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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A1200 and LD vs HD drives
- Message-ID: <69752@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 01:24:05 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov11.100321.60681@cc.usu.edu>
- <1992Nov12.161024.3885@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <69516@cup.portal.com>
- <1992Nov16.231221.7370@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- >Quoth joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan):
- >]> >
- >]> >Gee, I can think of several tacks to take with such a customer:
- >]>
- >]> You mean ATtacks!
- >]>
- >]> >So on and so forth...
- >]>
- >]> We can tell you've never tried to SELL for a living. If you displayed that
- >]> attitude towards me as a customer, I'd walk out and never buy anything from
- >]> you.
- >
- >As others have assumed, you have also assumed incorrectly. I spent QUITE some
- >time selling the things.
-
- Yeah, like selling "things" for 2 minutes :-)
-
- >Let me put this as simple as possible:
- >
- >SELL the computer! Defensive stances are losers from the get-go. If you
-
- But you said that if they asked about the floppy you would turn them away.
- That's hardly "selling" the computer.
-
- You said...
- "Oh, if high density drives are all you're interested in, let's cut the
- computer our of the equation altogether! I can sell you SEVERAL HD
- drives for that price!"
- "Are you here to buy a computer or a disk drive?"
-
- That is NOT "SELL the computer!" That's "your a twit you idiot, get out of
- my store!"
-
- >cannot address the advantages of owning a 1200 or 4000 or what-have-you to
- >the customer, you are doing that customer a dis-service by making excuses
- >and implying things that C= may or may not make good on.
-
- Bull hockey. Honesty and an attitude of working with and for the customer
- sells the computer. Explaining the lack of the hd drive needs to be
- addresses _along with_ the advantages of owning a 1200 or 4000.
-
- I'll not waste more of my time with this stupid display of your poor
- salesmanship. It's obvious you couldn't hack it and so you were dropped
- from the sales force (if your really were ever on one).
-
- -Joel
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- / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA /
- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
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