Bleeding good stuff
Outsider knows a thing or two about [high] blood pressure and he remembers Winston Churchill’s vow, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat” but your correspondent has never actually seen blood spilled in the cause of a fund analytics product. Until last week.
Outsider was minding his own business whilst vaguely listening to one of his colleagues – a sales johnny – extolling the considerable virtues and capacities of FE Analytics – the best thing since sliced bread and the answer to a maiden’s prayer, by the way.
The client, a rather well-known dealer group doyen, seemed to be taking the spiel rather well until, suddenly, he had to rush off to the bathroom where he started haemorrhaging all over the floor.
It seemed to Outsider that the excitement of the product pitch had clearly been too much because some stitches on a face wound had given way and blood gushed out as quickly as praise for FE Analytics.
Once the ambulance had been called and the client in question was seated comfortably waiting for his saviours, Outsider spotted his sales colleague continuing his sales pitch from the lobby. Blood only makes a contract more binding, after all.
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