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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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[–] ironhydroxide 72 points 11 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] 40 points 11 months ago

Anyone calling me I don't know is spam, and I never answer. Text, email, or snail mail if you need to contact me so I can decide if interaction will develop further.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is illegal in Germany by the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

B2B cold lead generation is illegal in Germany?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Nope. Op probably referred to consumers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hate how this person writes. Are they practicing freeform poetry or something?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You need to make your slop

accessible to the 70 year old CEOs

in the audience by double-spacing

In reality it's just a tactic to make your short paragraph grab 10 times as much screen real estate

[–] BakedGoods 8 points 11 months ago

Sales people are just one step above rapists in my book.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I started keeping a list of companies that cold call me, it will take a lot for me to ever do business with any of them.

The worse are the lead gen companies. Those assholes call me multiple times a day even after I tell them not to call and report them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My hot take is... It depends. If I produce a product and call a specific business with proper preparations, like calling someone who is the correct contact point while a specific business idea in mind for the business, that isn't really spam, as spam is about sending many unsolicited messages or call a bunch of more or less random people, but that one prepared call might be a cold call.

So for me, spam is about amount and not about how annoying it is.