An angry follow up

My name is “Thomas somename” I met you the other night at the “xyz” event, switched business cards and had sent you an e-mail offering you our insurance services. “This is the follow up(with a bullying tone!) So?”, he says!

Now picture this, I was writing an e-mail while talking to my colleage on mobile and all of a sudden this telemarketer calls. Without asking if it was the right time or not, with a “bullying” tone saying “So?”. I said “I actually haven’t looked at your offer yet to be honest”. “So you don’t think we’re important enough for you?” he says. I was like man! “Can you call later?”, I said. He answered, “Can you just say if you want it or not?”. I said “No” and hung up!

First of all all the insurance people are generally hated, I don’t know why, but that’s the perception. Second, offering a service and following up on a potential client should go friendly, don’t they get the fact that it actually is unsolicited so they’ve gotta’ win our hearts first? Dumb, that is.

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