Premium-rate
phone line script
Client:
ImaginAction, Stanmore, Middlesex
Audience:
The not-quite-mystically-inclined (preferably with access to an office
phone)
Brief:
Keep'em hanging on, but give them value for their money.
THE
BIORHYTHM LINE
Hello, and thank
you for calling the Biorhythm Line.
Whether you're
interested in your own well-being, or somebody else's, be it physical,
intellectual or emotional …
The information
you are about to receive will help you understand the influence biorhythms
have on all of us …
And with that
understanding, you can deal more easily with people around you …
And plan your
life for maximum effectiveness.
Now, to work
out the current position of those biorhythm cycles, all you have to
give us is a date of birth, so the computer can make its calculations.
There are two
ways of telling the computer that date …
The first is
to key in the numbers directly if you have a pulse-tone telephone
…
So if you have
a pulse-tone telephone, please let the computer know by pressing the
zero key … now.
(Let's assume the listener has a pulse-tone phone, and continue)
What the computer needs is a series of six digits, the way you see
your date of birth on your driving license …
The first two
digits for the day of the month …
The middle two
digits for the month itself …
And the last
two digits for the year.
(Here follows a boring bit telling the listener which numbers to
key in, and when. Let's cut to the finish.)
What we'll do is describe each choice again and leave a gap before
going on to the next one.
If you wish to
take that choice, all you have to so is say "yes, please"
during that gap, otherwise say nothing until you get to the choice
you want,
If you don't
make any choice, we'd like to thank you for using this service.
We hope that
it's been of benefit to yourself and those and ask you to tell your
friends and colleagues about us.
So, here are
the choices …
… a report
for someone else today …
… a report
for yourself for any day in any year between 1920 and 2001 …
… a report
for someone else for any day in any year between 1920 and 2001 …
… the introductory
report which gives you the basics of biorhythms …
… or the
more detailed report.