Call me, don’t be afraid you can call me…

The title of this post are words from a song performed, by amongst others, Petula Clark in the 1960′s. So what connection do they have to online investing?

Well the answer is related to how personal we need to get when we try to share potential online investment opportunities with other people.

For the vast majority of people that read my blog I have no idea of who you are, where you come from, whether you are male, female, young or old. That’s not to say that I couldn’t find out some of this information as it is fairly easy to track where people are located and even an IP address but with regard to you as an individual that isn’t possible directly, and rightly so.

For a small number of readers I know a little more about you as you’ve signed up to my private newsletter so I know your first name and email address. I’ve had to make sure that you gave me permission to hold this information but now I can at least refer to you by your first name when I contact you with what I hope you consider to be useful, relevant and potentially profitable information.

But what would happen if I tried to speak to you on the phone? This question has been buzzing around my mind over the last few days. One program that I belong to recommends that if you receive no response from email communications you should phone the prospect and speak to them directly. I’m struggling because I doubt whether an unsolicited call would be either popular or welcome, especially if it is not 100% clear to the person you call that they willingly provided their phone number when filling out an online form.

Many people provide their details to all sorts of business opportunity websites and end up being extremely wary when called.

Personally, I’m highly suspicious of any call where the caller is unfamiliar to me. But, perhaps that’s just because of my reserved English character. Are people generally happy to receive calls from strangers and be happy to be pitched too?

I’ve got no problem in calling someone who willingly provides me with their number on the basis that they do it in the full knowledge of what I’d want to discuss when I called. So for me the title of this post is not something that I’m entirely comfortable with. Perhaps you have other views, why not leave a comment and add to the debate.