Yes, I mean, obviously if someone gives your their personal cell phone number and they know who you are, you shouldn't hassle them. (That'll be chapter one of my book.)
But you guys are telling me that you can call a manager's office number and they'll pick up, and you think that's a bad thing? (For what it's worth, even when my reps were working from home, I had them personally pick up their office line exactly zero times.) You have 30 seconds to pitch your logline and impress them! And again, what is the worst case scenario? If they don't want to hear it or don't like it, they will never never never remember your name. You can query them in a week in an email.
I've talked to my manager about querying, and here's the reality: 95% of the emails that go to him are picked up by a filter his company has to weed out queries from people he doesn't know. I'm sure that number isn't as high at lower level management companies, because they're not paying some IT guy to install the filters.
Take your shot. If you get access to someone who can help you, and you don't ask them for a read because you're afraid you'll offend them... what have you gained? "That person whose name I will never remember didn't bother me."
I'm not saying anyone has to call people. But the reasons people are giving not to don't make any sense to me.
But you guys are telling me that you can call a manager's office number and they'll pick up, and you think that's a bad thing? (For what it's worth, even when my reps were working from home, I had them personally pick up their office line exactly zero times.) You have 30 seconds to pitch your logline and impress them! And again, what is the worst case scenario? If they don't want to hear it or don't like it, they will never never never remember your name. You can query them in a week in an email.
I've talked to my manager about querying, and here's the reality: 95% of the emails that go to him are picked up by a filter his company has to weed out queries from people he doesn't know. I'm sure that number isn't as high at lower level management companies, because they're not paying some IT guy to install the filters.
Take your shot. If you get access to someone who can help you, and you don't ask them for a read because you're afraid you'll offend them... what have you gained? "That person whose name I will never remember didn't bother me."
I'm not saying anyone has to call people. But the reasons people are giving not to don't make any sense to me.
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