Ballmer: Microsoft needs better sales pitch

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Microsoft needs better sales pitch

Microsoft needs better sales pitch 07/08/2004 03:30 PM
osOpinion Jul 8 2004 7:55PM GMT

Are You Paying Attention To This Sales
Pitch?

Are You Paying Attention To This Sales
Pitch? 09/17/2004 08:13 PM
A good presenter knows how to adjust their presentation when the audience's body language shows they're not so interested in what's being pitched. However, with more and more people doing presentations over the internet, it's tougher to read that "body language." Webex thinks they have a solution. They're adding a feature to alert a presenter if a viewer isn't paying attention. So, if the person viewing the presentation has switched to another app (email? solitaire?) the presenter will know they better spice up the presentation quickly. This could be a pretty useful feature, though some might not think so if they're caught snoozing. A smart sales presenter, of course, wouldn't reveal that he or she knows the prospect's attention had shifted, but not everyone is that smart. Update: A reporter at InfoWorld notes one of the problems with this approach. As Webex demonstrated the system for her, she swit ched to a word processor to take notes -- immediately alerting Webex that she wasn't paying attention.

Cisco deal gives new meaning to great
sales pitch

Cisco deal gives new meaning to great
sales pitch 08/23/2004 04:47 AM
Seattle Times Aug 23 2004 9:39AM GMT

Insane sales pitch for the "Rockwell
Electric retro-incabulator"

Insane sales pitch for the "Rockwell
Electric retro-incabulator" 08/06/2004 08:32 PM
Matt Maier sez: I thought the Boing Boing readers might get a kick out of this. It's two solid minutes of some of the most impenetrable, acrononym-laden sales-speak ever put to tape. The product in question is a Rockwell Electric retro-incabulator....whatever the hell that is. (I have no doubt that one of your readers will know what it is, or what it does...but I certainly don't.) Check it out. Link

Ballmer Pledges Microsoft Role in
Industry Innovation at Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference 2004

Ballmer Pledges Microsoft Role in
Industry Innovation at Microsoft
Worldwide Partner Conference 2004 07/13/2004 03:32 PM
Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer kicked off the third and final day of the Microsoft® Worldwide Partner Conference 2004, the company's premier event for partners, with a message of increased company investments to fuel innovation in the industry. The conference is attended by more than 5,500 business leaders, marketing executives, sales professionals and solution architects from around the world.

Ballmer to Advertisers: You're Key to
Microsoft

Ballmer to Advertisers: You're Key to
Microsoft 03/17/2005 03:55 AM

Ballmer: Microsoft Must Not Become
'Bureaucracy'

Ballmer: Microsoft Must Not Become
'Bureaucracy' 07/07/2004 07:59 AM
Forbes Jul 7 2004 12:48PM GMT

Mini-Microsoft: Better off without
Ballmer?

Mini-Microsoft: Better off without
Ballmer? 04/18/2005 10:30 AM
Better off without Ballmer? .. bitter, bitter, bitter .. Mini-Microsoft .. suggested

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Microsoft to pitch security as
'competitive advantage'

Microsoft to pitch security as
'competitive advantage' 07/08/2004 07:17 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its worldwide partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises

Microsoft to pitch security as
competitive advantage

Microsoft to pitch security as
competitive advantage 07/12/2004 12:52 AM

Ballmer Says Microsoft Needs to Avoid
Pitfalls

Ballmer Says Microsoft Needs to Avoid
Pitfalls 07/07/2004 02:23 PM
Red Nova Jul 7 2004 6:41PM GMT

Ballmer tightens Microsoft belt

Ballmer tightens Microsoft belt 07/07/2004 09:40 AM
SOFTLY SPOKEN, shy and retiring Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent an email to staff yesterday to complain that the company is not as wealthy as everyone thinks. According to Mr Ballmer, stories have been getting out that he is sitting on a fathomless cash ocean of billions of dollars and does nothing more than swim in the mountains of loot. He wanted to tell staff that it is not true because Microsoft needed a lot of cash.

