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Sarunnio Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

qualify

0I'm not sure if I'm correct or not about the meaning of this word "qualify".02br
00I gathered information from a company and let my friend build a certain product for me. Howerver, they've come out with a question as follows.02br
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01i00Have you qualified with the customer what they are looking for?02i02br
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00Does it mean "to make certain that product fit customer's requirement"?02br
00Can anyone please explain what it really means in this context? 02br
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02br 02br 00I haven't seen the word used as you have offered it here, but it seems to fit. " is certainly a common usage. 0-

— Philip

  • 02br 02br 00I haven't seen the word used as you have offered it here, but it seems to fit.
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0 "To make certain" is a good definition, comparable to 01i00American Heritage Dictionary02i00's "to modify, limit or restrict, as by giving exceptions".02br
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00I haven't seen the word used as you have offered it here, but it seems to fit. "Let me qualify my previous remarks by adding that....." is certainly a common usage. 0-
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0If "they" (01u00they've02u00 come out with a question) are the company, then who is the customer?02br
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00Usually "Qualified" has to do with inspection. There's a relatively new (new to me anyway) internationally accepted system called ISO 9000, or something like that which requires manufacturers to go through a lengthy "qualifying" procedure, afte
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0To qualify a prospect is to ask such questions that you have a clear understanding of the suitability of the prospect, before disclosing your position.02br
00To qualify the needs of a customer is to identify, usually by asking questions, what the customer is looking for.02br
00Very often, in insurance, prospects are pre-qualified before the salesman moves in. 0-
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0Wow! Optilang! What a revelation! How did I manage to live so long without picking up on this? 01b01i00Salesmanship!02i02b00 Of course!02br
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00Every week I get five or six credit card offers in the mail, saying that I've been pre-qualified to receive their product. They make it sound like an enviable position. I attain to the hi
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0Please allow me to add my two cents. The purpose of qualifying customers is very simple: don't waste your time on (potential) customers that won't buy from you now! If your product will cost them 1 million and they have only 100K budget or they are planning to buy 1 year later, why waste your bullets at this moment? (I am not a sales, hope the sales people don't find my description offensive
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0Hi Pter,02br
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00I believe I understand your point. I'm still confused as to who the players actually are in this scenario. I was hoping to hear back from Sarunnio on that subject. There's definitely a third party and possibly a fourth. At some point the customer ought to have a say in the matter.02br
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0I guess "they" refers to the friend who is going to build the product. (There is a disagreement in plurality here.) The friend is concerned if the company is really going to buy the product according to the information that the "I" collected. ("I" means Sarunnio?) This is just my guess. We really need to wait for Sarunnio to confirm. 0-
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0Hi Pter,02br
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00Sorry to make it confusing for you.02br
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00Yes, you're right.02br
00I wrongly put the pronoun 'they' instead of 'he'. So, the question should be as follows.02br
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01font00I 05000 gathered information from a company and let my friend build a certain product for me.
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0Please note the difference between "(pre-)qualifiying the customer" and "qualifying 01i00with02i00 the customer."02br
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00In the first, you ensure they are able to actually afford the product, as described above.02br
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00In the second, as Opti says, you ensure you understand exactly what their needs are.02br
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0Thanks for your insight, GG. I had given up on this one. The expression sounded a little strange but certainly possible. - A.0-
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