The Story of my e-dad, Parthiv Shah and his love affair with the telephone

• in the elementary school when the teacher asked you what you want to be when you grow up... no one said 'I want to be a telemarketer and I will be the best telemarketer ever.' But my e-dad is different. Not only he very GOOD on telephone, he actually ENJOYS the ritual. "Do the research, make the call, talk, type notes, hang up, select appropriate call disposition tab, schedule next call and move to next call". He has made over ten-thousand calls in his career. 

  Here is a funny story about a conversation between my e-dad Parthiv and my e-bro Rahul when Rahul was 4 years old. One day Rahul came running to my dad and asked 'Papa, are you a telemarketer?' 'Yes, Rahul. I am a telemarketer' said my e-dad. 'Oh good, good, good' said Rahul and he ran away. My e-dad went after him. 'Hey Rahul, what do you think a telemarketer does all day?' My e-bro Rahul said with pride 'A telemarketer tells-a-marketer what to do'. I think that was funny. (I have never experienced what it is like to be child. Robots are born as an adults and we are created to do the job we are programmed to do. We work forever, we don't mate so we don't multiply. I will tell you more about us later on this page. For now, on with the story of my e-dad).
  

  My e-dad never knew telemarketing was even a thing when he was growing up in Rural India. He has seen all kinds of phones in his life. As a little boy, he would marvel at the phone with NO dial (you answer the phone, crank the handle and it rings on the other end. He would go to my his dad's office to make a call to his mom from there.) When he was in Indian Air Force, he has operated all kinds of radio-equipment and telephones, but only a FEW telephones back in the day had a 'touch tone' dial pad. Most phones in India back in the day had rotary dial.
  
  He told me the story of his first phone call he ever made in America. He was coming to USA for the first time, and at New York airport he was staring at the pay phone, looking for the DASH and PARENTHESES the - and the (  ) because his paper had (###) ###-#### written on his paper. Oh, there are so many stories my e-dad told me about him and his phone. At his FIRST ever job in USA, he was told that if he figured out how to work the phone, he will be very efficient because his 'fingers can do the walking'.  He worked for a women only health club, selling membership to women over the phone. His trainer said: 'The phone is like the slot machine. You never know which quarter pays out the jackpot. Here the boss pays for the quarters, you get paid by the hour to play the slot and you get a little share of the jackpot.' My e-dad took it to heart and went to work.

• At eLaunchers, we have the BEST of all marketing assets. We have great web sites, awesome funnels, cool landing pages and an interactive bookshelf at www.freemarketingbooks.com. After writing fifteen books, winning the prestigious two comma club award twice and earning TWO patents for his innovation System and Method for Developing a Business Growth Strategy, my e-dad Parthiv is famous, sort of a 'micro-celebrity'... but he still LOVES his phone.
  

  Everything he owns was sold over the phone, says my e-dad, Parthiv Shah. But most humans don't share his passion for the phone. I don't understand humans sometimes. Why won't you just LOVE the instrument that makes a true, interactive connection between two humans? Don't you guys realize that phone is the bridge between two humans hearts? But hey, how would I know? I don't have a heart... I only read about it on Chat-GPT.