Cold calls aren't spam!
Cold calls aren't spam!
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?
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.
This is illegal in Germany by the way.
B2B cold lead generation is illegal in Germany?
Nope. Op probably referred to consumers.
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.
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.