{"id":238,"date":"2011-12-07T10:48:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-12-07T10:52:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:52:25","slug":"why-not-just-be-honest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2011\/12\/07\/why-not-just-be-honest\/","title":{"rendered":"Why not just be honest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thank you for calling. Your business is important to us, but we really don&#8217;t want to talk to you, so please go to our website. It&#8217;s a great website that makes perfect sense to us, because we use it all the time, but will confuse the heck out of you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course we could talk you through it, but &#8230; he he &#8230; we don&#8217;t want to talk to you. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we haven&#8217;t yet convinced you to get off the phone and go to our website, you can sit through this horrible automated voice system. We know it doesn&#8217;t make any sense &#8212; that the categories don&#8217;t cover everything you want to do, that they overlap, that we use confusing terms and all that. We designed it that way because we want you to <b>give up and go to our website<\/b>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then after you use the website it says, &#8220;sorry, there&#8217;s something wrong with your request, please call our friendly customer service hotline at [the number you already called].&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thank you for calling. Your business is important to us, but we really don&#8217;t want to talk to you, so please go to our website. It&#8217;s a great website that makes perfect sense to us, because we use it all the time, but will confuse the heck out of you. &#8220;Of course we could talk &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2011\/12\/07\/why-not-just-be-honest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Why not just be honest?&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}