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

[Shawn Perry]

That is simply because the sales team did not do the proper research so they
could bring the proper tools or information to the meeting.  A common
problem.

So the issue isn't with all sales people, but instead with unprepared sales
people?

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:47 PM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> 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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