[clue-talk] Sales presentations at meetings (was Re: Fwd: Cyber Monday 3 Day Sale - Get Up to 50% Off)

[Mike Bean]

Sure.  We can ask them and specifically emphasize that any presentations
should be mostly technical.  I know the feeling, I'm not much on sales
presentations either.  I would emphasize that let's not count our chickens
before they hatch, nobody's really agreed to anything yet, it's just
something in the formative stages.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Crawford Rainwater <
crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:

> I guess as one of the CLUE Admins I will chime in here some.
>
> Typically in the past, sales folks making pitches and presentations have
> resulted in disgruntle CLUEbies wanting more of a "technical presentation"
> versus "sales pitch".  I know when I was scheduling CLUE-North meetings I
> did my best to advise companies doing presentations like that to have the
> sales reps off to the side for folks to approach which turned out better,
> and let the technical folks show off the goods.  Another good example would
> be the recent RedHat Road Tour where there were presentations on RHEL v6
> features and such, with multiple sales engineers available afterward over
> lunch to answer specifics and taking information for the sales crew to
> follow up.
>
> I am not sure who is handling CLUE "swag" these days for door prizes so
> Dennis might be the best person to talk to about that.
>
> Food for thought for folks.  Comments and such as welcomed.  Also to note
> as usual, I receive the CLUE lists in Digest format, so pardon any delays in
> advance.
>
> --- Crawford
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