Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Friday, September 08, 2006 12:02:20 AM
***Note: When I am giving "tips," these will be things I have learned as personal life's experiences. While I am using them in the Beauprez campaign, I brought them to the campaign, the campaign didn't bring them to me.
I like to make campaign phone calls, and I am moderately good at it. Someone new to the campaign heard my telephone technique today and asked if I had ever been in sales. Well, I have been. I have written about my
Southwestern Co. experience.
In addition to that, I spent three years as a ROTC enrollment officer, which is a fancy term for recruiter. I was successful enough at that that I didn't get fired. Actually, my job was safe as I was the only officer willing to make phone calls.
Anyway, back to the tip: Everyone who makes phone calls gets hung up on, sometimes politely, but sometimes rudely. If you think about it, a person who hangs up rudely is trying to pass judgement on the caller, trying to shake him. I handle this by simply writing "rude hang up" on my call sheet. That is not really useful information to the campaign, but it does allow me to pass judgement on the caller, and be the last to pass judgement on the event. By the time I start dialing the next call, I have put the whole thing out of my mind.
This also works for walking precincts. Just write down what happened, and you are passing judgement on the person who was rude to you.