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Default Re: Spam-lurkers at networking events!

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Originally Posted by LeelaCosgrove View Post
Oh God, I hear you BB!

On the one hand it makes me angry ... on the other, it makes me pity them ...

These are people who are clearly too shy or who don't have enough of a belief in their own value to network in a way that would behoove them ... you see this attitude ALL the time in commission only sales teams - rather than asking for the order, the scared sales person does up a "proposal" and sends an email.

They hope against hope that 3 or 4 pages of a word document will sell so that they don't have to.

Documents don't sell.

People do.

Same goes for newsletters.
Reminds me a bit of those pushy sales people who intentionally try to provoke you, so they can shove their service down your throat.

- Jake
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