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

[chris fedde]

Much of the time sales people have a hard time fielding detailed
questions about their product.  Frequently they need to hand such
questions off to a CE or other technical support.   Presentations by
sales people at a gathering like CLUE sometimes end up as a waste of
both parties time.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Shawn Perry <redmop924 at comcast.net> wrote:
> What is so bad about sales people anyway?
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Dennis J Perkins
> <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 07:39 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Dennis J Perkins
>> <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
>> > If salespeople can provide information that people want to hear, then I
>> > don't have a problem.  But how do we decide what is acceptable?  Ask the
>> > group if they would like to have salespeople come in and talk about
>> > something?
>> >
>>
>> In theory, you would only need to ask those who actually attend
>> presentations! We've had quite a bit of interest for virtualization
>> (-Vmware included), and that is certainly dominated at the moment by
>> non-free (in every sense) software. I'm a middle of the road person.
>> Any reasonably interesting technical presentation is worth my time.
>>
>>
>> After reading the comments, my opinion is that we want a technical talk.
>> If a salesman can do a reasonable job, then he can give the talk.
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