the_nerd - 1:34 pm on Jun 8, 2008 (gmt 0)

Because cold-emailing 500 thousand businesses is unethical while cold-calling 500 businesses is okay?

Most of the time, I'd prefer some spam email in my inbox (spambayes is taking care of that), but if someone calls, I have to a) either pick up the phone b) possibly lose a real customer. So these guys really steal my time without a chance to get rid of them before listening.

But every other week I decide to listen to one of those and try to find out how they sell. It's tough business and some of them are really good at what they do. Once they find out they a giving me a free sales training, they often hang up ...