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

[Mike Bean]

Worst case scenario, I like to think I have at least a reasonable chance
of answering technical questions on ESX/ESXi.  (shrug)   If I don't know
the answer, I generally have a good idea where to start getting an
answer = )   (Now with regards to tons of other VMware subjects, fusion,
workstation, converter, VCB, VDR, view...etc, I don't pretend to my butt
from a hole in the ground.)


On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 20:41 -0700, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> 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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