The woman at the front of the room, closest to me, knew exactly what was going on, was loving every second of it, and was (mostly) silently laughing her ass off. At a recent working session with a client, we…
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Awkward Meetings – Volume I
Tagged with: awkward, customers, meetings, presentations, sales, tradeshows, travel
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Everything, Marketing
It’s Hard to Focus When You’re Exhausted
I’ve done a lot of travel lately: Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, England, Ukraine, Austria, Croatia, and now South Africa in just the last few weeks. In those places, I’ve had many long, detailed meetings with prospects, customers, and colleagues. During those…
Tagged with: attention, conferences, exhaustion, focus, HQers, meetings, Mind Wide Open, Steven Johnson, travel
Posted in Everything, Marketing
Posted in Everything, Marketing
Hauling Heavy Stuff Around the World is a Pain
At AfricaCom 2015, we’re part of a proof-of-concept (PoC) program in which we’re showing off some pretty slick virtualization technology. You know, the cloud and all that. It turns out that the cloud is very heavy. Or, at least the stuff…
Tagged with: demonstrations, HQers, Matt Farmer, MRV, OpenFlow, the cloud, travel
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Demos Must Work
Surely that’s obvious, right? Well, you’d be surprised. Unless, of course, you’ve tried to give a demo and had it fail miserably…then, naturally, you won’t be surprised at all.
Tagged with: Computer Engineering, demo kitten, demonstrations, HQers, travel, University of Waterloo
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Things HQ people need to understand/appreciate
I’m writing this post from Cape Town, South Africa, one of the most beautifully situated cities in the world. I arrived yesterday, after a 34-hour home-to-hotel journey from my home outside Toronto, Canada. I’m in town to attend AfricaCom 2015.…
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