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How do we sell our bosses on our ideas ?
In this case, I want him to buy me a subscription to Hoover's.
Cost is, about, $2600.00 for one year if I remember properly.
For the moment, we're going to try a LinkedIN premium account (definitely not my 1st choice in this case) on a month to month basis.
Really, Hoover's lays the golden eggs here.
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Tell him it's a Dyson.
Cost is about right... 
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What is Hoover's? Link please
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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What is Hoover's?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Google[^]
Top link.
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I didn't Google it because I thought 'vacuums' and that didn't seem like what he was talking about
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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C-P-User-3 wrote: How do we sell our bosses on our ideas ?
Quite simply allow him/her to believe that it was they who thought of the idea then tell them that they are a genius.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Alcohol?
Blackmail?
Get creative! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You want to get, you have to give.
If you can explain why getting the subscription will make or save the company money...
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Basically for a sale to work you have to convince him the subscription is more valuable than the cost. We as people always judge on a value system like that. Up-play the subscription and downplay the $2.6k!
Jeremy Falcon
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That's a fair chunk to downplay!
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Thank you for sharing that insight
Simple truths are easily recognized when you see them, but it was nowhere to be found when I was looking for an answer to a similar question.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Anytime, as you already pointed out, that concept can be used in many areas. Mind food!
Jeremy Falcon
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Tell then how much better data will save them. Time spent updating and manipulating crap data costs money after all and Hoovers is about as good as I've ever gotten.
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C-P-User-3 wrote: How do we sell our bosses
I have no problems with selling my bosses. The only downside of my method is they have to hire a new one every time.
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Does a Mexican train killer have locomotives?
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Nah, just an to urge Tequila.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'll need to choo on that one for a while...
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If you're not careful, there could be a domino effect.
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This daily post is really starting to go off the rails.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Ha Ha Ha Ha - That's worth remembering. 
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Not bad. One of the better ones, IMHO. +24
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