I have to share with all of you a sales joke I was told today... and not because it was funny. Instead, I am sharing this with you because I am simply unwilling to suffer its existence on my own.

"Did you hear about the saleswoman who sold a lot of freezers over the phone? She did mostly cold calls."

Ugh. Why? Why?!

It's the kind of joke that is so atrocious, I demand the Netflix documentary team to do a four-part series about it immediately, preferably yesterday. I need to understand the who, what, why, how, and when of this humor abomination, so I can guarantee it never happens again.

Because, when it comes to sales and sales enablement, you're already struggling enough to adapt to this new remote-first way of doing business. You don't need this kind of negative energy in your life making things worse.

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