agave

Head of Business Development

Junior AE Aggressive Outreach?

I had a AE from another company call me regarding a solution I am lukewarm on. BC of his persistence I engaged with him. He repeatedly asked for a call which I didn't think was necessary until I felt it was more compelling. He used the booking link in my signature to schedule a call with me knowing that I didn't agree to a call. Is this a smart tactic on his part or would you be turned off by someone doing that to you?

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CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I don't blame him for trying. If you don't want to take the call then politely decline and call it a day. 🤷‍♀️

ChunkyButters

Tycoon

I'd be turned off. I've used meeting links only after the prospect says "grab some time below". NEVER randomly grabbing time.

This feels like the meeting link version of randomly sending a calendar invite hoping for a call. If someone did this to me (I have the link in my signature), I'd cancel the call and tell them it was uninvited and to piss off.

funcoupons

WR Officer

👑

Same. Way too aggressive and comes off as disrespectful to a prospect's time.

BmajoR

Arsonist

Account Executive

Ew, big swerve there bud. There's persistence and there's annoying/pushy. You can't strong arm someone into a sale.

FattySnacks

Politicker

Senior Account Executive

Seems like old school car sales tactics. I doubt this would work with Senior leadership

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

It's certainly a move. I wouldn't make it a regular thing but not a bad arrow to have in the quiver for rare circumstances.

SalesGal

Politicker

Account Executive

Seems pushy but I think it depends on how our conversations went and how young the person was. If its a young/inexperience rep and the conversation are always pleasant, I would probably chuckle, and give them the time and maybe some feedback on the approach they chose.

Tres

Politicker

Account Executive

He's just being bold, I wouldn't take offense at it

agave

Contributor

Head of Business Development

I'm not offended. I just wouldn't do it to someone else as I think it comes off as being unsophisticated.

Tres

Politicker

Account Executive

That's true. Are you going to take the call or blow him off?

agave

Contributor

Head of Business Development

Blow him off and then ghost :)

Tres

Politicker

Account Executive

Savage!

figjam

Opinionated

Enterprise Sales Executive

This is the risk of including booking links in signature - cant knock his hustle as he was using what was offered to him, whether the intended purpose or not of the booking link.

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

This is interesting, have you now tried their tactic to see the outcome?

GDO

Politicker

BDM

I did it in the past as well. But always as a last resort

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