What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
with in the last 2 days, we lost a 31 store company , and 3 single store companies to one of our biggest competitors.
What was the reason for the lost clients?
Money, obviously.
Could have been shitty customer service.
The Company that took our clients has no Service. They Wont send someone on site, they are Call Center Only, "oh you have a printer down? I'll send one to you.. Oh you only have one Printer? I'll Over night it."
Nothing wrong with that as long as you are prepared for that situation.
The 31 store company requires on site service M-Sunday 8am to 10pm if they have a printer or other down.
They wont stay with this company.
They have too or pay out a potential 5 year contract's damages.
And surprisingly, They want to try it out.
Yeah if the customer wants to try something new, good for them. Let them deal with the damages of it. Not your bag to handle.
Until they want to come back to using our equipment and we have to sell them all new equipment to get them back to where they should be running properly..
one could argue that your sales team did a bad job of showing cost over 5 years of your solution compared to the competition, otherwise the owners likely wouldn't have left.
many people are afraid of the upfront equipment costs - they are fleeced by the "free hardware" aspect.
Tell them you can do a free hardware aspect too, with a 5 year ironclad term, but of course, the cost of the hardware is made up and then some some some by the spread payments for said hardware. But then, some don't have capital to buy up front, so having that be an operational expense is somethign they can budget for.
Our Sales team is one person who sits in an office here for 2 days but actively does calls and follow ups with their sites in Des Moines.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
with in the last 2 days, we lost a 31 store company , and 3 single store companies to one of our biggest competitors.
What was the reason for the lost clients?
Money, obviously.
Could have been shitty customer service.
The Company that took our clients has no Service. They Wont send someone on site, they are Call Center Only, "oh you have a printer down? I'll send one to you.. Oh you only have one Printer? I'll Over night it."
Nothing wrong with that as long as you are prepared for that situation.
The 31 store company requires on site service M-Sunday 8am to 10pm if they have a printer or other down.
They wont stay with this company.
They have too or pay out a potential 5 year contract's damages.
And surprisingly, They want to try it out.
Yeah if the customer wants to try something new, good for them. Let them deal with the damages of it. Not your bag to handle.
Until they want to come back to using our equipment and we have to sell them all new equipment to get them back to where they should be running properly..
one could argue that your sales team did a bad job of showing cost over 5 years of your solution compared to the competition, otherwise the owners likely wouldn't have left.
many people are afraid of the upfront equipment costs - they are fleeced by the "free hardware" aspect.
Tell them you can do a free hardware aspect too, with a 5 year ironclad term, but of course, the cost of the hardware is made up and then some some some by the spread payments for said hardware. But then, some don't have capital to buy up front, so having that be an operational expense is somethign they can budget for.
Our Sales team is one person who sits in an office here for 2 days but actively does calls and follow ups with their sites in Des Moines.
Which is 10000% why we lost our customers. No one out there talking to people, setting meetings and going forward.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
with in the last 2 days, we lost a 31 store company , and 3 single store companies to one of our biggest competitors.
What was the reason for the lost clients?
Money, obviously.
Could have been shitty customer service.
The Company that took our clients has no Service. They Wont send someone on site, they are Call Center Only, "oh you have a printer down? I'll send one to you.. Oh you only have one Printer? I'll Over night it."
Nothing wrong with that as long as you are prepared for that situation.
The 31 store company requires on site service M-Sunday 8am to 10pm if they have a printer or other down.
They wont stay with this company.
They have too or pay out a potential 5 year contract's damages.
And surprisingly, They want to try it out.
Yeah if the customer wants to try something new, good for them. Let them deal with the damages of it. Not your bag to handle.
Until they want to come back to using our equipment and we have to sell them all new equipment to get them back to where they should be running properly..
one could argue that your sales team did a bad job of showing cost over 5 years of your solution compared to the competition, otherwise the owners likely wouldn't have left.
many people are afraid of the upfront equipment costs - they are fleeced by the "free hardware" aspect.
Tell them you can do a free hardware aspect too, with a 5 year ironclad term, but of course, the cost of the hardware is made up and then some some some by the spread payments for said hardware. But then, some don't have capital to buy up front, so having that be an operational expense is somethign they can budget for.
Our Sales team is one person who sits in an office here for 2 days but actively does calls and follow ups with their sites in Des Moines.
Which is 10000% why we lost our customers. No one out there talking to people, setting meetings and going forward.
I was about to say - 'And???' but you beat me to it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
with in the last 2 days, we lost a 31 store company , and 3 single store companies to one of our biggest competitors.
What was the reason for the lost clients?
Money, obviously.
Could have been shitty customer service.
The Company that took our clients has no Service. They Wont send someone on site, they are Call Center Only, "oh you have a printer down? I'll send one to you.. Oh you only have one Printer? I'll Over night it."
