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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
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Xtreme Selling. Xtreme SellingGary Turner, Xtremely funny man in the UK, sent along an email after reading my Alpha Male piece about Confidence Men, mentioning a post he did a while back on testosterone-crazed salesmen. Gotta share it -- here's the link or read below:. [Note: After discussing Xtreme Skiing and other high risk sports, Gary says] ... Well, I think we should adopt similar approaches to everyday working life. For example Extreme Selling. You can start off gently simply by turning up late to critical meetings with your best customer or just start wearing scruffy, unpolished shoes and continue the process by breaking some more of the classic rules a successful salesman should never break and work up slowly. Congratulations, you have just begun to extreme sell.
After some practice you should be confident that you're still able to get the deals at this basic level and then it's time to crank it up to the max extreeeeeeme selling ....walk in to your customer's office and put your feet up on his desk, be verbally abusive to his staff, double your quote then say in a high pitched alien like voice "Oh sorry I appear to have gotten my figures wrong", then double it again, telling the customer you "don't need his fucking lowlife business anyway", put only the words "KISS MY ASS" on your business cards, every time you email a quote to him attach a sickening porno photograph with your customer's head crudely transplanted onto one (or both) of the participants in the scene, sit in his office and put your fingers in your ears whilst shouting "la la la la I'm not listening" whenever the customer attempts to speak, pick up his desk photos and blurt out that you'd like to "do his wife because she's so damn hot", generously sprinkle cocaine into your coffee in front of him, do greatly exaggerated impersonations of the customer and repeat every sentence he says, take a leak in his fishtank and kill his expensive fish, during the meeting take a call from your Ho in which you say "Yeah baby, just let me get finished with this fuckhead and I'll be right over to wack him, no way is he movin in on my street" and if after all that, if against all the odds you're a good enough salesman to still get the deal signed - congratulations, you have just become an Extreme Salesman. And do not miss what he did today on The Support Economy.
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Walter Isaacson, the chairman of CNN (ed. Another AOL/TW company), said that he would leave the network this spring to lead a nonprofit research center specializing in public policy issues. By Jim Rutenberg.
New York Times: Business
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AOL Time Warner stands as a casualty of Stephen Case's salesmanship and the credulousness of Time Warner executives. By Steve Lohr and Seth Schiesel.
New York Times: Business
Attention AOL/TW shareholders prepare yourselves for additional massive write offs and stock price declines during 2003.
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Flamenco Networks hopes its software will tap into the growing need among large corporations for Web services management and security. [CNET News.com]
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Announcements this week from companies big and small are pushing the monitor farther and farther away from the computer by sending the video signal over a Wi-Fi connection. [Internet Product News]
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The record business is bracing for a seismic shift and is increasingly reconciled to the fact that the current priorities of senior executives are outmoded. By Laura M. Holson and Geraldine Fabrikant. [New York Times: Business]
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