lbrown@apctrc.UUCP (Lawrence H. Brown) (03/04/88)
In article <10375@ut-sally.UUCP> bryan@mothra.cs.utexas.edu writes:
+ Try using dark characters on a light background--the characters will
=appear solid, and hence sharper. Pick something easy on the eyes. Black on
=light green or amber works for me. The first thing I ever did an an Amiga was
=to change those ugly default colors with preferences. Boy was the salesman
=pissed--he didn't know how to change them back! 8-}
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Sounds like that terrible disease, stupideous salesmanitis.
I may have thought of a cure:
We had the same problem. The manager lost a couple of his intellegent sales
people and had to try and get the newbies up to speed, so they could sell
the system. In the meantime, everyone is frustrated because the people
don't know enough to help the customers.
I don't know if this is as annoying to others as it is to me, but it really
frosts my shorts to see potential amiga sales go down the drain just
because the salesperson doesn't know what to emphasize.
What I did was talk the manager into hiring me as a "knowledge consultant"
and I came in and trained the salespeople on the highlights of the Amiga.
What things to push, what killer demos to show, how to navigate the DOS,
and where to get the answers if they didn't know them.
Twas a triple win from my standpoint, because:
*1. The salesman knew more faster, hence better sales, hence more users
2. The manager doesn't have to spend as much time helping.
3. More users means more outsiders get to find out about the Amiga
*4. Improved the relationship between the store and users group
*5. I made some serious bucks...which I spent on a Memory board.
I'd strongly recommend some of you local guru's, if you have some training
experience, and have some local salespeople who think intuition is what
their wives have, a mouse is something cats eat, and a workbench is where
you rebuild engines, etc.... go volunteer or even negotiate some parttime $$$.
--
Lawrence H. Brown
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