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Annoying NI sales calls after visiting ni.com


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QUOTE (martin@aerodynamics @ Jun 5 2008, 02:24 PM)

are you sure that you did't get those LabVIEW training mails because of your CLAD test result ;)

For what it's worth, I got two of them (recommending that I take some courses "based on my results") even though I didn't actually take the exam - I only clicked the link and I don't think I even got to the first question.

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QUOTE (MikaelH @ Jun 5 2008, 03:33 PM)


Meet Spoolie, I coded him up and sent him to LTR, back in 2002 as a joke.

 

 

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Download File:post-17-1212706939.avi

I wrote it as a VI, but it was somehow saved without the block diagram in 6.1. So, I just uploaded an AVI movie of the VI running.

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In Sweden they sometimes call to after one have been looking at some webinar or checked the preliminary price for some equipment. I try to be proactive to look at new thing before I really need them. Another thing is that since I am work for research institute we need approximate prices for grant application that may take 6-12 month before we get the decision. I feel it like this is the curse of the Information age. I think they should treat the web the same as their paper catalog.

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QUOTE (Jim Kring @ Jun 21 2008, 04:50 PM)

But, marketing doesn't have to be evil -- e.g., permission-based marketing where high-quality products/information are provided to customers while respecting their rights to choose how and when they receive messages.

Right: it's all about perceived value - NI thinks that their call to you provides you with a opportunity that you'll value.

Personally, I don't mind cold-calls, as long as the person behind them has done their research, which means a higher potential of their service offerings to be valuable to me.

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I just had a NI salesman call me. I asked if there was a way to put a note such that I wouldn't receive the calls anymore; he was able to add "a note into my file" so that I wouldn't receive such calls anymore (this time it was from creating a couple of "what-if" carts via the website).

Tim

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