Never Judge a Call By it’s Cover…

A few months ago, I posted on my personal Facebook page about my experience with a colleague who did a ‘bait and switch’ podcast call with me.

He messaged me to set up a call to talk about being on his show, but in reality it was a thinly veiled sales call that he was inviting me to. 

And I was not his avatar.

Sadly, this tactic has gotten a little too common in this industry.

To the point where- when I posted that story- no one was surprised by my experience.

In fact, some people said that they expected that would happen!

Which is why- when a total stranger jumped on my calendar the other day- for a same day appointment time- that threw up a big red flag for me!

Granted, I was grateful for the reminder to check my calendly settings- bc same day bookings are not a setting I usually allow! LOL

But I was definitely concerned that this person would be a spammer of some type. 

Why else would a total stranger want to jump on my calendar immediately?

It was probably someone who has a lot of free time this week.

And spammers usually have a lot of free time….

So I searched the guy’s name bc I’d never heard of him before. 

We had no friends in common.

And he was barely indexing on google…

More red flags!

So I got on the call, hoping and praying that I wasn’t about to speak with a total stranger who wanted to ‘get’ something from me before knowing anything about me.

But as it turned out- he was actually a nice person!  He reached out to me bc he was looking to partner with people in my niche and I really liked what he had to say.

I told him that it was our first meeting, and I don’t get married on a first date.  

But- stay in touch- we can get to know each other better and at some point in the future we might be able to work a partnership of some type.

We had a really nice and meaningful conversation, then parted as friends.

After posting about my experience a few months ago with the guy who did a bait and switch, it’s only fair that I bring up this experience too.

While at times we may feel like we’re constantly running away from spammers…

Business owners with ethics and morals do still exist!