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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 327.01+2.5%Jan 16 9:30 AM EST
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To: 10K a day who wrote (45696)4/21/2001 7:53:06 AM
From: 10K a day  Read Replies (2) of 70976
 
so this dude calls me up.
says' he wants me to sell his product.
but he wants to disuade me from selling his gear.
because frankly.
the margins suck.
and what he knows about selling.
all he knows about selling.
is that i will fail.
and he wants to disuade me
from selling his stuff
because i will fail.
and i'm thinking.
hey.
that's all fine and dandy.
never sold a product.
in my life.
give me an idea.
you want me to sell an idea.
i'll sell an idea.
give me some energy.
you want me to sell some energy.
(NOT P. G AND E)
energy.
but *energy*.
I'll sell it.
so the dude says.
i got these 15
products.
and i want to disuade you
from selling these 15 products.
and i'm like hey.
i beleive in the stuff.
it's tech.
i believe in it.
i think there is opportunity here.
and let me try.
let me try to move your stuff.
it's nothing off my back.
but my time.
let me try.
to move your stuff.
and the guy says great.
i got 15 products.
and i say great.
so i sell the stuff.
first i list the 15 things.
and i quickly learn.
10 of them are junk.
and i can't move the 10
things that are junk.
and he says.
yeah.
but the junk has good margins.
and i want you to move the junk.
and i say great.
i don't believe in the junk.
so how am i goiong to move the junk.
you don't believe in the junk.,
so how am i going to move the junk.
and i say.
hey.
I can move the 5 peices of good stuff.
like hot cakes.
there is big time demand.
#<- I narrow it down to 3 ->
for the 5 peices of good stuff.
and i believe in the good stuff.
and i can move the good stuff.
and let me move the good stuff.
and he says.
yeah but the good stuff.
it has no margins.
and you will make no money.
so i move the good stuff.
and the good stuff is selling.
like hot cakes.
and i never moved a product.
in my life.
but i sell the crap out of the good stuff.
because frankly,
it's tech.
and i believe in it.
and i move the good stuff.
no margin.
but somehow.
someway.
i'm making good money.
selling the good stuff.
problem is .
the dude wants me to sell his junk.
because he's got good margins.
on the junk.
and he wants me to sell it.
and i can't move it.
i can move his good stuff.
i can make margins.
on his good stuff.
even though he tells me i won't
make margins on his good stuff.
so we got a problem.
but i don't realize it.
we got a problem.
because suddenly
he says.
hey.
your not moving my junk.
so i'm cutting you off of my good stuff.
you don't sell my junk.
you don't sell my good stuff.
that's it
end of story.
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