Will you be ordering the new iPhoneS or C ?

Wow that must be something.

True story when I worked for Sun Microsystems the Sun AT&T team got the contract to set up the server farms to validate the new iPhone with Apple and AT&T. AT&T had the exclusive on the IPhone for a few years. Every Sun sales rep assigned to that account made over a million dollars every year for 3 years.

 

My wife let the Apple store manager hear it one day when she was trying to purchase a iPad 3 generation.

The apple store is less than a mile away in an affluent area.

Evidently every morning at 10:00 am my wife would go to the Apple store and wait in line sometimes hours and they would give a few out and say we are out if stock. If your interested come back tomorrow.

After 3 days of this my wife's patience is wearing thin. She is about 5'5 " maybe 120 lbs and works out every day. A vivacious Blond and ASU grad who grew up in North Shore Chicago.

On one day this elderly Asian couple on line in front if her has a note saying iPad 16gb Wifi Verizon. The sales guy says all I have is 2 left but 16Gb AT&T . My wife says I'll take one that is exactly what I need. The elderly Asian not being able to understand English makes a phone call and puts his son on speaker phone and in broken English a voice says my father will take both.

The sales manager looks at my wife and says sorry you will have to come back tomorrow and try again. My wife went balistic on the manager who is about 6' 5". She said I live in this area and I'm a constant patron of your store. I must have purchased 4 phones, 2 iPads, a few mac Pro laptops for my family. It is obvious these people don't live here ( she really didn't know that) and they are just buying this and reselling. They will never come back. Are you sure you want to alienate me a local home owner and shopper?

The manager said I can't do anything about it. She said I want to speak to your manager. He finally relented and said I'll hold one for you when it comes in what's your phone number and I'll call you tomorrow.

Amazing but true story. She got the iPad.

 

Perhaps overwhelmed

 

I read Reid Hoffman's book The Startup of You albeit awhile ago. He is a Stanford Grad. He was the COO of PayPal and co founder of LinkedIn. He us also the first round investor of Facebook with Peter Thiel.

The book talks about adopting to the future, invest in yourself, and transform your career. It's not what you know, it's who you know.

If you just read the first chapter you get the importance of networking to close deals or secure jobs and career advancement.

Getting your invite out to your address book is a networking process.

 

They have an import wizard for outlook, yahoo, gmail Etc and you can deselect personal contacts.

 

Screen shot given from a fan on Twitter.

 

Daniel your pro bono work for the poor is to be commended. Hopefully you can carry on with that wonderful legacy.

It is to bad you had a bad experience with LinkedIn. A few clicks of the mouse and you could have avoided that.

LinkedIn is the real deal. My profile goes back to 2006, the company was founded in 2002.

 

Daniel that is your prerogative. Most likely your not getting Spam but invites from friends and acquaintances or LIONS to join there network.

 

Downloading the update on my 4S , taking 49 minutes it says.