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> If it didn't work, people wouldn't still be doing it. The same can be said for all sorts of activities, from the illegal and unethical to the mundane. Altho

> If it didn't work, people wouldn't still be doing it. The same can be said for all sorts of activities, from the illegal and unethical to the mundane. Although, to be fair, you're right. Which is why I actively make it my goal to make doing cold sales outreach more costly to the companies doing it than if they had done nothing at all. A BDR cold emailing me is a pretty good way to make sure your software does not get considered by my organization, and I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team more time than they spent contacting me unwantedly in the first place.

georgel 1mo ago
I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open. It really shouldn't be that hard, I even would do the work of "hey this is our expected usage, I have already adjusted for an overage buffer, how much?".
Barbing 1mo ago
> I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team…time What might this look like for you? (I don’t cold email except thanks or say questions btw, but I am curious!)
- rcxdude 1mo ago
  Probably some GDPR requests to remove their email and other personal information from their databases.
inigyou 1mo ago
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- anticorporate 1mo ago
  What on earth are you talking about? Billboards are mostly illegal in my county, as they should be. But even if they weren't, this still isn't true. Most of my career, one of my primary jobs has been product selection. That part of your brain just doesn't turn off. I know it's hard to fathom, but I probably haven't made an impulse purchase in years, and 95% of the consumer goods we buy are from the retailer I work for. We base purchasing on attributes, period, and being pretty strict on things like no HFCS or artificial preservatives means very few national brands even make it through the sieve.
dbbk 1mo ago
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- anticorporate 1mo ago
  If I'm insufferable to people doing cold sales outreach, I have accomplished what I set out to do. So, thank you.

georgel 1mo ago

I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open. It really shouldn't be that hard, I even would do the work of "hey this is our expected usage, I have already adjusted for an overage buffer, how much?".

Barbing 1mo ago

> I'm very likely going to cost their privacy/compliance team…time What might this look like for you? (I don’t cold email except thanks or say questions btw, but I am curious!)

rcxdude 1mo ago
Probably some GDPR requests to remove their email and other personal information from their databases.

inigyou 1mo ago

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anticorporate 1mo ago
What on earth are you talking about? Billboards are mostly illegal in my county, as they should be. But even if they weren't, this still isn't true. Most of my career, one of my primary jobs has been product selection. That part of your brain just doesn't turn off. I know it's hard to fathom, but I probably haven't made an impulse purchase in years, and 95% of the consumer goods we buy are from the retailer I work for. We base purchasing on attributes, period, and being pretty strict on things like no HFCS or artificial preservatives means very few national brands even make it through the sieve.

dbbk 1mo ago

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anticorporate 1mo ago
If I'm insufferable to people doing cold sales outreach, I have accomplished what I set out to do. So, thank you.