http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/ Product management, product marketing, and the ugly side of software product development. Tue, 15 May 2012 21:21:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-6573 Stephen Konig Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:27:21 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-6573 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT How true!! @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's [sales] Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/sbWPFDZe #prodmgmt</span></span> RT How true!! @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's [sales] Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/sbWPFDZe #prodmgmt

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-6570 Val Workman Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:15:48 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-6570 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">@chrisstroud We need to go back to the blondes @crankypm mentions in http://t.co/1ilYmbHA what was that? It might work! #prodmgmt</span></span> @chrisstroud We need to go back to the blondes @crankypm mentions in http://t.co/1ilYmbHA what was that? It might work! #prodmgmt

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-6571 Rich Mironov Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:13:38 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-6571 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/sTUy7BDJ (shabbier event, same annoyances) #prodmgmt</span></span> RT @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/sTUy7BDJ (shabbier event, same annoyances) #prodmgmt

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-6569 Dave Daniels Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:10:01 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-6569 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/8CXsts0t #prodmgmt | Anyone fired yet? #saleskickoff</span></span> RT @crankypm: To honor Dysfuncto's Kickoff tonight, crankypm reminisces: http://t.co/8CXsts0t #prodmgmt | Anyone fired yet? #saleskickoff

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-2916 The Cranky Product Manager Responds to the Cranky Sales Engineer - Part 2 | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:12:40 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-2916 [...] Manager’s long-winded response to the Cranky Sales Engineer’s diatribe on training at Sales Kickoff.  See part 1 [...] [...] Manager’s long-winded response to the Cranky Sales Engineer’s diatribe on training at Sales Kickoff.  See part 1 [...]

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-878 Persona Non Grata | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:41:29 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-878 [...] OK, contrary to popular theory, the Cranky Product Manager is not dead.  She blames her lack of blog posts on the holiday madness, especially her miserable attempt to play Santa for her infant. And then, just as the holidays wrapped up and the last thank you note was written, the Cranky Product Manager was held against her will in a smoke-filled hotel for a entire week, forced to give product training to a bunch of hungover sales droids. And then attend their booze-drenched, endless awards ceremony. [...] [...] OK, contrary to popular theory, the Cranky Product Manager is not dead.  She blames her lack of blog posts on the holiday madness, especially her miserable attempt to play Santa for her infant. And then, just as the holidays wrapped up and the last thank you note was written, the Cranky Product Manager was held against her will in a smoke-filled hotel for a entire week, forced to give product training to a bunch of hungover sales droids. And then attend their booze-drenched, endless awards ceremony. [...]

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Shameless Begging | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:23:23 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-877 [...] She is a Product Management Goddess and no one does it as fantastically as she, ask anyone, and 2) She’s not in Sales where they give you 4 or 5 awards a year if you manage to wipe your own ass without the help of [...] [...] She is a Product Management Goddess and no one does it as fantastically as she, ask anyone, and 2) She’s not in Sales where they give you 4 or 5 awards a year if you manage to wipe your own ass without the help of [...]

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-868 About Readers of This Here Blog | The Cranky Product Manager Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:27:26 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-868 [...] are unique to being female in this crazy software product world. Such as being forced to dance with 4-5 geeky men at once at any work-related function with a [...] [...] are unique to being female in this crazy software product world. Such as being forced to dance with 4-5 geeky men at once at any work-related function with a [...]

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-814 Another cranky PM Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:41:35 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-814 <p>ROOM SHARING: Please for the love of God just shoot the person who came up with this horrible policy. Two of the 4 companies I've worked for as a PM have the dreaded room-sharing policy. Over the years I have learned a trick: if you go to HR and spring for the extra $90 (out of pocket, of course) you can get your own room. Of course, it makes you look like an anti-social bitch but hey, you're not the one who later has to trade bathroom time with a sales person. (Aw yee-ah, who's the bitch now, huh?) :-) </p> ROOM SHARING: Please for the love of God just shoot the person who came up with this horrible policy. Two of the 4 companies I’ve worked for as a PM have the dreaded room-sharing policy. Over the years I have learned a trick: if you go to HR and spring for the extra $90 (out of pocket, of course) you can get your own room. Of course, it makes you look like an anti-social bitch but hey, you’re not the one who later has to trade bathroom time with a sales person. (Aw yee-ah, who’s the bitch now, huh?) :-)

]]> http://crankypm.com/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/comment-page-1/#comment-815 CrankedToo Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:34:03 +0000 http://crankypm.com/crankypm/2007/01/the-joy-of-sales-meetings/#comment-815 <p>Wow - this is so dead-on. I had to share rooms at my DisfunctoInc until we finally got a real VP who simply told Sales and Marketing that we weren't showing up until we got single rooms. They were quick to oblige when they realized that no one else know how to train or demo the latest product.</p> Wow – this is so dead-on. I had to share rooms at my DisfunctoInc until we finally got a real VP who simply told Sales and Marketing that we weren’t showing up until we got single rooms. They were quick to oblige when they realized that no one else know how to train or demo the latest product.

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