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by myohmy 1708 days ago
This is why I look for sales training in my hires. Its clear that the Apple rep was asking probing questions trying to wrestle him into a decision funnel. I've sold laptops to a bunch of grandmas who've given me questions like that, and never to a "CPU designer".

...come to think of it, maybe one of the grandmas was a CPU designer all a long!!

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She's probably fuming right now that you dared ask her a concrete question about what she wanted.
What could possibly be more concrete than "bring me the computer what comes in the smallest box"?