Re: Ambulance Chasing Scumbags

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Crash,

Can you send me your email again, I some questions for you.

Thanks,
Bob W.

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I've had retired cops work for me, but never using fear tactics...they
used
> their experience as detectives and the hands on installation training to
> sell for us. I made them work with my installers on several jobs before
> letting them go out on sales. I wanted them to know at least something
about
> what could be and couldn't be done (like fishing down an outside concrete
> wall when it wasn't firred out..stuff like that)
>
>
>
> "tourman" <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1172766502.877036.153890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Unfortunately, there are lots of examples of selling using the fear
> | factor. Both Brinks and ADT do it regularily on TV.....
> |
> | As far as hiring ex cops as sales reps, there is some evidence that
> | this works. I have a successful peer in the business in Ottawa who was
> | an Ottawa Police constable, and he tells me that he wins a lot of his
> | sales based on that fact alone, and he plays it for all it's worth. In
> | one instance, I know it worked, since I lost a competitive quote to
> | him, and the client told me straight out that my package was better,
> | but he felt more comfortable with the other guy because he was an ex
> | police officer.
> |
> | Go figure !!
> |
> | R.H.Campbell
> | Home Security Metal Products
> | www.homemetal.com
> | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> |
> |
> | On Mar 1, 10:30 am, "Bob La Londe" <nos...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | > "Roland Moore" <rol...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | >
> | > news:45e6e991$0$16678$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | > >I know a guy that built his entire business on that model. He was a
cop
> and
> | > >started his own business while still a cop. He chased every burglary
> report
> | > >he received (and his cop buddies told him about). He considers
himself
> a
> | > >very Christian and ethical man by the way. That is not my take on it
> | > >certainly. Now he is a retired cop but he is still in that mode, but
a
> | > >little differently. Everytime a new technology comes around (that he
> can't
> | > >understand) he tries to find other dealers to "help him understand"
the
> | > >item. He'll pull some crap to refer all of the leads he has for that
> item
> | > >to you. Once that referal lead stream reaches a certain level then he
> | > >thinks it is time "you showed him how to do it". We don't take his
> referals
> | > >and leave him to three doors and a motion trunk slamming (where even
> that
> | > >is over his head.) He has more accounts and more money than most
> (partly
> | >
> |
> |
> | >because he pays dirt low wages), but I think he feels himself struck
> | in the
> | > >tar pit of his own lack of technical ability and sinking in a world
> where
> | > >security integration is getting more and more technical and he isn't.
> | >
> | > More than once I've had it suggested to hire ex cops as sales reps.
> Never
> | > done it.  I prefer to follow a technical tactic instead where we sell
> stuff
> | > that works to people who want it.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Bob La Londe
> | > Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River
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