Internal Microsoft Vista Video

Corporations do lots of random things to motivate their sales guys. Lots of weird things, lots of cheesy things.

This is surely just a silly, known-to-be-ridiculous video they put together as one of their sillier/lighter things for sales training, or a sales conference keynote.

How about some of you guys share some of your insight on how you plan to (or do) motivate your sales and marketing guys? Or are salespeople a thing your companies will never have?

I personally haven't given it much thought, but seeing some of the 'net reaction' to this video, I see a number of people misunderstanding this. Perhaps because they've never worked in management at a large corp (and maybe never want to)?

When I see this, it just reminds me of the sorts of problems corporations have when they get larger. It's not a minor problem when you consider the idea of having thousands of software salespeople who don't necessarily have the tech knowledge (or time) to study up on new features/tricks to get their clients to upgrade/buy. Tricks like this at least force them to take a deep breath and think about how they might position things better when new offerings are available.

There's almost no doubt that a clever entrepreneur could make a lucrative business if they're able to improve upon the existing sales training/motivation models. There's a lot of money on the line in these corporations to improve these things (as one would expect).

"See what's on employees' laptops"

It is the first time that I have seen invasion of privacy as a feature ;-)

I watched two girls one cup without flinching, but I couldn't stand to watch 10 seconds of this.

Ugh, Is this some lame attempt at a viral marketing campaign? They just need to stop trying, even their cool products come across as lame because of their marketing department.

(Note: When I say "cool" the only thing that comes to mind is that photo stiching software presented at the TED talk a couple weeks back which I immediately thought less of when I went to the website to downloaded and was accosted by the MS marking machine.)

Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU

Directed, no doubt, by Steve Ballmer.

If this had been made by a teenager somewhere and put on youtube as sarcasm it would be funny.

"Leaked". Right.....those Microsoft people are so authentic. I think this just convinced me to buy Vista..............................................................................................

NOT.

Hmmm - just saw this on top of techmeme: http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9920713-60.html

All the shops are shut :( I hope the "BUY VISTA" feeling I have right now holds until the morning!!

Let me get this straight: Microsoft ran this as a commercial? It's a joke, right?

'Sudden increase in MS Vista salesperson suicide rate' Story at 11.