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I will not push 1 to be a star on the front page of Google!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Cornerstone Business Group Inc 0225086119

This is a public service announcement to all the companies that call me with an automated message to make sure I end up on the front page of Google, that my Google-Yahoo-Bing business page is correct or anything else - stop calling.  I will never use your service, period! 

I don't talk to computer automated messages, and I will not push 1 to be a star on the front page of Google.  I won't even push 100 to be a total dufus on the 100th page of Google.  Feel free to have your automated computer message call my fax machine.  It gets lonely now that I've switched to a Internet-based fax service. 

If you thought it saved you money, saved time or saved the world to have a computer automated message call me you were way off base.  I'm old school.  I actually like to talk to people.  On second thought, don't have your people call my people either.  On a third note, thanks for saving the world from the Mayan calendar apocalypse.  If that comes up again, we'll call you.

Comments(9)

John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque Homes Realty - Albuquerque, NM
Honesty, Integrity, Results, Experienced. HIRE Me!

Suggested... Now on with a very Merry Christmas to you and yours Mike.

Dec 24, 2012 01:08 AM
Jordon Wheeler
The Jordon Wheeler Group - Fairburn, GA
J W Group Real Estate Sales and Service

Hey Mike,

All of my solicitations come through email.  I need to do an auto reply to those folks.  Good posts and I hope they get your message.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!

Dec 24, 2012 01:09 AM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV
Cornerstone Business Group Inc - Winchester, VA
Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

Thanks, John.  Just heading out for the first of a series of festive eating binges.  I hope you and Debbie have a wonderful Christmas.

I do get those too, Jordon.  Fortunately, most of those go to the spam folder.  Those darn phone calls at O Dark Thirty are the annoying ones.  Have a great Christmas!

Dec 24, 2012 01:15 AM
Beth and Richard Witt
New York, NY
The best Retired Brokers !!!!

Amen to that!!! Hoping some of those folks will read your post and listen... Merry Christmas to you and yours Mike...

Dec 24, 2012 01:15 AM
Lisa Von Domek
Lisa Von Domek Team - Dallas, TX
....Experience Isn't Expensive.... It's Priceless!

Good morning Mike,

Oh no, this is a new one that hasn't made it to me yet.  Thanks for the warning on the latest "robo" calls.

Merry Christmas!

Dec 24, 2012 01:16 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Mike - While I truly despise telemarketers, it's nothing personal - I know they're real people with really crappy jobs. But the automated messages generate a much higher level of rage, along with frustration that there's no way to deal with it.

Dec 24, 2012 01:19 AM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV
Cornerstone Business Group Inc - Winchester, VA
Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

Wouldn't that be nice, Beth.  I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

Oh, they're looking for your number, Lisa.  Have a great Christmas!

I think that's the way they're getting around the do not call list, Dick.  I give them 1 second.  That's it.  I hope you and Mary have a wonderful Christmas.

Dec 24, 2012 01:24 AM
Andrea Bedard
Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860 - Silver Spring, MD
Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

Hi Mike, very, very annoying! To top it off .. some of them are now displaying local numbers even though they are sitting in some other state.. or country .. That makes me want to scream! But I won't, I take 3 deep breaths instead (learned that from Tucker the Turtle courtesy of Angeline's pre-school) and hang up.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Dec 24, 2012 06:10 AM
Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV
Cornerstone Business Group Inc - Winchester, VA
Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

Thank you, Andrea.  We have what we call the 1 second rule in the office.  If we pick the phone up and no one speaks for 1 second, we hang up.  I might stretch it to 2, but that's about it.  Most recordings start right away.  The others that linger are salesmen calling to sell me something I don't want, for a price I'm not willing to pay, at a time I can't use it.   So, 1, 2, bye. 

I hope the Bedard family has a marvelous Christmas.

Dec 24, 2012 06:53 AM