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Originally Posted by Due
I think this is a big reason for a big decline in peoples general knowledge and it also leads people to be less knowledgeable about what their company actually do.
I'm currently at the MWC and when looking at the different booths many of them contain powerful words but no statement.
I walked up to a rather big 2 story booth after looking at the "keywords" they had written on their booth, they where related to something I was searching for. I asked them what their services was about and the guy in the booth couldn't give me any real answer. He concluded that it would probably be a good idea to schedule a meeting with his sales director the same day.
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Well. You also have to realize. 99.9% of the time people who run booth at trade shows are marketing people, not sales people or technical people. They are just there to hand out literature and setup meetings for the future. This is common place. As I mentioned in my last post. Most of the top companies in the world are work from home. Most of the people that I deal with who work for companies like VMware and Cisco are some of the brightest people in the tech industry. As I said before. I do believe working from home for yourself is one thing. It is easy to get lazy. But if you are working for a company where you have 2-3 conference calls a day. Going out on meeting with clients etc. If you dont produce. you are going to lose your job. I am sure the people working from home is not the downfall of Yahoo. I am sure it was google that caused it. Yahoo fell asleep years ago, and google came and took the spot. Simple as that. No matter who works there. They are climbing from behind. A good example of this is one I mentioned in VMware. They are a leader in there space. They have some of the best technologies and innovations, and almost everyone works from home, maybe for the exception of customer service reps and such. But all sales people and engineers are remote workers for the most part. They are more like google then yahoo.
The simple fact is. I sell technologies to small to medium sized businesses and remote workers are a huge initiative in many of these companies (companies from 100-1000 employees roughly). There is just huge cost savings in this. You can pay for space for 25 people and have 100 people employed. Do you know what the monthly savings on something like this is in NYC? 100's of thousands of dollars a year.