Brilliant feature for inter-city mailing.Plus, you don’t have to pay for tracking!! Use cases:– Sending urgent paperwork from your office to a colleague in another office– Anything time-sensitive ⏱️ from your house to a friend’s. A warm cooked meal from your kitchen🥡, some freshly picked flowers from your garden 🌷, a bottle of Advil for your hungover buddy too sick …
Why Stubhub May Go Bankrupt Over The Next 12 Months
I think that companies like StubHub, Tickpick, and Vividseats have a high chance of going bankrupt over the next year. Their business model will implode if too many customers ask for returns. What do you do when 90% of your customers want refunds at the same time? Just reverse all of the transactions and give them the cash back, right? …
Samvit Roy asking Jim Whitehurst about IBM Culture During Slack AMA
Congrats to my colleague Samvit (Sam) Roy, MBA, CSPO, BE for being first to ask our new President a question during his Slack AMA session!! Jim answered honestly and transparently. Great content. He also used some humor to lighten the mood, a much-needed pause from the pandemic. Here were my favorite jokes: “If you put a Red Hat together with …
Guide to How Sales Commission Plans Work (And How Much You can Expect To Make)
This post will explain how sales plans (aka sales compensation plans, or sales commission plans) work by breaking down some key terminology, and sharing some of my personal experiences to help contextualize that knowledge to help you as you embark in your sales career. How IBM Approaches Sales PlansIBM has one of the longest running tech sales organizations in the …
Arvind Krishna’s first day as IBM CEO, on Slack
Us IBMers are HYPED to see our new CEO hopping on Slack on his first day on the job to open the bridge to communications. “CEO Office Hours”? – first time I’ve heard that before. Let alone probably the first time I’ve ever seen a slack post with 1000 likes 🏆 First impressions matter! #leadership
IBM Summit Program Experience – 11 – IBM ECF Video 2019
Giving back to your community is a great feeling with many aspects to feel proud about 🤗👉 Everyone has their own favorite part — what’s yours? 🎬Amazing to have a production team to help out on this project, as most of my previous have been solo acts.👏Thank you to all the volunteers, coordinators, and all those involved in the IBM …
IBM Summit Program Experience – 10 – Snack Video
Friends, what impact do you think free snacks have on employee engagement? 🤔IBMers, how do you feel about the free snacks?#Comedy#News#Puns#EmployeeEngagement IBM To me, small perks like these make a difference! And to see one of the largest technology companies in the world offer a perk that is most often found at the smallest technology companies in the world… to me …
IBM Summit Program Experience – 9 – Landing On A Team
I have officially ‘landed’ on IBM‘s Data Science team.Here’s a picture expressing the way I feel about it: 🚀🌕Data Science isn’t rocket science – in simple terms its helping clients discover insights from their data to improve business decision-making. Lead by experts Lee Cratchley and Robb Corrigan … it’s gonna be a great year of tremendous learning and exploring new heights. “I feel like a …
IBM Summit Program Experience – 8 – Demo2Win
Sales training? Everyone’s got a method.Software demo training? Rarely taught, but critical for tech workers 💻!Last week I attended Demo2Win, a two-day workshop that teaches professionals how to effectively demo software. Learning: Imagine you are showing your manager a report, a customer your software, or even a friend a new app that you love… here’s a proven methodology you can …
IBM Summit Program Experience – 6 – Final Presentations (Video) + Graduation
Our final project for IBM Global Sales School was a written proposal + 30 minute presentation to a panel of judges roleplaying a client. Applying our learnings from the previous six months, and working together in a hotel room til midnight for two nights, Team Red was able to deliver and score 1️⃣ First Place in our class Here’s a …