A co-worker of mine was chatting yesterday with me and our boss and said she’d spoken with over the weekend. This is a name anyone would recognize, he lives in the mid-peninsula area and has been making great rock since the mid-’60s, but I don’t think it’s necessary to name names. But I’m telling this here because it’s a perfect explanation for why I’m not now and have never been a salesperson.
So my co-worker and her husband are hanging out with a fairly well-known inventor and good friend of theirs. As they talk the inventor mentions he just did some work with , who also happens to be a bit of a geek. She jumps on this and says let’s call , she’s sure he would be interested in RawSugar. I’m not saying I disagree, but the thought of doing this would just never occur to me.
So the inventor says okay and forks over ‘s cell phone digits. Lo and behold, the man himself answers and is well-mannered enough that he doesn’t even hang up on my co-worker. She quickly explains our service and suggests that he ought to build a directory around the geek hobby that the inventor had worked with him on which, to be clear, is nothing to do with music. says “Are you kidding?”
My co-worker, though, is a very good salesperson and so doesn’t give up after just one try. She gives him some more of the schpiel. Finally, says he’ll check out the site. I see all the new user registrations, so you can be certain I have my eyes wide open in case he does log on.
Aside: Not quite the same cache as but not bad either, we did have James ‘Father of Java’ Gosling create an account and try out RawSugar today. He even sent a trouble ticket in and politely sent back the additional information I asked to get for debugging.
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