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No offence but you clearly have never worked for “the vendor side”!

Do you know how many thousands of time wasters you get a month? People comparing you to the competition, trying to get a master class from you so they can pose as a consultant for your technology, learning from you so they can apply for a job… the list goes on and on.

Give them all swag…?! Hahahaha there would be people lining up to waste your time and get free swag.

Thank god for the BDRs making sure you’re not some underling with no budget, authority, need or time pressure. Yep that’s BANT for you!

Discounting discussions should be simple: you buy more? You pay less. You commit for longer? You pay less. Simple.

It’s painful when the prospect start calling you expensive, saying the competition is cheaper, that there could be a “partnership” because they are the hottest newest crypto-quantum-ai to revolutionise web3.

Gimme a break!




Weird comment. Tough shit? That’s sales. The OP is just telling you what works if you actually want to sell.

We do most of what he said because it works. So what if you have to humour some dick? Don’t be a sales rep then.


You missed my point. I’m telling you it _doesnt_ work.

If you’re a small startup and no one knows you, sure, give everyone a demo, but it’s not scalable.

For people that want to see a demo and just wanna know price there’s the website and recorded demos.




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