Someone gave me the idea to use this at the end of a recent speech, so .. with apologies to David Letterman - here are the Top Ten Reasons You Know You're in Pre-sales When ..
10: Everyone in the room waits for you to nod your head after the sales rep finishes speaking.
9: You have more email addresses than pairs of shoes.
8: The custom demo you worked on all week wasn’t the product the customer was expecting to see.
7: You spend more time changing the settings on your laptop than using it.
6: The only people who call you after 3pm on a Friday are sales reps who need something urgently by 9am on Monday.
5: Every deal you are working on is going to be HUGE!! I promise!!
4: Your sales rep thinks “RFP” means Really Fast Paperwork
3: You have to use the showers in the customer’s gym to freshen up before that 9am presentation of the POC results.
2: You have more servers in your basement than your customer has in their data center.
1: Not a single deal will be signed in 2010 without the involvement and expertise of everyone in the Pre-Sales Engineering Team!
10: Everyone in the room waits for you to nod your head after the sales rep finishes speaking.
9: You have more email addresses than pairs of shoes.
8: The custom demo you worked on all week wasn’t the product the customer was expecting to see.
7: You spend more time changing the settings on your laptop than using it.
6: The only people who call you after 3pm on a Friday are sales reps who need something urgently by 9am on Monday.
5: Every deal you are working on is going to be HUGE!! I promise!!
4: Your sales rep thinks “RFP” means Really Fast Paperwork
3: You have to use the showers in the customer’s gym to freshen up before that 9am presentation of the POC results.
2: You have more servers in your basement than your customer has in their data center.
1: Not a single deal will be signed in 2010 without the involvement and expertise of everyone in the Pre-Sales Engineering Team!
Awesome. Loved it :)
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