Comments on: Diary of a Cloud vs. Enterprise Software Salesperson – Day 983 of My Sales Cycle http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/05/29/diary-of-a-cloud-vs-enterprise-software-salesperson-day-983-of-my-sales-cycle/ Musings of a Reformed Private Equity Operator Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:02:43 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: DevelopmentCorporate » Blog Archive » 10 Marketing Lessons From @shitmydadsays Tweets http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/05/29/diary-of-a-cloud-vs-enterprise-software-salesperson-day-983-of-my-sales-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-2043 DevelopmentCorporate » Blog Archive » 10 Marketing Lessons From @shitmydadsays Tweets Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:10:24 +0000 http://www.developmentcorporate.com/?p=705#comment-2043 [...] A colleague of mine is a pretty regular blogger and often he comes up with some real gems.  Ramon Chen blogs at Cloud ‘N Clear.  Every now and then Ramon writes a post that is extremely funny and instructive at the same time.  Check out an earlier post from him about the battles between a traditional enterprise software sales person and a SaaS sales executive entitled ‘Diary of a Cloud vs. Enterprise Software Salesperson – Day 983 of My Sales Cycle.’ [...] [...] A colleague of mine is a pretty regular blogger and often he comes up with some real gems.  Ramon Chen blogs at Cloud ‘N Clear.  Every now and then Ramon writes a post that is extremely funny and instructive at the same time.  Check out an earlier post from him about the battles between a traditional enterprise software sales person and a SaaS sales executive entitled ‘Diary of a Cloud vs. Enterprise Software Salesperson – Day 983 of My Sales Cycle.’ [...]

]]> By: sandhill heidi http://www.developmentcorporate.com/2009/05/29/diary-of-a-cloud-vs-enterprise-software-salesperson-day-983-of-my-sales-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-531 sandhill heidi Sat, 30 May 2009 16:33:21 +0000 http://www.developmentcorporate.com/?p=705#comment-531 Hmmm. Looks to me like neither rep is in control of their process - wasting both their time and that of their client's. I see no commission coming for anybody - nor a customer that will see any personal or professional gain out of this exercise. More waste of probably excellent talent prohibited to providing real productivity for anyone. The story would be funny if it didn't happen all to frequently. Quite a sad comment on the state of professional selling competency in the IT industry. Hmmm. Looks to me like neither rep is in control of their process – wasting both their time and that of their client’s.
I see no commission coming for anybody – nor a customer that will see any personal or professional gain out of this exercise.

More waste of probably excellent talent prohibited to providing real productivity for anyone.

The story would be funny if it didn’t happen all to frequently. Quite a sad comment on the state of professional selling competency in the IT industry.

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