Microsoft must stay flexible, says
Ballmer

Microsoft must stay flexible, says
Ballmer 07/07/2004 01:21 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 7 2004 5:35AM GMT

ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Bad Boy
Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft

ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: Bad Boy
Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft 11/05/2003 11:37 PM
In this revealing biography -- based on in-depth study and interviews with Microsoft insiders -- Fredric Alan Maxwell provides the complete, controversial narrative of one of the technology industry's most influential, talked-about figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer, the awkward Detroit Country Day School valedictorian who rose to become Microsoft's president, and in the past two years, its CEO. Together with Bill Gates, Ballmer leads the company he and Gates took from less than 30 employees to some 50,000, and annual revenues from $12 million to more than $20 billion and rising. A balanced portrait, this book reveals the good boy Ballmer -- the dedicated son who once took three months off to care for his ailing parents, and the bad boy Ballmer -- the ruthless businessman who at the same time devised and led a scorched earth policy against other software developers, a policy that earned him the nickname "The Em-balmer."

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Tells Advertisers
They're Important

Microsoft CEO Ballmer Tells Advertisers
They're Important 03/17/2005 03:49 AM
Search Engine Lowdown Mar 17 2005 8:15AM GMT

Ballmer: Microsoft has invested $100m.
in Israel

Ballmer: Microsoft has invested $100m.
in Israel 05/04/2004 03:24 PM
Jerusalem Post May 4 2004 7:44PM GMT

Ballmer: Division Heads To Report To
Microsoft CEO

Ballmer: Division Heads To Report To
Microsoft CEO 06/04/2004 09:11 AM
Forbes Jun 4 2004 1:44PM GMT

Microsoft Matrix: Bill Gates as
Morpheus? Steve Ballmer as Neo?

Microsoft Matrix: Bill Gates as
Morpheus? Steve Ballmer as Neo? 11/17/2003 11:12 PM
Silicon.com reports on Bill Gates' keynote speech at this years Comdex. The highlight of the speech, however, appears to be a Matrix Spoof with Bil...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Israel:
Operating systems aren't a religion

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Israel:
Operating systems aren't a religion 05/04/2004 05:11 AM
Haaretz May 4 2004 9:36AM GMT

Microsoft CEO Ballmer: New tech-stocks
bubble in Israel not unthinkable

Microsoft CEO Ballmer: New tech-stocks
bubble in Israel not unthinkable 05/07/2004 09:52 PM
Haaretz May 8 2004 1:33AM GMT

Ballmer quizzed by Microsoft partners on
company plans, tactics

Ballmer quizzed by Microsoft partners on
company plans, tactics 07/13/2004 05:08 PM
Partners queried Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer during the company's Worldwide Partner Conference on issues from the company's plans to deliver services to its commitment to Microsoft Business Solutions to competition from Linux.

ActiveWin.com: Interview with Steve
Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Microsoft Corporation

ActiveWin.com: Interview with Steve
Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO):
Microsoft Corporation 06/17/2004 10:14 AM
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Steve Ballmer Microsoft Office System
Launch Video: Productivity in the
Digital Decade

Steve Ballmer Microsoft Office System
Launch Video: Productivity in the
Digital Decade 12/23/2003 01:35 AM
Recorded in Orlando, Florida on October 21, 2003, see Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer's keynote presentation for the Microsoft Office System launch.

Cube Management Sales Consultants:
Increase Sales Online With Sales
Consulting and Sales Acceleration

Cube Management Sales Consultants:
Increase Sales Online With Sales
Consulting and Sales Acceleration 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
A long-term, ongoing Search Engine Optimization Campaign is a critical step in your efforts to bulk up your company’s online lead generation program. [PRWEB Dec 15, 2004]

Sales Outsourcing Provider, Sales
Partnerships Agrees to Provide Sales
Outsourcing Services to Tech Leader
Level 3 Communications

Sales Outsourcing Provider, Sales
Partnerships Agrees to Provide Sales
Outsourcing Services to Tech Leader
Level 3 Communications 03/28/2005 03:27 AM
Salaes Outsourcing Provider, Sales Partnerships, Inc. agrees to provide sales outsourcing services to Colorado-based Level 3 Communications. [PRWEB Mar 28, 2005]

Sales and profits up at Microsoft

Sales and profits up at Microsoft 07/22/2004 04:41 PM
Microsoft, the world's biggest software company sees its quarterly profits reach $2.7bn.

