By AJ Picard

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Is it me or am I the only one that receives calls from multiple random numbers a day?

When I answer these calls here’s what ends up happening next:

I say hello, there’s silence and then the call ends

A computer/bot starts talking to me about stuff I just don’t care about.

You hear a “Bloop” sound and a telemarketer starts talking.

No matter how many I do the following:

Block the number

Yell “I’m not interested and take me off the call list” to the bot/telemarketer

Decline the call (which is followed up by another call)

They still keep finding ways to get in contact with me. Is it me or whoever invented this tactic wasn’t that smart.

Who’s more dumb, the companies that think this is a good way to market or the companies/individuals that hire these companies to do this type of marketing?

The answer is their both dumb.

If you want to be a great sales rep or marketer you have to know the basics. Your focal point should be making a connection with your potential customer, not forcing them to listen.

What’s Next

I think as more and more information becomes public making a phone call will be eliminated from society.

Humans are getting smarter which means so is technology. Now companies are sending text messages to talk to customers instead of calling them. We’re now promoting/contacting customers on social media instead of cold calling or emailing them.

The two things we do know is that Email & Phone calls are becoming very spammy, no one answers random numbers anymore and nobody answers emails from people they don’t know… well, at least I don’t.

Over the next five years, I think the phone will be deleted from our smartphones. Instead, if you have an iPhone you will be using facetime as the replacement. I think this is a way better alternative anyway, Facetiming has always felt more personal, plus when you Facetime audio the dial tone sounds so much cooler than a regular phone dial tone! For Android users, you will be using Facebook messenger and other video conference apps.

As wifi becomes more accessible and it continues to improve, this option to me makes the best sense.

This will help reduce the spam calls you will be receiving, since companies can’t gain access to your Apple ID email because Apple will be protecting your information… hopefully.

In the next five years, I think all of this will start to happen, especially as technology advances. TV Streaming companies like Hulu + Netflix are reinventing how we watch TV and are starting to affect the big name brands like Comcast and Verizon. As wifi gets more accessible the same thing is going to happen with phone providers like AT&T and Verizon.

Overtime every market begins to adapt as we humans discover better ways to do things.