I finally have two electronic Tiny TRS-80 Model III miniatures up for sale.
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I'm not sure whether they will sell at $84 before shipping & tax so if these don't sell then I guess they'll be pretty unique!
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Note: The display is driven by a wee board that runs either CircuitPython or Arduino programs, not an emulated version of TRS-DOS or another retro-OS. That said, it also has WiFi and BluetoothLE so pros and cons. 😸 #miniatures#retrocomputing#sales#trs80 https://store.transmutable.com/l/e-trs-80-model-iii
Would you be interested in a bot account from Boiling Steam (separate account) that regularly tells you when there are good games on sale (discount) that happen to work very well on Linux / Steam Deck? #boilingsteam#bot#linux#linuxgaming#games#sales
Salespeople of Mastodon: How are you getting my mobile number to cold call me? I would really like it if you did not have my phone number, but I don't know where I need to go to get it taken down.
So, apparently #sales produced a presentation on #PenetrationTesting that I'm supposed to hold... with a lot of garbage slides. Great!
I do not dislike sales people per-se, but please ask us what our job is instead of second-guessing it and producing a, excuse my language, a steaming pile of shit. :-(
But sending an out-of-the-blue meeting invitation to a cold lead is the wrong move, ONE-HUNDRED PERCENT of the time.
Don’t do this. Don’t ever do this.
It’s not chutzpah. It’s not being a go-getter. It is NOT standard practice, either for corporate sales in general or your industry in particular. It is sure as fuck neither taking the initiative nor being proactive.
Last week I lost my #job for the 3rd time in 2023: once to a bankruptcy, once to a toxic CEO, and last week due to an re-org by a parent company that eliminated my position.
Background in #solar#sales#leadership and fiction writing (MFA in creative #writing). Can you pass this around and reply if you have any job leads? I have 0 runway left at this point.
#Sales person for Veritas cold calls me to talk about storage solutions. Tell him I'm not interested, don't have the time and am not the person to talk about this to.
He ask me who, I tell him that finding that out is part of his job, and I ain't gonna do it for him.
I've mentioned before they make up their own estimated #delivery#dates, which are more #optimistic than the carriers themselves estimate. They do this to drive #sales; #buyers are less likely to buy if it'll take a long time to get to them.
Today: buyer in #Australia ordered, delivery by surface #mail. #Canada Post estimates 24-84 business days by surface. That's up to 17 weeks, plus extra because of holidays in there.
“Unimaginable cuts to the fire department. Unimaginable cuts to the police department, unavoidable cuts to our libraries,” said Johnson in an event held at the Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Historic Mitchell St....
Ich entwickle bald eine #coldcall Allergie :-( Und ich glaube das ist mühsam für die Nasen die mich anrufen um mir $irgendwas andrehen wollen... #sales#fail#it#rant
I get a lot of marketing emails from infosec vendors. I believe most reach-outs are automated, since I am not a lucrative lead at all. Nevertheless - here’s my shortlist of sales tactics that would actually work for me.
Build a good product. Get a trustworthy person on your advisory board and let them speak highly of you on social media or podcast. Your product is validated through them putting their credibility on the line.
Assume I understand technology and risk. Hell, I’ve spent a quarter-century doing this shit already. ”Relying on existing measures is no longer sufficient” is an actual example from this week that absolutely doesn’t convey that assumption.
I know you have sales targets to meet, and I don’t want you to waste time on someone who is just exploring. I’d just want to know what the product does (technically, not in the abstract), and if it sounds right, read the product docs.
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“Unimaginable cuts to the fire department. Unimaginable cuts to the police department, unavoidable cuts to our libraries,” said Johnson in an event held at the Mitchell Street Library, 906 W. Historic Mitchell St....
Online Sample Sale — Amicale Cashmere, SofiaCashmere, Bruno Magli, Hickey Freeman — Men (260samplesale.com)