I have been Profiled?

So I went to a great dinner tonight with Jenifer, her grandparents and parents for their anniversary. I had taken the Vette and met Jenifer there. So after the dinner I was going down Vine (The main route through town) and came to a stop light. I know what you are thinking, I am innocent till proven guilty.

Jenifers grandpa pulled up next to me in the passing lane and reved his engine. At green he squealed his tires and took off. No, I admit that I gave it a short go till 30 and was a couple of car lenghts ahead by that time. However I did not break the tires loose.

So as I got on interstate here came the flashing lights up after me at about 90 mph. Great. He was running my information for "Excessive display of horsepower"

The officer was less than friendly and gave me no chance to discuss what had happened. After returning to my car after running insurance and licence he ask me what was going on. I informed him that I did give Ralph a go, however I did not squeal the tires. (To be honest, Z rated tires do not squeal. If you go to a drag race have you heard squealing tires? No. How do I know that Z rated tires do not squeal? Someone must have told me:)) Anyway, the officer told me that he did not witness the tires squealing and gave me a warning. Point being I was profiled, a younger guy in a red vette versus older guy in seabring. I guess I see his point.

I will have to add that I have never received a ticket. EVER. That probably helped.

Creating a Brand?

I was speaking with someone today about creating a brand. No not a company brand, rather your brand. You know, your name and yourself! Do you own your own name as a domain name? For those of you not in the industry that is the www.yourname.com. If not, why not? You planning on changing your name? It is $10 a year. A web site is $5 a month. You can put what ever you want on it. Or a blog, like the one you are viewing is free!

We spend a lot of time creating company brands, however the one brand that will never leave you is you. Why not spend some time there?

The Golf Tournament

Had a great time playing in the AMBUCKS fund raiser golf tournament. It seems like in sales and in golf the loudest person on the course, and the one that brags the most is the least capable. If you find yourself having to raise your voice or constantly being the center of attention is it because you are making up for something?

My Diskeeper Experience

So I had the perfect unit to try Diskeeper (A defrag tool). My 2 1/2 old work laptop. It is a Centrino unit with 2 gb of ram running XP Pro. To be honest it is starting to slow down. To be exact it was taking about 6 min to boot.

I installed the Diskeeper. Took about 2 min and was simple. Went to the console and realized that the base install does everything I need. It runs in the background when there is nothing else running. According to the interface I was heavily fragmented and needed lots of help (Ok I added that part) It ran for about 2 days in the background before it reported running in the green. The boot time? 2.5 min WOW, performance is improved (According to the interface 21%) It gets smarter over time by learning what files I use more often.

So my review is the product works, is quick and improves performance. Drawbacks? Well the $60 price tag plus annual maint. This seems a bit high, but for 20% increase in performance this is rather cheap.

Another dissapointment?

So a vendor promised to send something and I even sent a reminder email on Friday. Another rep that promised and did not deliver. Is it really that big a deal to simply say you cannot deliver it? Or simply let someone know it will be a little longer?

Remember that when you are in sales. It is really that simple. Return people's calls, do what you say you would and be honest. Lets face it. The competition wont!

The other video

WWGD? Reading What Would Google Do? AND Picture of perfect sales team.

And as per request, the picture of my perfect sales team....:)


Back to Google.

It has a really interesting perspective on business. Really in some way contrary to the way we as VAR's do business. It is simple. Charge the minimum to make money (Or break even) and the people and money will come. Versus charging what the market will bare.

I am just starting my Google journey but it has been educational already.