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Gary McNamee's avatar

You forgot timing...or maybe you didn't

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Jeff Matlow's avatar

what do you mean about timing?

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Gary McNamee's avatar

UGH. I just wrote out a nice response and lost it! grrrr. 🙄 I guess market timing is a good start. Your salesman (can we call him "Fred?" I always thought Fred a trustworthy name) Are we assuming Fred works in an established company, selling to an established market? If this is the premise, then yup, makes sense. If not, well, that's a lot to put on poor Fred. Regardless, I'm not sure Fred would fare well, good intentions or otherwise, if he was trying to sell a Covid vaccine in 2019.

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Jeff Matlow's avatar

good point. and what i didn't mention is that I had 3 or 4 sales people, yet Fred was the only one not delivering.

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Gary McNamee's avatar

Nothing?

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