How to Handle Unsolicited Sales Calls Effectively

Your response reflects more about you than the caller.

Lokajit Tikayatray
Be Unique

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A woman holding the mouth piece of a phone with a frustrated look on her face.
Image by Please Don’t Sell My Artwork AS IS from Pixabay

We all get many unsolicited marketing calls every day.

The calls range from selling insurance plans to asking for donations for charities to ask if we will be interested in applying for a credit card.

These unsolicited calls are a pure waste of time. Many times the callers push so hard or call so frequently that we lose our peace of mind.

I have seen people shouting and screaming at the phone asking the other side to stop bothering them.

However, it does not have to be so difficult to handle this menace of undesired calls. I have devised methods that help me to not let such calls bother me. Check them out to see if you can use the same to deal with the problem:

Points to Understand

Before we jump into how to handle the menace without losing our peace, let’s understand a few points about the problem.

  • I tell myself that the other side of the phone is a human who needs a job. They must have a family to feed and needs to meet. Given a chance, the person will obviously choose a more comfortable job where they will not…

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Lokajit Tikayatray
Be Unique

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