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Re: RC-50 video on summer NAMM

BOTH of you guys better quit wasting the company's money. I'm an HP 
stockholder! :)
--
Paul Richards

---- Dumeril Seven <dumeril7@yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> > From: "Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>
> > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Subject: Re: RC-50 video on summer NAMM
> > 
> > Heh heh...no doubt about it. The guy is a born marketer. In fact, I 
>find 
> > that a lot of musicians have the skills and persona necessary to be in 
> > product marketing, or sales, especially the good looking ones (you 
>have to 
> > be good looking to be in marketing). There is a charisma and 
>quirkiness 
> > about some musicians that makes them adept at this.  First of all, a 
>good 
> > music marketing person needs to have a "sliver tongue" and be able to 
> > believe in his own bullshit to such an extent that the customer can't 
> > possibly not buy into the value proposition of their product. Second, 
>they 
> > need to be able to play their instrument.  Rico Looper, or whatever 
> > ridiculous title he has self-appointed himself, seems to have both of 
>these 
> > skillsets.  That competency set is worth about $70+K a year for a 
>fortune 
> > 500 company in the US.....that's a lot of boxes of Snack Romin and 
>Macaroni 
> > and Cheese, man. :)  He could be talking to customers and designing 
>products 
> > rather than being Boss' errand boy of promotion.
> > 
> > K-
> 
> Hey, I represent that remark!  As a product marketing guy, I agree with
> everything you said.  Except that I'm not particularly good looking; 
>well, my
> wife thinks I am, but she's biased.  BTW, I think I work for your 
>company.  HP,
> right?  I do "solution marketing", which is just a another variant on PM 
>for
> the   OpenView identity management products.
> 
> D7
> 
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