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Cold calls aren't spam! (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw this and thought, well yeah that VP is right, cold calls are annoying spam. However, based on the insane comments by all the salespeople, you'd be wrong. Like, are salespeople that out of touch with normal people?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who is so outgoing/extroverted to think it's normal to just go up to anyone and interrupt their day with whatever they feel like, probably sees this as just another topic about which to converse.

Everyone else doesn't particularly like strangers interrupting their day, and especially when it's just to take their money.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm in the former group. Not just that, but I'm good at sales. Like, nicknamed The Closer and that sorta corporate motivational bullshit at one point good.

I will strike up conversations with people in a bar and make new friends waiting in lines. It's a talent, but its also a skill that can be taught and learned. It's a hat you wear to help you at work.

All that said, cold calls suck ass and they're a nuisance on most any individual. I'd refuse to do them on non-business customers.