Corporate Sales Guy

7 Deadly Sins of the Sales person – Courtesy of Harvard Business Review

Shirin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:01:14 +0000

Great article, check it out here.

Managed Hosting Purchasing Guide

Shirin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:07:06 +0000

I am still continuing my writing but more of it happens over at ColoAdvisor these days. I’d like to pick back up on my Corporate Sales Guy rants. A recent work is the guide to purchasing managed webhosting.

-CSG

New Gig ColoAdvisor

Shirin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:25:55 +0000

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am finally doing my own thing. If anyone is looking for hosting, colocation (collocation), or cloud advice or service let me know. Check us out at ColoAdvisor.

We’re also doing a pretty cool blog where many of the same topics that I’ve spoken about here are discussed over there as well.

Happy Selling-

-CSG

Doing what you love

Shirin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:26:51 +0000

A while back I was listening to a song off the Buddha Bar Album called Daydreaming by Rollercone. The song starts off with a short spoken poem and part of it goes like this:

“…and when they do something that they love, because when you do something you love, no matter what it is, you do it well.”

It’s amazing, when you do something you love it stops feeling like work. You almost don’t get tired even if you have an extra long or hard day.

New Venture for CSG

Shirin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:45 +0000

For years I’ve been a comfortable employee of well, uh employers I guess. For a small stint in the early 2000’s I owned a share of a car rental franchise and before that the last venture I had was my lawn mowing service at age 17-18.

Long story short – I’ve joined an old colleague of mine to co-found a company called ColoAdvisor. We are basically agnostic datacenter brokers for all things hosting, colocation, messaging, managed apps and Cloud. Check us out at www.coloadvisor.com – I’m still going to keep the blog up and running and now I may have more interesting things to share.

For a brief video of what we do, check it out below and let me know if you have any needs !

Best wishes, and thanks for continuing to read my sporadic posts and rants that put here.

Non-corporate thoughts

Shirin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:58:05 +0000

Is it wrong to hate the suit and the tie? I find myself craving a hot cup of coffee, my MacBook pro, well worn jeans and a true goal for that day. At times I’ve forgotten why I do certain clerical tasks and as I begin to feel satisfied with the accomplishment of these tasks I become quickly saddened. As a salesperson, no deal has been closed, no contract signed, no rectification of the clients issues.

I recently took some major steps to getting closer to my ideal life work. Folks that know what I am doing may justifiably call me crazy but folks that end up doing what they want in life never have it easy.

Intrinsic

Shirin — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:32:41 +0000

My favorite part of the official definition from google, ” intrinsic – wholly independent of any other object, action or consequence “

This is what sales folks need these days. Your plaque will become a door stop or occupy space in a landfill for sure.

-CSG

This doesn’t sound familiar at all!

Shirin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:47:34 +0000

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-10/

The perfect sales guy attitude!

Shirin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:46:43 +0000

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-09/

Random Thoughts

Shirin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:08:47 +0000

Mr. Wizard, Get me the hell out of here.

-Neo, The Matrix