Nothing wrong with that as long as you are prepared for that situation.
The 31 store company requires on site service M-Sunday 8am to 10pm if they have a printer or other down.
They wont stay with this company.
They have too or pay out a potential 5 year contract's damages.
And surprisingly, They want to try it out.
Yeah if the customer wants to try something new, good for them. Let them deal with the damages of it. Not your bag to handle.
Until they want to come back to using our equipment and we have to sell them all new equipment to get them back to where they should be running properly..
one could argue that your sales team did a bad job of showing cost over 5 years of your solution compared to the competition, otherwise the owners likely wouldn't have left.
many people are afraid of the upfront equipment costs - they are fleeced by the "free hardware" aspect.
Tell them you can do a free hardware aspect too, with a 5 year ironclad term, but of course, the cost of the hardware is made up and then some some some by the spread payments for said hardware. But then, some don't have capital to buy up front, so having that be an operational expense is somethign they can budget for.
Our Sales team is one person who sits in an office here for 2 days but actively does calls and follow ups with their sites in Des Moines.
Which is 10000% why we lost our customers. No one out there talking to people, setting meetings and going forward.
I was about to say - 'And???' but you beat me to it.
here's the kicker ! they were told by the president of the company to hire a sales person so that this didn't happen, and has had meeting after meeting about getting one in. Still No talk of Them actually committing to this.
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Got Some Conky look going on..
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
pretty much got approval for my leave. been wanting to go on this trip i've been preparing for, for 30+ years.
now it looks like it may be washed out, an ex tropical cyclone is dumping inches of rain all over the place where I want to go.
link textWell that sucks, what's teh trip?
Canning Stock Route - link text
America's most well known is the Chisolm Trail. It's in Texas, but even growing up in NY we learned about it (more than Texans are taught, it turns out.) Famously, it goes right through Fort Worth, TX. I'm actually looking at a house on the trail later this week.
https://www.fortworth.com/blog/post/10-things-to-know-about-the-chisholm-trail/
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Updating my LE certs.
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just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
Been there before.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
I feel your pain today. Even home is not safe for me.... I'd be happy with a full tank of gas in my truck, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter, and an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere right now. It's just been one of those weeks... and it's only Tuesday.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Updating my LE certs.
Manually?
For a force renewal, yes. Only a few fortunately.
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Just ordered some new wireless headphones, can't wait for them to get here!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Updating my LE certs.
Manually?
For a force renewal, yes. Only a few fortunately.
Sad that you need to do the force.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
I feel your pain today. Even home is not safe for me.... I'd be happy with a full tank of gas in my truck, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter, and an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere right now. It's just been one of those weeks... and it's only Tuesday.
that doesn't sound like a great week.
you've piqued my interest. what would you do with a full tank of gas, an invertor & a parking lot?? -
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter,
Any device that claims to be a 1500 watt inverter will not provide 1500 watts through a cigarette lighter power port. You could make one, and have a nice vehicle fire to go along with it.
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Bedtime here.
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Anyone here use GrayLog 3.2?
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter,
Any device that claims to be a 1500 watt inverter will not provide 1500 watts through a cigarette lighter power port. You could make one, and have a nice vehicle fire to go along with it.
Hopefully the fuse to the cigarette lighter will blow before a fire lol
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just walked in. just want to walk straight back out.
I feel your pain today. Even home is not safe for me.... I'd be happy with a full tank of gas in my truck, a 1500 watt power inverter that runs off a cigarette lighter, and an empty parking lot in the middle of nowhere right now. It's just been one of those weeks... and it's only Tuesday.
that doesn't sound like a great week.
you've piqued my interest. what would you do with a full tank of gas, an invertor & a parking lot??I should have specified an abandoned parking lot, lol. I would have locked myself in the truck and played on my laptop for a day or three, bio breaks not withstanding.
Oddly enough, I'm having a significantly better day today than I had since Thursday of last week. Earlier during the week, my roof sprung a leak in a NEW place. Thursday, Washing machine died, Friday, wife got sick. Cousin came up to help me another leak, and we wound up having to tear off that 20 x 10 section of house down to the trusses. and then rebuild it back to good again. (It's being tested today, lol. No leaks, so far!) So we fixed two leaks over Saturday and Sunday. We found another section (on the other side of this A frame) that needs to be ripped & replaced, meaning I gotta find another $500 for materials to fix a section of roof he found while we were fixing the other two leaks.
My Day job has been a PITA. I took Monday off to clean up some of the construction, take kiddo to doctor, and fix Washing Machine. Tuesday, work was a PITA from me being off on Monday and general stupidness happening all over the place. Today, I'm home with sick kiddo. If there's a male version of PMS, I was definitely suffering from the last few days, lol.
