I wish SaaS companies would give their sales reps a two-hour "How to talk to your prospect when you've determined they're an engineer" talk.
-
-
Incidentally: mild bait-and-switch is culturally acceptable among sales reps and makes engineers volcanically angry.
-
"I wanted to talk to you about
$NAME_OF_YOUR_APP's use of our API, which isn't optimal." Oh yes that got me to call him. Was a sales call. - 2 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
.
@patio11 I would add: let the devs have a "sandbox" account for a bit. Less daunting, more experimenting, deeper integration (less churn!) -
.
@patio11 once V1 of an integration gets shipped, a good engineer can be wary to try new things that could affect productivity/customer data
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.