Your point of view makes sense, here, Chad...but I also see another side to what is being done with these 'outreach' efforts. [Having purchased a while back, the book/CD from the main guy who started this "trend"], by him sending these emails out, means he IS NOT actually cold-calling...you. Or me.

More, on a bigger sense, I actually believe what's being done here with this type of effort, as the main point being made here I think is that there are MANY ways to be successful in Sales...yet all too often we are shackled into modes, or methods, that yield little or NO success at all.