketers from hitting on us in our homes?
Wouldn’t that be an immense boon to all of us when we arrive home after a long day at work so we can enjoy our dinners in peace?

]]> http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/comment-page-1/#comment-27069 Harry Hallman Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:39:57 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/how-to-get-rid-of-certain-marketers/#comment-27069 Ummm. I agree and I feel the same about telephone solicitation but I spend 0 time talking to them. If I get a call from someone I don't know I don't answer it or I answer and hang up immediately. I have been working out of my home office for a year now and when anyone, who I do not expect, rings the bell I ignore it. Door to door solicitation is dead and should be buried. Ummm. I agree and I feel the same about telephone solicitation but I spend 0 time talking to them. If I get a call from someone I don’t know I don’t answer it or I answer and hang up immediately.
I have been working out of my home office for a year now and when anyone, who I do not expect, rings the bell I ignore it. Door to door solicitation is dead and should be buried.

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