Sales math

When you ask a housewife, an accountant and a salesman what 2 + 2 is, what do they give you?

The housewife simply say "Four."  The accountant says "It's either 3 or 4, let me run it through my spreadsheet again."

The salesman dims the lights, closes the door, draws the blinds to your office and quietly asks, "What keeps you up at night?"  After you answer; invariably the salesman will finally respond with another probing question, "What do you need it to be?"  A conference call, a consulting engagement and three on site visits from a systems engineer later and, IF you are lucky, you'll finally receive the answer you've been waiting for......    FOUR!



Moral of the story.   When it comes to business decisions....   listen to your spouses folks!  The answers are more accurate and they are FREE (in a sense- lol)!


Fore (as in look out),
Dan