Warming Up to the Cold Call

Naturally, your cold call will not be successful 100 percent of the time. A number of people will immediately hang up on you (sometimes politely, sometimes less so), and others might listen for a minute or two before asking you to call at another time (they don't mean it). You've done your job, made a 
good effort, and now must accept that there are people in the world whose philanthropic interests simply do not align with you and your 
organization.