Not a Sales Guy

So I had this demo to do for customer prospect.

The customer was in Japan. The demo was at 8pm my time, 10am their time the next day.

The day of, I get all these emails copied to a bunch of execs that are all "Rah, Rah, Rah, Shish Boom, Bah! This is a done deal if the demo goes well!"

No pressure right?

So how'd it go?

• Could have been better.
• I could have been more prepared.
• The senior architect could have found a quieter room (one without a bunch of kids running around in the background) from which to call.
• The prospect didn't realize we were still in development.
• The prospect pointed out a glaring inconsistency that's currently under discussion, which I forgot to mention.

Stay tuned next week to see if I still have a job.

At least the drive into work this morning during the sunrise was nice. It's been a while since I've seen one of those.

- b