First, welcome back, I hope your absence involved a fun vacation. I have yet to meet the variety of sales person you speak of, Micheal. I have known many, worked with some and been mislead (at best).
If you know a true, professional sales representative who has never, never, made a statement that he or she knows to be not quite completely 100% true which includes saying "yes product (or service) x can do that" when they mean "if you pay us enough money we can make product (or service) x do that in a fashion that might or might not exactly fit your needs" then I'll be impressed and amazed. Another trait I find prevalent is NOT mentioning something that they clearly should be able to understand won't meet the customer's needs, based on the explained business need and their supposed expertise with the product they are selling. I have learned to be very diligent, ask exact and detailed questions and get everything in writing, and even that doesn't always work. My favorite was the car salesman who once told me how much happier he was working for Toyota because Mazda's were really unsafe and he hated to watch people he'd sold them to strapping babies into car seats in the back. One way or the other, he was lying (or I suppose he could have just been a sociopath). BTW, I didn't buy either a Toyota or a Mazda and certainly not anything from him. Leah ________________________________ From: Michael Mattias/LS <[email protected]> To: EDI-L <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, April 30, 2011 12:14:00 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Stop Spending Time and Money Digging Through Outdated Trading Partner Data! > The most valuable thing you can learn is never, never, take the word of a > sales > person at face value. I daresay Mrs. H, you must have had a REALLY bad experience with one (or more) sales people. A true professional sales representative is as honest and hardworking as any professional EDI Person, present company included. Michael C. Mattias Tal Systems Inc. Racine WI [email protected] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
