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

[chris fedde]

OK.  I'll agree with that qualification.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Shawn Perry <redmop924 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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