Microsoft Q2 sales top $10 billion

Microsoft Q2 sales top $10 billion 01/23/2004 03:48 AM
OnBusiness Jan 23 2004 7:51AM GMT

Microsoft Hardware Sales

Microsoft Hardware Sales 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
Channel Times Sep 16 2004 3:42PM GMT

Microsoft technology to allow catalog
sales

Microsoft technology to allow catalog
sales 05/02/2004 11:57 PM
Variety May 3 2004 4:12AM GMT

Microsoft: Southeast Asia sales looking
up

Microsoft: Southeast Asia sales looking
up 05/27/2004 07:59 PM
ZDNet May 27 2004 10:48PM GMT

Microsoft boosts sales using patents

Microsoft boosts sales using patents 04/12/2005 01:59 PM
Computer Weekly Apr 12 2005 4:52PM GMT

Microsoft sales exceed forecast

Microsoft sales exceed forecast 04/23/2004 04:04 AM
Seattle Times Apr 23 2004 8:22AM GMT

The Pitch

The Pitch 09/19/2004 08:03 AM
I got a msg from the Bush campaign (I'm a member of GOP TeamLeader) touting an HBO movie, 9 Innings from Ground Zero. The msg links to a clip about Bush throwing out the first pitch. In it, W lets us know the pressure on him not to "bounce" it. I can see why the Republicans are circulating it. It's a good piece of tape, in a patriotic-cum-Riefenstahl sense. And, on the other hand, it's maybe the most absurd reduction of a serious issue I have ever seen. You want to see American political cynicism at its worst? This is...

Lackluster Xbox sales disappoint
Microsoft

Lackluster Xbox sales disappoint
Microsoft 12/23/2003 12:54 PM
Korea Herald Dec 23 2003 12:09PM ET

Microsoft sets vertical sales focus

Microsoft sets vertical sales focus 04/14/2005 10:08 AM
Microsoft is busy overhauling its U.S. sales force to cater to customers who demand not only product knowledge but also industry expertise from salespeople.

Microsoft Expects SE Asia Sales to Grow

Microsoft Expects SE Asia Sales to Grow 05/27/2004 12:23 PM
Boston Globe May 27 2004 3:59PM GMT

Microsoft sees sales hurdles ahead

Microsoft sees sales hurdles ahead 01/28/2004 06:39 PM
The software giant sounds a cautionary note with financial analysts, saying revenue growth in the next fiscal year will likely not match that of recent years.

First Microsoft Media Handhelds Set for
August Sales

First Microsoft Media Handhelds Set for
August Sales 07/09/2004 08:01 PM
Mac News World Jul 10 2004 0:30AM GMT

Microsoft plans sales force
reorganization

Microsoft plans sales force
reorganization 04/12/2005 11:34 PM
Major revamp to focus on adding staffers with knowledge about particular industry segments.
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Drew Curtis' FARK.com

Drew Curtis' FARK.com 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

Mad Drew: new Toothpaste for Dinner book

Mad Drew: new Toothpaste for Dinner book 12/12/2003 10:28 AM
Drew, the creator of the Toothpaste for Dinner comics and assorted humoribilia has a new book out, called "Mad Drew: Boyond Coffeedome." It recounts the life of a post-dot-crash temp with a near-autistic inability to understand his surroundings and a deadpan delivery that reminds me of Molesworth, by way of Office Space.

also i remembered how it is sometimes good to work when you can use things like the copy machine and stapler for free! i did not do a lot of copying when i was unemployed but now that i have a job i know that i can write things on a piece of paper and make a hundred copies of them and take them home and put them on telephone poles!! the power is amazing, if i want to tell all the poeple walking down the street to shut up then i can write SHUT UP in large letters on paper. using an office marker for free by the way!!! and then copy it and stable it to telephone poles USING AN OFFICE STAPLER, it is a dream come true!

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Collector's Collections Gallery: Drew
Kantorik

Collector's Collections Gallery: Drew
Kantorik 07/15/2004 01:28 AM
Today's Collector's Collections update features items from the collection of Drew Kantorik from Smock, Pennsylvania. As you can se, Drew loves to collect Boba Fett and Jango Fett collectibles. If you'd like to see your collection featured here at Rebelscum, send me your name, location, and pictures of your collection, and I'll add your gallery for all the world to see.

"Drew Cope's Drum Machine, animated
Flash music"

"Drew Cope's Drum Machine, animated
Flash music" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale 02/14/2004 11:45 PM
Boston Globe Feb 15 2004 3:45AM GMT

King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure (Los
Angeles Times)

King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure (Los
Angeles Times) 09/14/2004 05:43 AM
Los Angeles Times - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday unexpectedly moved to shut down the trauma unit at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, immediately drawing the ire of physicians, politicians and community activists.

