How To Sell Your Product 101

If I ask "please give me prices for all Type-X units you support, including volume discount levels & amounts if appropriate", the correct answer is "here are prices for each Type-X unit, and here are the volume discount levels & amounts". It is not "did you read our brochure? There are several Type-X units. Which one do you want priced? Also, what quantities are you interested in?". When you only have three of the damn things in the catalogue, I hardly suspect it will take you more than five minutes to throw together a pricing matrix. Which, of course, you should already have to hand.

promoting your employer

If you like the content of this site and would like me to continue providing this service, please print it on a HP printer. Print every single page, and also print for all your friends and family, print for your dog and cat, and maybe even for complete strangers.

holy SHIT

I just got a wholly unexpected bonus cheque. Sizeable, too.

sudden rush of goodness

Right, there's the bonus. There's also the big project I'm not talking about for which I have, well, lived up to my job title (Systems Architect) and damn well architected the system (modulo backfilling of details). I've gotten two parts of another project working today. And in a buoyant mood, I emailed the nice ComReg person to ask what sort of tracking options I have for my complaint, and she replied (a) eircom are obliged to contact me within 48 hours and resolve the issue within 10 days and (b) if I've not heard from 'em tomorrow to call her on her direct dial. Yay!

only in Ireland

There's a front-page advert on the Irish Times today from An Post (that would be our national postal service) asking people not to send any mail to Tuam or Drogheda due to a backlog in the sorting offices for those areas.

No, I'm not making this up.