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Before that I ran my own semiconductor brokerage abd the approach was the sane. "what about your job sucks?" "it sucks when I plan a build for Monday and 49 ch
by goatherders 10y ago
Before that I ran my own semiconductor brokerage abd the approach was the sane. "what about your job sucks?" "it sucks when I plan a build for Monday and 49 chips show up but 1 doesn't arrive until Wednesday. So my customer is mad that we are behind schedule and I pay mt staff to stand around.". So I started selling complete kits. One vendor, One PO and one box of components that arrives on time with everything in it.
Doesn't matter that I now have a known brand behind me. Customers want the same essential thing: That you care about their success. I still answer my cell in the middle of the night during an outage because clients want to know i care and feel their pain because my company is impacting their ability to be successful, to pay employees, to pay bills, to feed their families.
The point is the same throughout and hits at my philosophy. I don't sell servers or hosting or support. We sell good days. We sell a developer wowing his or her boss. We sell an absence of worry that a client will be pulled away from time with their family to solve a web issue. We don't sell RAM and processors. We sell good days.
- primitivesuave 10y agoThis is one of the most inspirational sentiments I've read on HN, thank you for sharing!
- Uptrenda 10y agoGot to say. That last paragraph was impressive. Wow.
- ddingus 10y agoAwesome sauce. This is all spot on. The beauty of it is the real friends you make and what it is all worth. There are calls I answered at O'dark thirty 10 years ago that are HUGE today. People starting careers, people I helped to get there. They remember, and when I need or ask, they return consideration I gave them. Or, I walk into a booming department, shake hands with the person building it, and we go have a lunch to chat about the early days.. They share all they are doing, and it's awesome. When people know you know it makes sense to get there more than just do a deal, everyone values that.