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    #21
    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    In order to get one client for you, they may well have to make over 200 calls. And to get the candidates for the client, they may have to make a fair few calls as well. Maybe 0.5% of the calls make actually produce a result. Having said that, they're still all lazy, greedy, stupid, untrustworthy scum.
    Only agents who play the percentages do that. What I would call a proper agent will make maybe 3 or at a push 4 calls to place you.

    Yet to be in a position to make those 3 or 4 calls they've had to work quite hard.
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
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      #22
      Originally posted by threaded View Post
      Only agents who play the percentages do that. What I would call a proper agent will make maybe 3 or at a push 4 calls to place you.

      Yet to be in a position to make those 3 or 4 calls they've had to work quite hard.
      Threaded - are you ok? You didn't post a link to your youtube video! [edit] other than in your signature... come on man - don't slack now. [/edit]

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        #23
        Originally posted by threaded View Post
        Only agents who play the percentages do that. What I would call a proper agent will make maybe 3 or at a push 4 calls to place you.

        Yet to be in a position to make those 3 or 4 calls they've had to work quite hard.
        You're slipping - there was no link there to YouTube
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          #24
          Originally posted by realityhack View Post
          Threaded - are you ok? You didn't post a link to your youtube video!
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          You're slipping - there was no link there to YouTube
          Spooky - are you me?
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            #25
            Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
            Apart from DA, who we love.
            yeah right!!!

            btw - I always thought it was some sort of pasta. Some sort of gnochi stuff.
            The pope is a tard.

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              #26
              Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
              Spooky - are you me?
              Does it matter? We're both Spartacus anyway.

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                #27
                Originally posted by SallyAnne View Post
                yeah right!!!

                btw - I always thought it was some sort of pasta. Some sort of gnochi stuff.
                gnocchi
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                  #28
                  You didn't see it?
                  Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                  threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                    I don't think I said that working on a percentage basis was not doing well. Maybe it's in the tiny invisible writing, but I've just re-read it, and I can't see it there.

                    I'm sure that you're right though, whatever your point is.
                    Always ready to help the disabled.

                    The boxy thing at the top shows what is quoted. "then they don't" is the specific place where you said that a £10/hr mark-up isn't doing very well.

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