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale (Reuters)

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale (Reuters) 02/14/2004 04:02 PM
Reuters - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)

FARK.com: (1069846) Drew responds to
Wired article (in comments). This link
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Wired article (in comments). This link
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FARK.com: (1069846) Drew responds to Wired article (in comments). This link brought to you by Burger King for $26.41 .. response .. responds

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EchoStar vs. Turner

EchoStar vs. Turner 04/15/2004 01:11 PM
Time Warner's Turner properties are in a dispute with EchoStar over fees. Here we go again.

A Page-Turner at the Times

A Page-Turner at the Times 07/13/2004 08:43 AM
Is everything old new again?

Ted Turner on media consolidation

Ted Turner on media consolidation 07/22/2004 09:56 PM
The current issue of the Washington Monthly has a great article by Ted Turner on the evils of media consolidation.

"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner

"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner 07/23/2004 01:22 PM
talking about the collapse of ownership restrictions .. media consolidation and government protectionisim .. Ted Turner speaks out against consolidation .. Ted Turner: My Beef With Big Media

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Ted Turner: Break Up Big Media

Ted Turner: Break Up Big Media 07/26/2004 12:30 PM

Ted Turner: My Beef With Big Media. As a business proposition, consolidation makes sense. The moguls behind the mergers are acting in their corporate interests and playing by the rules. We just shouldn't have those rules. They make sense for a corporation. But for a society, it's like over-fishing the oceans. When the independent businesses are gone, where will the new ideas come from? We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

(Cross-posted to We the Media.)

Turner -- TW/AOL 'Disaster' Could Have
Been Avoided (Reuters)

Turner -- TW/AOL 'Disaster' Could Have
Been Avoided (Reuters) 04/11/2004 10:26 PM
Reuters - If only Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had listened to major shareholder Ted Turner, in the mid-1990s and bought CBS or NBC, Time Warner's disastrous merger with America Online probably never would have happened.

Telstra's i-mode Deal with Turner

Telstra's i-mode Deal with Turner 08/17/2004 05:58 AM
Digital Lifestyles Aug 17 2004 10:20AM GMT

Bin Laden artwork on Turner list

Bin Laden artwork on Turner list 05/18/2004 05:57 AM
Artwork inspired by Osama Bin Laden is one of the pieces nominated for this year's Turner Prize.

Jeff Turner as Cocoon committer

Jeff Turner as Cocoon committer 01/14/2003 02:28 PM

Jeff Turner was proposed by Stefano as a Cocoon committer! This is an important recognition of the hard work and commitment Jeff has shown in all the projects he's been working on, Anteater, Forrest and Cocoon. Good job, Jeff!

Turner Hired As Raiders' Head Coach (AP)

Turner Hired As Raiders' Head Coach (AP) 01/26/2004 01:47 PM
AP - Norv Turner was hired as the Oakland Raiders' head coach Monday, taking over a team that went from the Super Bowl to 4-12 in just a year.

Transvestite potter wins Turner Prize

Transvestite potter wins Turner Prize 12/08/2003 05:45 AM

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AOL Time Warner: Turner staying on board

AOL Time Warner: Turner staying on board 03/21/2003 01:20 AM

Telstra signs Turner i-mode deal

Telstra signs Turner i-mode deal 08/17/2004 01:59 AM
ZDNet Australia Aug 17 2004 4:43AM GMT

BBC News: Transvestite potter wins
Turner

BBC News: Transvestite potter wins
Turner 12/09/2003 10:55 AM
Lovely little girl wins the Turner prize .. bbc

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Already a legend, Turner graces a timely
cover

Already a legend, Turner graces a timely
cover 02/07/2003 03:45 PM
Google, the computer search engine, has already decided not to buy the newest mega-processor --- a decision Red Herring calls "a turning point in the high-tech ...

