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

[Dennis J Perkins]

I agree.  Let the technical people do the talk and afterwards, people
can talk to the sales people if they want.

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 14:43 -0700, Mike Bean wrote:

> 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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