| I think you have heard your answer...
This is not to say that people in this company are not active/committed/etc,
it is just that this particular notes file is of little or no interest to
them. Given the vast quantity :^) of notes written by mid to senior managers
in this notes file, it is apparent that they do not view it as a conduit of
information from them to us. And given the vast quantity :^) of notes among
the worker bees in this notes file, it is apparent that they do not view it
as a high priority forum.
I think this is based on 2 things:
1) Most sales people, and most mid to senior managers, don't use NOTES at all.
No interest, no time, lack of training, the reasons are legion, but the
bottom line is they don't do it.
2) For those of us who do use NOTES, non-technical notes files like this one
do not tend to attract our attention, and so the "critical mass" of noters
never materialized. (This is not to say that non-technical notes files
cannot succeed: DIGITAL, MARKETING, and SOAPBOX are all good examples of
very popular non-technical notes files).
In the case of this notes file the 2 factors combined to make it difficult
for this notes file to be particularly active: its primary audience doesn't
do NOTES, and the subject matter didn't interest enough other people to make
it active enough to attract the first group.
And in looking over the entries for the last 18 months (and the directory
listing didn't even fill 1 page, and boy doesn't that say something), the
majority of the notes were either queries that weren't answered or duplicate
notes cross-posted in a zillion notes files.
-- Ken Moreau
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| Hi. I was the moderator of this conference at one time but due to job
changes, I no longer am. It is my understanding that with all the
changes that have been made within the Sales organization, this
conference has not been considered as part of the internal sales
communication pipeline (from management and to management).
Remember, this was Bob Hughes's conference... and we have seen a lot of
Sales managers between then and now. I'm not even sure who the
moderator would be.
The conference should probably be write protected or just wiped out.
Any thoughts?
\\ken
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