Daniel Clowes on NPR

Daniel Clowes on NPR 06/24/2005 06:19 PM
David Pescovitz: Comix artist Daniel Clowes of Eightball and Ghost World fame was on National Public Radio's Fresh Air yesterday talking about his new comic strip novel, Ice Haven. It's loosely based on the Leopold and Loeb murders of 1924. Clowes also rapped about his latest collaboration with director Terry Zwigoff, the filmic adaptation of the comic Art School Confidential. The interview is archived at the NPR site. Li nk

UPDATE: If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, Clowes is signing books tonight at the Booksmith on Haight Street at 7pm. Link

Daniel Drezner

Daniel Drezner 11/02/2003 03:13 AM
concludes

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Dot Net Pointers from Daniel

Dot Net Pointers from Daniel 03/13/2003 06:14 PM
Source: Archipelago

Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent 12/20/2003 07:37 AM
uberblogger .. Instapundit

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"article written by Ted Turner on the
subject of media consolidation"

"article written by Ted Turner on the
subject of media consolidation" 07/26/2004 04:08 AM

Poor Song Choice Dooms Turner on 'Idol'
(AP)

Poor Song Choice Dooms Turner on 'Idol'
(AP) 04/13/2005 10:30 PM
AP - Nadia Turner picked the wrong song on Tuesday's "American Idol," and on Wednesday, she paid the price. Turner was voted off the Fox show after singing Crystal Gayle's "When I Dream," a choice that the judges lambasted.

Brainstorms 2004 dinner interview notes
- Ted Turner

Brainstorms 2004 dinner interview notes
- Ted Turner 07/15/2004 12:18 PM

Ted Turner dinner interview. It was a great interview and quite funny. Worth a read.

This was a dinner talk and it was quite noisy so my notes are a bit sketchy, but here are some tidbits. My notes may be a bit inaccurate...

Q: What are you doing now that you don't have a job.

A: I worked for 50 years. I'm a philanthropist and I don't have as money as I used to so I march. I march for the rights of women.

The nuclear arms in the US and Russia are still on hair-trigger alert and I'm working to disarm these weapons.

Q: Who would you want to become the president of the US?

A: I'm for whoever speaks to our survival not our demise.

Q: So Who?

A: Who do you think?

The invasion of Iraq was the biggest debacle in the history of the world... except maybe the AOL Time-Warner merger.

They can't even get Haiti right, how are they going to get Iraq right?

It cost $200B. $100B to bomb it and $100B to rebuild it. All just to find some guy hiding in a foxhole...

Wars may have worked in the past, but now we have pro-football. Before there wasn't anything to be excited about so War was exciting. War isn't fun anymore.

9/11 wouldn't have happened if I had been president. We were having a cold war with Russia when I went to Russia to produce the Good Will Games. A few years later, the Berlin Wall came down.

My net worth went from 10-11B to 1B and a half.

The AOL Time-Warner merger was bullshit.

Q: You were quoted as saying that signing was as good as having sex for the first time.

A: I was just being a team player. It wasn't really. It was the stupidest move I've ever seen. Almost as stupid as the war on Iraq.

It was good for me. I ended up with 10% of the stock in AOL/TW. I was friendly with two other people who owned 10% each so it was OK for me.

But I probably should have done it. Gerald Levine was like Rasputin. He was my enemy. But he said he was my best friend. I said to him, "Gerald, I've never been to your home." But I was a team player. I always pulled for the team.

Q: Can you start a new empire from now?

A: No. I'm too old/tired.

I'm doing Bison.

Q: Why Bison?

A: Why not? They are the original American cattle. The meat has 1/2 as much fat as beef. I am going into the restaurant business and philanthropy.

I thought I could make a difference. I don't have enough money so I make speeches and make appearances.

Philanthropy is important. It's not about giving to the local church or orphanage. You have to shift to more important things. I've also wanted to be a fire chief.

Rupert Murdoch is is a bad journalist. Sloppy journalist. He runs Britain. I asked Tony Blair why he was allowed to have so much influence and Tony Blair said, "I wouldn't have my job without Rupert." He wants to rule the world. He has Britain, almost has Australia and he would like the US. He has no interest in helping anyone, in charity. He won't even give you an interview. He's not interesting in whether what he is doing is right or wrong.

The $1M / yr I was getting as Vice Chairman was just hush money.

Q: What would you have said?

A: A lot. Not of your business.

I was in New Mexico and Gerald Levine called me and said "I'm replacing you." "The hell with your contract." "I can sue you." "All you'll get is your salary. No discussion."

I helped get Lord of the Rings made. I said yes. A $300M decision. You have to have guts, but you have to be right. The president's got guts, but he's wrong.

You also need vision. My vision comes from thinking. I don't want TV.

We split the money with Jim Baker 50/50. We used to open the envelops together as they came in because we didn't trust each other.

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