A salesperson describes getting hung up on during a cold call and feeling personally rejected. The key is treating sales as a numbers game: focus on volume, not individual rejections. When you genuinely want to help prospects, a hang-up stings less and becomes just part of the process.
So tell me, man, just real quick, when you got that first call, when you did that first call and somebody hung up on you, man, what's that feeling like?
Oh, you're, you're questioning your existence, CJ. You're like, you know what it is? It's really hard to not take it personally, right? And so that's one of the things as a salesperson you have to learn is that it's a numbers game. Yes, you're interacting with people, but ultimately, you know, you're trying to help people. You know, if you're really coming from the right place, you're trying to help people, so you know when they hang up on you or whatever.