AEs/BDRs/SEs: Early birds who also burn the midnight oil?

I remember having my own freelance digital marketing gig. It was my own business, so I wasn't just marketing, I was SELLING my services.


Because my customer base went from the U.S. to Australia and in between, I found myself working as early as 4am and as late as 2am, anytime between Monday through Sunday. Fortunately, this wasn't a 24/7 type thing.


Of course I had breaks in between, with some times having a few days to weeks of not interacting with customers, but it got me use to doing "whatever it takes" to get a customer in a meeting and making a close.


Fast forward today, and I am a BDR who is scheduling meetings with prospects in China and India, and I am thankful my A.E. is super flexible and actually more excited for the fact I'm pulling meetings across the globe. It also helps that he personally loves waking up at 4am, and is willing to take calls until 8pm. Him and I are both based out of different time zones, so it makes it even more interesting, like figuring out a math problem as I am trying to close on a time. lol.


What are your thoughts about taking meetings before 9am, your time zone? How about after 5pm? I'm curious.

AEs/SEs/BDRs: What is the earliest you're willing to have a Prospect Meeting/Demo?

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someoneinsales
Tycoon
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Director of Sales
Money doesn’t sleep. As long as the conversation is well qualified I am happy to wake up or stay up for it. If I do wake up, and the call isn’t qualified at all or the person doesn’t even know what we do, then I’m probably not taking another early call until it’s proven the meeting with at least be more qualified.
APalmoze
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Business Development
You're tellin' the troot

(said in Joe Pesci voice)
DrunkenArt
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Sales Representative
If it's a good size deal and can make me some decent coin, I'll get up as early as I need to, to make sure I can get some quality face to face time. 
SaaSam
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Account Executive
I second this, I think any one of us would take a meeting at anytime if it gave us a million dollar commission right? For some they would regardless, but I dare say anyone would for the right price.
APalmoze
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Business Development
Makes sense.
Ozz
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Account Executive
Had to do a lot of calls with European based customers around 5am. Most deals didn't convert due to their wonky laws. 
APalmoze
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Business Development
ah darn it! That makes sense in terms of Intercontinental business law. I bet waking up early to get a close makes the waking up feel better, but waking up to a decline or lost must make the waking up kinda groggy.
Ozz
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Account Executive
Yeah, it was a waste of time. Started DQing a ton of them. 
SlinginSoftware
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Account Executive
I try to keep all demos between 9:30 and 3:30 if I can. All other time is for admin stuff... Also, I sell to IT and those guys and girls are NEVER agreeing to early meetings.

If it is truly the ONLY time that will work, 7am is my limit. I cover west coat, but live in the midwest, so have had to do this a handful of times.
APalmoze
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Business Development
I bet the people in IT are like "no no no! you want an early or after hours meeting!?!?! This must be a potential bad actor/hactor and this might be a security breach!" lol
SaasyRaRa
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Account Executive
If it's an intro-call/first demo and I'm not even sure if they'll show up I won't book before 8 or 8:30 (and I'm on the west coast, lol). But if it's anything more significant than that I'll take a 7am call if that's what the prospect asks for.
GDO
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BDM
I made a mistake. Wanted to vote 7am
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