Feb 27, 2012
My muse has escaped me for the last few days but what days they've been. Picked up one new customers and two new prospects. That's pretty salty. Again, contacts from the partner community have paved the way. If you're not meeting with your partners, your force multipliers, at least a few times a week, you're missing the boat. Why make it hard on yourself. Spend the time to get to know the folks that you work with outside of your company. You'll be surprised.
How many people are sick of hearing about the "cloud". I know I am. However, I'm starting to understand the "why" of the cloud. Now that I've walked through with a customer moving their crapplications (pure commodity apps) to the cloud and hitting the = button on the calculator with them. I GET IT!!!!! If your customers are having a hard time getting it. Educate yourself on it, get with your partners, and show them the light. They can save a pile of money.
Speaking of educating yourself. How much time to you really spend on the web or in a book learning. I try to at least squeeze in one hour per night. A colleague of mine does something very interesting around this. He tries to spend 4 hours of uninterrupted time just coming up and brain panning new ideas. Incredible. He shared some of his ideas recently and they're awesome. Where he finds 4 hours without a golf course, fishing boat or hunting blind is beyond me. I'll have to try that one for myself.
That's if for tonight.
Stay persistent.
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