Aardvark Printing
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There's such a thing as taking an analogy too far.
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Salesperson from large company trying to steal clients?
- Thread starter Stacey K
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Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
There is, and there isn't. What happened is taking your analogy litteral. It's your analogy, how you phrase it is on you.
Stacey K
I like making signs
I think you are right - she's trying to act like a big shot. I found out they or the husband own a bunch of apartment buildings and VBRO's in the area also. I'm wondering if they recently moved here. She only has one mutual friend on FB which I find very odd so she must not know anyone in town. She isn't going to make new friends by trying to steal all our clients LOLI think whoever took this company over is in over their heads if they're actively doing this. We do national accounts (some on their sell sheet), local stuff is secondary work, it comes to us, we don't go seeking it. Bet the reason her husband got her father's business instead of her is because she has zero business skills. If she thinks taking small jobs away from little one person operations will cover the overhead and payroll for that many, she's proving how little she knows about how this works. Probably just wants to act like a big shot for the locals. Or maybe hubby sent her out to do this as "busy work" so she'll get out of his hair
DL Signs
Never go against the family
Place I retired from usually had an average of 40-50 people working there (as many as 200 at times). We designed and manufactured POP/ POS displays, and major trade show exhibits for national/ international accounts. All the Mastercraft, Jeldwen, Weathershield, Peachtree, Pella, hell most of the window & door displays in every Menards store came from us. We manufactured all the adiorondac chairs for Leinenkigel's, even the giant ones you see around. We did custom bars & food service setups at Lambeau, and many other stadiums & race tracks around the country. Store displays for Winsor Canadian, Miller, Coors, Leinie's, Blue Moon... All us, and those are just a few. We exported displays to Europe, Australia, last thing we were interested in is the local market, if someone came in the door asking, we'd usually recommend one of the local sign shops we did fab work & flatbed printing for. That was all we did in the local market.
Then they hired a "dream sales team" just before I retired, two gals, reminiscent of trust fund brats, ready to take on the world. First thing they did was try to take over the local market using all the big names we did work for as clout, walked into paces with their noses in the air, and quickly got thrown out of almost every one (sounding familiar?). They actually thought banners & general signage in a small local market, competing against a dozen other shops was going to take a company like this to new financial heights. The last IBS show exhibit we did before I retired was a million dollar endeavor, it left the facility on five semi's, that's what they walked in to, the resources/ sales links they had, and they were out trying to take $100 banner sales away from small local shops. Yeah, let that sink in
All it did was turn local suppliers, along with all the manufacturing and sign companies against us that we were doing flatbed printing, CNC, welding & fab work for, who sent stuff to us because they knew we could do it, weren't out to step on their toes, or take their customers, PLUS we sent locals to them that came in our door. They made the company a pariah in the local market.
This one will learn the hard way... They always do.
gnubler
Active Member
Did they use excessive exclamation points in all their correspondence? This sh!t is getting out of control and makes people sound like they're deranged.
Just speak and write like a normal person and nobody will get hurt.
50 years ago, i was the service manager of new jersey's largest commercial video equipment distributor.Define normal...
panasonic used to offer to "help close large deals" but, any time you gave them your client info, they were
sneaky and stole the account from you.
this was a really sh**ty deal, since you had to jump through hoops to become a panasonic dealer, you weren't even allowed to change the paper signage in your windows without their approval.
gnubler
Active Member
Whaaat? How old are you..100?
As far as normal goes, these emails with e-points ending every frickin' sentence including the salutation makes me envision Crazy Eddie from the old TV ads, or any annoying car dealer ad where they're screaming with enthusiasm. These people need to tone it down to a 4, at least.
Johnny Best
Active Member
I think you would like a warm gun under your counter.
jochwat
Graphics Department
Well, you know [gnubler], you should learn to use them. Like the way I’m talking right now, I would put an exclamation point at the end of all these sentences! On this one! And on that one!
(Let's see who knows where this came from).
Boudica
I'm here for Educational Purposes
Elaine on Seinfeld.
jochwat
Graphics Department
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Boudica WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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gnubler
Active Member
I hope to not live long enough to be in the workforce for 47+ years. A few more years of this is probably all I can handle.
Johnny Best
Active Member
So year 4 you will get the vaginoplasty and then another year to get full-on dick. Did the hormone therapy give you facial hair.
i have a long standing joke with the owner of my biggest client, that i do this because i really ENJOY WHAT I DO,
IN SPITE OF HIS BEST EFFORTS
