RE: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Chuck Larrieu
As you know, Brad, the more expensive equipment you sell, the fatter the pay envelope :-> As someone new to the sales side, but a tightwad customer for a number of years, I probably err to the other side. But yes, in my experience as a customer, I often ran into "solutions" which addressed ma

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Nick Brooks
One other suggestion, would be to use the Presales Helpline. The reseller option, mind you. Chuck Larrieu wrote: > > As you know, Brad, the more expensive equipment you sell, the fatter the pay > envelope :-> > > As someone new to the sales side, but a tightwad customer for a number of >

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Brad Ellis
Oz, Ive got some 515's in stock if you need one! -Brad Ellis CCIE#5796 ""Oz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 002701bfe351$7fe98610$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:002701bfe351$7fe98610$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Brad, > All is not well in the cisco sales area.. I had a sales qoute from cisco > that

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Brad Ellis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 9:04 AM Subject: Re: Pre-sales People > That does sound strange, I did work as a pre -sales guy for a while. I > basically knew most customers don't want to spend lots of cash on equipment, > but it was important to think about

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread nigel samuel
That does sound strange, I did work as a pre -sales guy for a while. I basically knew most customers don't want to spend lots of cash on equipment, but it was important to think about the future growth. Of course some customers were max out on their network, so tossing money at the problem was ne

RE: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Chuck Larrieu
n sales school? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brad Ellis Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 7:22 AM To: nigel samuel; Cisco Group Study Subject:Re: Pre-sales People The pre-sales engineer's response was: The 400

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
>- Original Message - >From: "nigel samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brad Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cisco Group Study" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 9:04 AM >Subject: Re: Pre-sales People > > > >

RE: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
;From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Brad >Ellis >Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 7:22 AM >To:nigel samuel; Cisco Group Study >Subject: Re: Pre-sales People > >The pre-sales engineer's response was: > >The 4000 series is not a &qu

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Dick Silva
/ It sounds like Cisco is starting to get the Microsoft mentality. We're it and you "ain't" got no choice. This is unfortunate. The other cause could be bonuses. ERP brings bigger revenues and larger sales meaning bigger bonuses to. you guessed it. , the execs. And the edicts filter on down

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread hal9001
Cisco "Ride - the wave seems" to be the slogan! Sorry! Karl - Original Message - From: "Dick Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Oz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 8:34 PM Subject: Re: Pre-sales People

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-01 Thread Oz
What is kinda sad was the fact that I was calling about an order for cisco works and pricing for about 20 sites each with a switch and router so the total sale would have been easily $200,000. For a rather large enterprise customer.. But thats Ok. I guess he will enjoy the humble pie when I f

RE: Pre-sales People

2000-07-03 Thread Laurent Lange
y IOS version please let me know. Kind Regards Laurent >From: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Brad Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Pre-sales Peop

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-03 Thread Oz
Hmmm kinda a little lost on the TCO logic here .. , A local TFTP server would be cheaper than the double flash cost and would give you a place to store configs also.] If the flash hoses you still can use the router and in some of the smaller machines it's single bank flash , so if the flash is

Re: Pre-sales People

2000-07-03 Thread Brad Ellis
; > Kind Regards > Laurent > > > >From: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Chuck Larrieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Brad Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Pre-sal