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Confidence or desperation

Wednesday, July 28. 2010

Is this a new trend in IT sales? Companies offering AMEX gift cards for attending a sales presentation. Got the second mail of this kind. Greenbytes offered $50 for listening to them, a few minutes ago i've got a similar mail from a company called Exagrid offering $100 for an half hour web presentation.

Somehow i'm not sure what i should think about that: Should i translate this "We are so sure that you will buy the product that we pay you to take a sales call!" or "We are so desperate that we need to pay people just to take a sales call...".

Perhaps you could make a living out of professional sales attending ... given that such examples are representing a trend ... or auction an hour a day on eBay in half-hour increments for such paid sales calls

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 21:54 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)
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Hey, I've got about half a dozen or more t-shirts from SUN that I got simply for listening (and watching) to a webcast.
They're good quality cloth, too.

#1 Rainer (Homepage) on 2010-07-28 22:31 (Reply)

$100 is a little bit more than just a t-shirt

#1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2010-07-28 22:33 (Reply)

Hmm.

1 t-shirt ~= $20
6 t-shirts == $120

#1.1.1 Yuri on 2010-07-28 22:57 (Reply)

6 calls versus 1 call

and people wearing the shirts are running Litfaß pillars

#1.1.1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2010-07-28 23:04 (Reply)

The Sun / Solaris shirts that the sales rep left here on our last SunDay had major stability issues.. after the second washing cycle, the flock print went into pieces.. but the shirts themselves are really good. I just can't go into public with them anymore..
I'm desperately searching for some of the old Sun mousepads (purple/grey "the network is the computer") that were shipped mostly with the Type5 country kits.. I've never found other pads in such good quality, but my backstore is running low, and five years is the max time before replacement...

#1.1.1.1.1 Woo (Homepage) on 2010-08-05 11:39 (Reply)

Working in IT since 2008 I never got any SUN swag. And now it's too late.

#1.2 afo on 2010-07-30 14:54 (Reply)

I would read a blog by someone who made a living taking sales calls.

#2 J M on 2010-07-28 22:42 (Reply)

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