Google Cold Calls Battelle On AdSense; Fails To Do Homework
Vignette: Google’s Sales Call and the (New?) Fifty Percent Rule
is a nice chuckle from John Battelle, where he gets a cold call from a
member of Google’s AdSense sales force trying to get him to carry Google ads.
He’s got a loose transcript that’s very amusing. But it’s also pretty serious. It makes good sense that your sales team
should do some homework about
those they are approaching. Clearly, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
How difficult is it to Google the person you’re about to have a
talk with? John thinks that would be wise, I agree. It’s basic
homework you should do for anyone you’d want to approach. At the very least, you
might learn something to help you with the pitch.
Had that been done with John, what would the sales person have learned? Let’s scan the
Google results for john
battelle:
In 0.22 seconds (that’s the time Google reported taking to generate these
results), you’d see at a glance that this "john battelle" character you’re about
to pitch AdSense to sounds very similar to some "john battelle" guy that talked
with Googlers like yourself. And he was on the official Google Video Blog? Alarm
bells should be ringing, by now.
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