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An answer to the “Sell Me This Pen” interview challange
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#12Pretty sure the most common answer to "When was the last time you used a pen?" is "I don't remember.". Then what?
Then you don't get to write a blog post on how awesome and smart you are.
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#13Link not working. Responds with 500 (Internal Server Error).
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#14Pretty sure the most common answer to "When was the last time you used a pen?" is "I don't remember.". Then what?
Then you make a different pitch. What counts is that you display the traits that can make you successful in sales, not that you emit a canned speech - it's not about following a script, but about improv.
Which I suck at, for the most part, and have never put much effort into getting better - and that's why I'm not in sales. But you don't need to be good at something to understand in general terms how it works.
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#16Looks like Senator Club's Wordpress wasn't expecting to get hit quite so hard. I don't suppose anyone has the text/transcript of this to hand?
And here I thought the best way to sell a pen was to offer a blank sheet of white paper, as shown.
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#17That's a terrible answer and to be honest, I don't particularly believe this actually happened. I was once asked to sell a pen to an interviewer and the first thing I asked them about was their pen use. After that, I pointed to things on the pen and told them about the benefits of it and why it was a good choice. he stopped me and said he heard enough because I established need, and then translated real features of t…
On top of all of that, it's titled "The Best .. I've Ever Seen" and it's his own anecdote. That's up there with Trump's "I have the best brain." crap. Terrible.
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#18Link not working. Responds with 500 (Internal Server Error).
Read the other comments here - there are multiple links to cached versions.
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#19Cool but... I read the entire article expecting a really good answer.
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#20That's a terrible answer and to be honest, I don't particularly believe this actually happened. I was once asked to sell a pen to an interviewer and the first thing I asked them about was their pen use. After that, I pointed to things on the pen and told them about the benefits of it and why it was a good choice. he stopped me and said he heard enough because I established need, and then translated real features of t…
I don't see the difference between your answer and his?
Both asked about recent pen use, both responded based on that?