RE:RE:RE:NDAsLol, thanks sandysouci, a great day to have my tires pumped ;)
The point is that customers want to be treated like gold, and if you eat a bit of pride or swallow some early profits, that golden treatment will bring the customers back, and their friends and family, forever......
Cheers!
sandysouci wrote: I don't actually understand the hotdog stand thing, but you're probably right based on your posting history!... (and what if they want relish as well?)...
Aarman4 wrote: I COMPLETELY and WHOLEHEARTEDLY disagree with you Olderguy1. Here is why:
If you ran a hot dog stand, and had customers lining up to buy your hotdogs, and all of them told you they wanted mustard on their hotdog or they would go somewhere else, and they meant it......
You have two choices....
- Get mustard for them and suffer the consequences of maintaining the mustard bottle, shelving it, preserving it, and paying for it out of profits.....OR......
- Tell them that your hotdog stand only caters to the ownership of the stand, and the ownership doesn't think mustard is good for business, so the customers have to deal with it.
If you take option 1, then you understand that sales is ALL about meeting your customers needs in a profitable way, and you will likely GROW your customer base and be a profitable hotdog stand.
If you take option 2, then you choose to believe that sales is not about the customer, and many of your customers will look for other ways to sooth their hunger.
One option is how business succeeds, the other option is how business fails.
As somebody who was in sales for many years, and humbly quite good at it, I wil tell you that anybody who chooses not to treat customers like gold is destined to have no customers......BUT, at least they won;t have to sign NDA's or buy mustard anymore......
Cheers!
Olderguy1 wrote: PYR and HPQ seem to like to sign NDAs with potential customers. I think that is detrimental to the price of their stock. IMO NDAs only serve to benefit the customers, not PYR or HPQ. If the customers are relly interested in the products PYR and HPQ have to sell, they would waive the NDAs if PYR and HPQ refused to sign them.