Sales Rep Sends 56th Follow-Up In Two Days
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Director of West Coast Sales Joey O’Brien left the 56th follow-up to his introductory email Tuesday morning to the voice mail inbox of Senior Media Planner Chet Petersen, according to sources at the San Francisco office of Publicease North America. According to Petersen, the follow-up calls and emails began approximately 37 seconds after Petersen sent a cursory e-mail response thanking O’Brien for his interest in his clients’ media strategies, and have continued at a rate of approximately 3 per hour since then. “This is ridiculous, man,” said Petersen. ”I answered his email as a courtesy, now I can’t get rid of the guy. I mean he started out by asking if I had time to meet tomorrow, and now he’s accusing me of doing a disservice to my clients by ignoring him. Relax, man, I’ll get back to you as soon as I deal with the 600 other sales reps that called me yesterday.”