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Are you guys ready to phone bank? Text? Send messages on Facebook? (Original Post) jillan Mar 2016 OP
I've been wanting to phone bank for a few weeks now New Earth Mar 2016 #1
Sign up for texting. I got a text the other day reminding me of our primary next week. jillan Mar 2016 #2
I'm texting too. onecaliberal Mar 2016 #3
Maybe I will try that. New Earth Mar 2016 #4
Back when I was a teenager (60 now) I did phone sales. This is how I was taught. jillan Mar 2016 #7
I do phone sales now! I have no excuse! Aquavit Mar 2016 #12
jillian do you sign up for texting Nite Owl Mar 2016 #9
Here is the link :) jillan Mar 2016 #11
TY Nite Owl Mar 2016 #13
Entry level phone banking is extremely easy and conflict free (for the most part) Cassiopeia Mar 2016 #6
Oh ok New Earth Mar 2016 #8
yes!!! Rosa Luxemburg Mar 2016 #5
absolutely grasswire Mar 2016 #10

New Earth

(9,745 posts)
1. I've been wanting to phone bank for a few weeks now
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:37 PM
Mar 2016

but honestly, I am afraid I will get very emotional. Every time I go to the page to sign up, I feel myself choke up. I'll cry on the phone. LOL. Not sure what to do!

New Earth

(9,745 posts)
4. Maybe I will try that.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:41 PM
Mar 2016

Thanks I'd still love to make the calls though. Just have bad stage fright.

jillan

(39,451 posts)
7. Back when I was a teenager (60 now) I did phone sales. This is how I was taught.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:45 PM
Mar 2016

Sit in front of a mirror - ya - grab a chair and sit in your bathroom

Look at yourself in the mirror while you talk and SMILE! Keep looking at yourself smiling while you are on the phone.
You could probably get the script from that site I posted. If it is there, practice while looking in the mirror.

Aquavit

(488 posts)
12. I do phone sales now! I have no excuse!
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 11:06 PM
Mar 2016

Damn it, I'm signing up to phone bank. There's no good reason I haven't done it yet!

Nite Owl

(11,303 posts)
9. jillian do you sign up for texting
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:48 PM
Mar 2016

on Bernie's web site? Do they send you the names and numbers?
I can't phone bank because am in a wheelchair and dependent on someone to drive me to the calling site. Love to canvas but not this cycle.

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
6. Entry level phone banking is extremely easy and conflict free (for the most part)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:43 PM
Mar 2016

You're just fishing for voters that may be leaning towards Bernie and recording the info.

Then someone more experienced will call that person you notated to try and motivate them towards Bernie.

Basically entry level is 3 simple questions, all prompted by the PC, with you making a notation. No selling or trying to sell Bernie. If they get hostile you hang up, but your spiel is so short the person you're calling doesn't have the time to get wound up into a rant or rage.

New Earth

(9,745 posts)
8. Oh ok
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 10:48 PM
Mar 2016

For some reason I thought I'd have to try and motivate them myself. I'm a terrible salesperson, but for Bernie I'd be so passionate I'd either cry (good cry) while talking about him or get pissed off and hang up on them LOL. Maybe I will try it then!

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