Sales person or tattletale?

by Sabrina Parsons on September 25, 2007

Tim Berry just posted about annoying trade show tactics on his blog. Beyond the annoying sales person at trade shows Tim mentions, how about those annoying vendors who cold call you or employees at your company, and then get annoyed when you don’t call back?

Or even worse, someone at your company does call back, and politely tells the person no. Then the annoying sales person calls me to tell me what an idiot my employee is for turning down their offer. What kind of business does this sales person think I am running? Do they think I will trust them more then someone that works for me, and that I pay? If I didn’t trust my own employees — I think that I would have bigger problems then them turning down annoying sales pitches.

Has anyone EVER liked or respected the tattletale? Come on people – get a different sales pitch!

Sabrina Parsons, aka, Mommy CEO

About Sabrina Parsons

Sabrina has served as CEO of Palo Alto Software since 2007. She and her husband, Noah, founded a UK software distribution company in 2001 that later was purchased by and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Palo Alto Software. Sabrina is a successful Internet expert, having served as Director of Online Marketing at Commtouch, Senior Producer at Epinions.com, and founder of her own Web consulting company, Lighting Out. She is a graduate of Princeton University. Sabrina masquerades as MommyCEO (www.mommyceo.org), where she writes a blog about running a business and balancing that with life with her husband and three young sons. When Sabrina is not at work she can be found chasing her kids all over Oregon: biking, hiking, swimming, skiing, and anything outdoors that uses up a lot of little boys' energy.