If you cold call there better be blood or fire involved. It’s not the 1940s anymore, you don’t own my time. If you call and it’s nothing urgent or important, or a programmed call, I will hang up.
The point being that if you have a question and it is not urgent, you could ask by text and I will answer on my time. If it is something complex that merits a conversation, say so and we’ll schedule a call when it is convenient for the both of us. If you cold call to inquire something complex and I have something more urgent or important to tend to, you are effectively stealing my entire attention. There’s a reason we have asynchronous communication channels.
There’s a 100% chance I’m not picking up a cold call. A preparatory text conversation will guarantee I pick up, after I do what I can to provide whatever they want via text so we can forgo the call if possible.
The polite way to do this is to ask “can you talk.”
No, the polite way is to skip the preamble and just call. Either they pick up or they don’t.
If you cold call there better be blood or fire involved. It’s not the 1940s anymore, you don’t own my time. If you call and it’s nothing urgent or important, or a programmed call, I will hang up.
That’s my point. If someone writes first and then calls they are wasting my time twice.
The point being that if you have a question and it is not urgent, you could ask by text and I will answer on my time. If it is something complex that merits a conversation, say so and we’ll schedule a call when it is convenient for the both of us. If you cold call to inquire something complex and I have something more urgent or important to tend to, you are effectively stealing my entire attention. There’s a reason we have asynchronous communication channels.
Sounds like someone who gets set to always go to voicemail.
No I need the preamble. Is this a conversation I want to have now or later or never?
There’s a 100% chance I’m not picking up a cold call. A preparatory text conversation will guarantee I pick up, after I do what I can to provide whatever they want via text so we can forgo the call if possible.