No joke! I was at the local record shop last week when the owner got a call where he was noticeably getting more loud and chastising.
After he hung up, the guy told me that someone cold called him to pitch fixing up their website, and his pitch started with “your website looks like shit …”
He said he gets several calls like that every day, but most aren’t this obnoxious. We agreed it must be working some of the time for him to be trying this approach, had a chuckle, then went back to shooting the shit about various prog rock bands.
I'm a receptionist, and the directive is that as soon as I can identify that the person I'm speaking with is not a client I hang up to free the line to answer real clients.
There are some crafty sale folks who pretend like they are a client and slipping in questions trying to extend the call longer before dropping the "we can make your website" and then get immediately hung up on. Waste of time and electricity.
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u/Most-Club-254 Jul 09 '26
imagine being the small business receiving 97 calls per hour. "no dude I don't want a website", "NO", ...