As I was in the a bookstore buying my brother's and sister's Christmas presents, I stumbled upon The Little Red Book of Sales Answers. I've heard many people talk about this book and how much it has helped and motivated them, so I bought it.
About 20 pages in, I stopped. I couldn't read it anymore; it was boring. Everything was redundant; I heard it all before. For the past year, I have been trying to strengthen my network. I would go to social events and ask questions like "How do I grow my network?", "How do you meet influential people?", etc. AKA stupid questions. And so I would get the response, "You should read [name of a trendy book]. It really helped me learn all about it." So I would go to the store and buy this trendy book. And then I would read it and I would feel all happy. And then I would go to a networking event, get scared, and ask the same dumb questions. Rinse, recycle, repeat.
Out-loud and to my empty room I exclaim,
"Why the hell am I reading these books? I know how to sell. I've been selling my entire life. Before college, I fundraised well over $4k for adventures that only benefited my personal growth. In college, there isn't a close friend that couldn't tell you exactly what @ is, does and what role I have in the organization. Fcuk. I can sell whatever I want to."
Now I just needed something to sell. I needed a company. I didn't have a company.... well, back to reading the TechCrunch posts about all the companies that were created in the last two years that are being shoveled millions of dollars.
SugarCRM closes a $14.5 million series D financing.
CRM ... that sounds familiar. Oh wait, that's what I just spent the entire last semester researching for possible implementation into @s management system.
SugarCRM ranks #3 Open Source Company Set to Dominate 2008 by TechIQ.
For my report, I explained how Saleforce or Netsuite could alleviate many of the problems members have with @NG, except that either company would cost @ millions more dollars than it has, not actually allow full customization, AND would strap @ to the company's roller coaster and not let @ off.
My business plan for winter break: Use SugarCRM's platform to create an @ customized management tool.
Then I noticed the this: Google releases videos on how to use the many Google APIs.
My new business plan: Incorporate gmail, google calendar, google reader, and maybe even nomadlife into a modified SugarCRM package. Then customize this package further for use by @Madison and possible integration into @NG. Then I would have a package I could sell on SugarCRM's domain.
Do I think no one else has thought of this? No. Do I think mine will be the best? Probably not. But I'm still doing it: one, there really is nothing else to do right now. and two, this is my way of creating something useful and more importantly getting the practice doing it.
For the next week I will be hopping between libraries and coffee shops in downtown Madison, writing code on a check-out laptop and hopefully changing the world.
About 20 pages in, I stopped. I couldn't read it anymore; it was boring. Everything was redundant; I heard it all before. For the past year, I have been trying to strengthen my network. I would go to social events and ask questions like "How do I grow my network?", "How do you meet influential people?", etc. AKA stupid questions. And so I would get the response, "You should read [name of a trendy book]. It really helped me learn all about it." So I would go to the store and buy this trendy book. And then I would read it and I would feel all happy. And then I would go to a networking event, get scared, and ask the same dumb questions. Rinse, recycle, repeat.
Out-loud and to my empty room I exclaim,
"Why the hell am I reading these books? I know how to sell. I've been selling my entire life. Before college, I fundraised well over $4k for adventures that only benefited my personal growth. In college, there isn't a close friend that couldn't tell you exactly what @ is, does and what role I have in the organization. Fcuk. I can sell whatever I want to."
Now I just needed something to sell. I needed a company. I didn't have a company.... well, back to reading the TechCrunch posts about all the companies that were created in the last two years that are being shoveled millions of dollars.
SugarCRM closes a $14.5 million series D financing.
CRM ... that sounds familiar. Oh wait, that's what I just spent the entire last semester researching for possible implementation into @s management system.
SugarCRM ranks #3 Open Source Company Set to Dominate 2008 by TechIQ.
For my report, I explained how Saleforce or Netsuite could alleviate many of the problems members have with @NG, except that either company would cost @ millions more dollars than it has, not actually allow full customization, AND would strap @ to the company's roller coaster and not let @ off.
My business plan for winter break: Use SugarCRM's platform to create an @ customized management tool.
Then I noticed the this: Google releases videos on how to use the many Google APIs.
My new business plan: Incorporate gmail, google calendar, google reader, and maybe even nomadlife into a modified SugarCRM package. Then customize this package further for use by @Madison and possible integration into @NG. Then I would have a package I could sell on SugarCRM's domain.
Do I think no one else has thought of this? No. Do I think mine will be the best? Probably not. But I'm still doing it: one, there really is nothing else to do right now. and two, this is my way of creating something useful and more importantly getting the practice doing it.
For the next week I will be hopping between libraries and coffee shops in downtown Madison, writing code on a check-out laptop and hopefully changing the world.
posted by Bruhaha at 8:53 AM
4 Comments:
that's what I'm talking about!
so I have no idea what you're talking about, but you have me excited, which I think is a good first step.
So what have you accomplished thus far?
you should stop "exclaiming" to yourself.
but it is a great idea
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