To begin with, how many of you have an idea
of The Sales Room? Or maybe how many of you have been into the sales room?
Especially of a startup? This book by RT Manu Ramesh surely speaks about the
Sales room and everything in detail through the example of his time at a
startup firm. The cover does its best in describing what the book is all about
and so does the blurb…
On the back cover- Rajesh Iyer, a young, ambitious salesperson, returns to “The Sales
Room” of Oregon Software technologies after an aborted attempt at getting into
a business school in the US, only to notice the metamorphosis of the software
start-up which he had earlier been an integral part of. What used to be a
rat-infested hole in the midst of a vegetable market is now a swanky, state of
art facility owned by an upcoming Bollywood star. The enthusiastic and compact
team firing on all cylinders is replaces by a sclerotic and bureaucratic setup.
Sales review meetings, once rife with passionate discussions, are now replete
with profanities. The ill tempered angel investor’s scream can be heard all the
way from his villa in New York. Rajesh, now shunted into an innocuous role
finds every effort made to alleviate the condition of the demoralized sales
team, met with resistance. As revenues dwindle and tempers rise, Rajesh
realized he is running out of time and options. He either toes the CEO, Venky’s
line and becomes party to a sham or quits citing a host of plausible reasons.
This hilarious narrative takes the reader from plush corporate boardrooms of
Bangalore to the seedy hotels of Delhi as Oregon meanders in search of illusory
customer wins. Rajesh meets several interesting characters ranging from the
busty Polish graphics designer to the loquacious pimp masquerading as a taxi
driver.
Told through the eyes of Rajesh Iyer, the
book is a testimony of what an ideal Sales Room is like. Likeminded people
sharing topics ranging from anything to everything. It’s totally a visual of
what a typical sales room is or rather what it should be.
Written in a quirky yet fun narrative, the
author does his best in describing the scenes and giving it an interesting
feel. The way the author, throughout the book, has interacted with the readers
makes the reader’s feel that even they are a part of the book.
Typical guys discussing about stuff not
related to the work is also well thought of, which gives the readers a feeling
of reality. The usages of very easy English along with colloquially used Hindi
words also make the book reader friendly. I would call this book a very
interesting comedy which gives every reader an idea about life at the sales
room of a software startup.
To say about the facts I didn’t like about
the book is that it had too many characters which, at a point of time, can
confuse the readers to an extent. Apart from that, the fact that the writer
could’ve written it in a more strong way, with a more important storyline,
stayed with me till the end of the book.
Yes, there were spelling and grammar
mistakes too but the other facts topped over it. The end of the book was quite
nice. All in all, enjoying the book till the very last line and waiting to read
more of the writer, I would like to rate the book 3.75 out of 5.
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