Are prospects actually picking up the phone during calls and meetings? (Booked someone 'in a meeting' today)

I get this as an SDR all the time.


Prospect: hello


Me: hi (prospect), this is (me) from (inc.), am I catching u at a bad time here?


Prospect: uh... yeah. I'm in a meeting...




What do you do from here? Sometimes I give up, sometimes I ask if it's okay to call back later *which they never pick up now that I think about it when I do call back even if they've agreed*, sometimes after you ask for a call back they ask why, then you pitch and get in, but this time around:



I proceeded to say: 'no worries, do u mind if I take 30 seconds to see if a callback makes sense?'


Prospect: go *he said with expectant demand*


Me: ** 23-second pitch including, what we do, who we are, why we are different, how we help, and why it's relevant** *slayed that shit*


Prospect: Yeah that sounds very interesting but uh...I'm not the Decision maker


Me: no worries, I know I'm calling out of the blue here, certainly wasn't looking to talk to the decision-maker necessarily as much as the end user because if it doesn't make sense for the end-user there's no point in bringing it to the decision-maker, does that make sense?'


Prospect: *beaten into submission* yeah.. sure.. let's put a time on the calendar

(proceeded to awkwardly find a time that fits for all us 4, AE, him, SC, me, thanked him, and hopped off, sent him a followup email and invite w plenty of resources)


P.S. this was Pepsi for Cyber today ( i hope he accepts)


Thoughts?

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Justatitle
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I was in recruiting prior and a recruiter I worked with was like that’s the first brush off and if they were busy they wouldn’t answer the phone. They’re expecting you to say ok and bye but if you give them a bit of a challenge you’d be surprised how often the convo can continue. Some great advice that I got early in my career 
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You handled it well.

People will almost never answer a call from a number they don't recognize if they're in a meeting, it's just a very easy brush off. 
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