Keys to Failure

Everyone likes to talk about the keys to success.

But what about the keys to failure?

I’m dealing with my own today. I am sitting here with two people in the the Adobe Connect conference and we’re working on the new partner guide. As we are writing, revising, second guessing and questioning the way we phrase every other word I am left with a mixture of remarkable boredom and nausea. Kind of like after the thanksgiving dinner with the inlaws you don’t like. Except I’m hungry too.

My sincerest hope is that I don’t pass out from whitepaper-induced coma before I finish writing this sales-contraceptive.

This is what we’re going to give our partners to help them sell our products? I think we should just slap our competitors logos on it and ship it to their partners and see if we can kill some competition.

Maybe I am just dead wrong and the car salesman route to selling bits is better.

I wonder how much money it would take to get Eric Ligman over here if he doesn’t own all of Microsoft SMB already 🙂

I am this || close to shooting an infomercial. Just me, camera, fake Rolex and 3 bottles of fake Viagra.

Hey there. This is our web site. Yeah, no words. Why? Because you’re probably illiterate. Congratulations on finding the f’n Play button. Now let me tell you what you need to do to give us money so you never have to see ANY of these (pointing to the fake Rolex and Viagra) again. (Buy it now action sequence) If they are still watching segway to some really disgusting pr0n that someone keeps on #@%@% clicking on or it wouldn’t keep on showing up every damn day.

Well.. I think I just regained my passion to promoting what it is I do for a living.