{"id":10958,"date":"2025-06-21T16:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/but-what-do-they-say-at-the-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T20:56:27","slug":"but-what-do-they-say-at-the-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/but-what-do-they-say-at-the-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"But what do they say at the meeting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is the way to understand business-to-business selling.<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019ve left with the purchase order, what does the buyer tell the boss? What does the boss tell the investors or the press?<\/p>\n<p>This helps decode why giant companies like Google or Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2020\/11\/19\/are-you-a-seal\">buy<\/a> a company or don\u2019t. It explains why McKinsey can charge 20 times as much for consulting as a former McKinsey consultant can. It explains why TV ads continue to be purchased, and why it\u2019s so difficult for a new entity with a better product to get traction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat will I tell my boss?\u201d is the key question.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t have a good answer, the person you\u2019re calling on will default to, \u201cit\u2019s just like we used to have, but cheaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"date\">June 21, 2025<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t\t\/\/ Delaying FB pixel script to load after 4 seconds to not affect on initial page load.\n\t\tsetTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t!function ( f, b, e, v, n, t, s ) {\n\t\t\t\tif ( f.fbq ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tn = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply( n, arguments ) : n.queue.push( arguments )\n\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\tif ( !f._fbq ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tf._fbq = n;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tn.push = n;\n\t\t\t\tn.loaded = !0;\n\t\t\t\tn.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\tn.queue = [];\n\t\t\t\tt = b.createElement( e );\n\t\t\t\tt.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\tt.src = v;\n\t\t\t\ts = b.getElementsByTagName( e )[0];\n\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore( t, s )\n\t\t\t}( window, document, 'script',\n\t\t\t\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js' );\n\t\t\tfbq( 'init', '221651354884486' );\n\t\t\tfbq( 'track', 'PageView' );\n\t\t}, 4000 );\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the way to understand business-to-business selling. 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