mary mary.. why you buggin?!

I saw this tonight on LI and thought oooooo someone is digging themselves quite a lot. But is she wrong to give feedback or maybe could have a been a wee bit more kind? She’s getting called out by all the sales peeps rn.😏 Roasty Toasty Mary. Personally I have replied to cold emails but typically more like. Hey sorry I’m not the right person for this, or if I’m feeling super nice (rare but does happen) I redirect for them. Mostly I ignore. Does anyone else reply to these?


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📞 Cold Calling
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poweredbycaffeine
WR Lieutenant
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File this under things that were not sent.

You work for Outreach, the company that focuses on personalization through AI that is baked into their technology. Bea in Marketing crafted this up and it stinks.
UserNotFound
Politicker
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Account Executive
100% Agree. This smells like a completely fabricated scenario just to subliminally tout their own product. "Stories sell" ...eyeroll.
Jbeans
Opinionated
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Director of Sales
Great point. I felt it was a “hey look how great I am” post. 
ShelleyLevene
Good Citizen
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Sales Rep
Don’t hate it honestly, Mary doesn’t owe anyone shit. I do 60 seconds worth of due diligence on all accounts to decide if there is more prospecting warranted. Even in those 60 seconds I could probably gather from her LinkedIn if she was tied to the subject matter I was slinging….
Now conversely Mary is painfully unaware of the shit job her co-workers at Outreach do. I’ve had SDRs cold calling me for a job that I’ve been gone from for almost a year now. Told each one politely that I’m not at that company and would love to be off the list so my time and the next persons time doesn’t get wasted and it’s still happening almost once a month…. At least 5 times now. So Mary, meet pot, pot meet kettle.
Other thing is, does it even matter? Does Mary have a following of any kind? Cuz the contacts I do rip blind sequences to, if they took to LI and shouted to their 84 followers that I was lazy I honestly wouldn’t care. If she does matter, even more of a reason to research and know what you are talking about.
My 2 cents
UrAssIsSaaS
Arsonist
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SaaS Eater
Leaving the fact that she works for Outreach aside, I dont hate her giving feedback to a salesperson (if this is even real). No need to blast them on the interwebs but when I get an email thats super irrelevant I try to politely let them know they are barking up the wrong tree and point them in the right direction. 
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
My response to poor cold outreach often depends on my mood, but I've never been nasty.

I was polite but firm with the Gong rep.

I was quite a bit colder with the recruiter who told me with my background I'd be perfect as a developer for a role they had.

I was even colder with the recruiters who acclaimed my experience and offered a starting BDR role.

But never nasty, and I only shame on this platform, which is anonymous.
jefe
Arsonist
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🍁
So much of it is about context...

I kept getting lit up by Primerica people for awhile. Not looking to 'start my own business'

And the best was the one with the message that targeted unemployed people - huh!?!
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Oh, I'd forgotten about those.   All the offers targeting "people in your position investing in franchise opportunities".  Like I'm too stupid to realize that's a whole job in itself?   Definitely not something I'm remotely interested in as I'm looking at retirement being, you know, retirement, and not trying to bootstrap some franchise location business.   And not that I'm all that close to that, either.
MCP
Valued Contributor
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Sales Director
Doesn’t the writer know unpersonalized / irrelevant emails are sabotage? I mean, Mary wants to do it to them with the wiffle ball bat.
Beans
Big Shot
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Enterprise Account Executive
Outreach - which exists mainly for mass spamming, the irony. 
buckets1
Politicker
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AE
Mary — You work at Outreach. The company responsible for creating the category that has so many unpersonalized sales emails hitting everyone’s inbox. Not hating on Outreach btw...great tool. Hilarious though that Mary would get so offended.
dwightyouignorantsale
Politicker
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Account Executive
The rep definitely should have done more research, no question. However, I am vehemently against people posting this type of stuff on LinkedIn. If you want Mary to send better stuff, then respond and give your feedback there. I will never understand the need for people to screenshot and post to LinkedIn, other than trying to get likes and comments.
Jbeans
Opinionated
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Director of Sales
Yep. And ironically I got called 5 times today by an outreach rep. And I was super nice and he still circled back to me. 🙄 
Jewcan_Sam81
Politicker
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Account Executive
I always reply to cold emails from sales reps, recruiters, even some jabronies that think I do something i 100% don't do for a living, and always politely. 

I feel similarly to the people in this comment thread that equate this to how retail workers are treated. We're just doing our jobs, and the only reason someone isn't chewing out Mary is because she doesn't do something forward facing enough for people to do the same for her so she doesn't know how it feels.
FattySnacks
Politicker
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Senior Account Executive
Sounds to me like she’s exactly right.
Jbeans
Opinionated
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Director of Sales
Maybe! But some kindness might be in order…. Someone blamed marketing in the comments too 😂
FattySnacks
Politicker
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Senior Account Executive
I don’t see why she needs to be nice. The rep was lazy and didn’t do their research or put time in personalization. Don’t wanna get roasted? Don’t be a 💩
CaneWolf
Politicker
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
It probably was an automated email from marketing.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
Fucking Marketo bullshit. 😒
CaneWolf
Politicker
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
Why did Adobe pay all that money for them again?
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
Who the hell knows. 
Biznasty
Opinionated
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Lead Business Development Manager
I don’t believe in roasting people on public platforms for simple mistakes. A lot of what reps do is dictated by their leadership. Who knows if that’s the case here. Just keeping it real, I do 50% cold mass outreach and 50% personalized for my sanity and they both work differently for me but they both yield results.
I’ve had personalized emails from reps come off as the MOST creepy.
Jbeans
Opinionated
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Director of Sales
Agree with that. Like when I worked retail growing up and had a name tag? Creepy at times / you don’t know me !! 
Jbeans
Opinionated
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Director of Sales
And agree with your comments about public LinkedIn shaming… thinking it went sideways on her from the comments I read. Maybe that’s why it caught my attention bc … Mary? Weve alllll been there, it came off condescending. If she really wanted to help? Be nice and don’t post it. 
Biznasty
Opinionated
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Lead Business Development Manager
Yeah. I've definitely had the urge to do it before however I just think I have made some pretty big mistakes in my career. Sales is the only job that gets this way. At the end of the day, we're not customer service people. Sometimes it's more important to get a yes or no than make a friend. Mary has probably made mistakes before and I bet that her boss didn't blast her on linked in for it. 

on the other hand, I've had reps from companies we already do business with reach out to me and then continue to ignore me telling them we are already their customer with another rep and if they do it more than 3x I will reach out to my rep and let them know. 
Executioner
Politicker
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Business Dev.
Mary doesn't need to roast buuuuut... the rep should research. It's really not that hard, especially if they have linkedin.
Cornholio
Opinionated
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Account Executive
I always try to be nice if I have the time. But I have a sales back ground and have a soft spot for someone trying to do their job. If someone acts like this I usually laugh it off. They must suck pretty hard to let this get to them.
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