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Embroidery => General Embroidery => Topic started by: SteveS on March 27, 2020, 02:45:35 PM

Title: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: SteveS on March 27, 2020, 02:45:35 PM
You know what COVID-19 hasn't changed?

All the fly by night digitizing offers via email or phone call. Nothing will rid the world of those. Not pandemics, not nuclear war, not anything. The planet could be completely dead and those emails would still fly. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: ebscreen on March 27, 2020, 03:00:20 PM
Haha for real. Planet could just be left with cockroaches and Twinkies and someone would be calling for the "person in charge of graphics".
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: GraphicDisorder on March 27, 2020, 03:06:45 PM
I don't answer the phone so never had one of those calls. But they still email now and then. I block them as they come in which I find slows it down. I also subscribe each of them to a few porn news letters.

That's a joke, maybe?
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: SteveS on March 27, 2020, 03:10:15 PM
Never thought about that, subscribing the emails to porn sites. The problem I have with that is that would be too time consuming because I would have to log into my Sophos Cloud account and allow access to those sites to do that. I block all that crap. Except for guns and knives stuff. :)
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: ebscreen on March 27, 2020, 03:27:15 PM
I'd rather see their activity as it's a pretty good barometer of our industry.
Less calls/emails = better.
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: dirkdiggler on March 27, 2020, 08:18:56 PM
I don't answer the phone so never had one of those calls. But they still email now and then. I block them as they come in which I find slows it down. I also subscribe each of them to a few porn news letters.

That's a joke, maybe?

Great idea!
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: Homer on March 27, 2020, 09:17:31 PM
I don't answer the phone so never had one of those calls. But they still email now and then. I block them as they come in which I find slows it down. I also subscribe each of them to a few porn news letters.

That's a joke, maybe?

Wait. Wtf is a porn news letter?  Like who has syphlys and who got a boob job?   :o

You kids and your silly talking pictures.

I dont mind the calls, sometimes.  i usually screw with them, ask if they are the ones supposed to help me hide the body, speak up im not wearing any pants. Typical stuff i do on the daily.
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: TheGhost on March 28, 2020, 12:31:28 AM
Working from home and have both phone lines set up to go through a free google voice number to my cell. With google voice they have to state their name and wait longer for me to accept the call. 0 digitizing calls so far for me because of the extra step it seems. So lonely.
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: Audifox on March 31, 2020, 01:38:51 PM
What we do
When asked if they can speak to the manager for the embroidery or art dept. we just say no....  It's funny as hell ...  there is an awkward silence on the other end before they hang up  ;D
Title: Re: COVID-19 & Digitizing Solicitations
Post by: T Shirt Farmer on March 31, 2020, 03:49:21 PM
Installed VOIP a few month ago when you call you have 3 choices - place an order/ have order in progress/all other calls. The all other calls go to a message that repeats itself 3 times and then says mailbox full. BOOM problem solved, the office is much quieter, less interruptions, the system even transcribes the vm and sends a text with full message to my cell.