I'm sure I've read somewhere before that a good salesperson knows when to talk to a potential prospect or not - but recently I've had a few sales calls from salespeople who want to argue with me, when I state I'm not interested.
I just had someone one the phone just now, asking for the person who deals with the marketing. As it makes clear on my website, there's me, and my name's Brian. That should also be on my records at Companies House.
If a salesperson can't be bothered to look for that very basic - and very accessible - information on who to speak to, I have no interest in speaking to them.
So I told the guy no, said good bye, and hung up.
He rang back trying to tell me that he's got something worth sending me - I've just said no, what is he going to offer that's so amazing that he doesn't have to do research or take "no" for an answer?
I'm tempted to collect the names of the companies in question and set them up on a shitlist of salespeople who don't care who you are, but want to argue with you anyway.