warm Coke and a cold banana
Okay, we have discussed what makes a good sales rep, now let’s rake “vendor shows” over the coals. I just returned to the lab from a vendor show sponsored by www.lifescienceexhibits.com and what a show it was! This was a small exhibit of B-list vendors hawking products you never use or maybe never even heard of. With a festive Halloween theme (meaning Tootsie Pops were handed out) it looked more like “Night of The Living Dead” as we zombies shuffled our feet waiting for another mini-tray of freal food to be offered. Somehow I always missed the wave of and ended up walking back to the lab sipping a room temperature coke and eating a banana. No, I wasn’t rude to anyone and politely said “Thanks for the banana” to the rep at the door as I came back to the lab. Oh, I almost forgot the door prizes! If you could torture yourself by talking to 10 vendors and geting your tradeshow passport stamped by each of them, you could win either a miniscrewdriver kit (retail value $1), a fake Swiss army knife (retail value $1) and last but not least a manicure kit (retail value $1) which I assume was the army knife repackaged. I missed a golden opporti=unity to pick up some lab Christmas gifts.
SAB Ego-meter: red lined, major publications hounding G*******
Music: Dave Alvin “Out in California”
