bendandsnack

Account Exec

Any good word vomit stories?

I slept poorly and the brain isn't moving on all cyliners.

During a proposal for one of my best opps the Founder/CEO of a startup said "I'm doing the math and I think it would be cheaper for us to hire up a team and do this ourselves."

I responded "a fully trained team of an Architect, an Engineer, and a Delivery manager 4 weeks certified in xxx cloud provider?" (nervous laugh) "you might be able to do it but it would be impressive."

I wanna die.

My colleague also asked me to split a territory plan with him this morning and I responded "no because I'm going to end up doing all the work." ??!?!?!?! I mean it's true but to his face...yikes.

Anyone else have any good word vomit stories to make me feel better?

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Update: prospect is begging me to send out the contract ASAP. I guess it's better to come off like an asshole a tiny bit & get to the point.

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Sunbunny31

Politicker

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Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I actually like your first answer, blunt but honest. I mean, seriously. Sure, you can do anything with enough budget and time, but do you then want to support it, maintain it, keep it relevant? Or do you want to be up and running with minimal IT and focused on what your company does, which is xyz thing, not abc thing, which is not your core competency?

OK, so maybe that level of bluntness is what I try to do with my mic on mute, get it out of my system, and finesse the response, but I hope you didn't kill your deal and instead earned points for honesty.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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I don't think that really classifies as vomit? You were direct and to the point. Stay firm.

bendandsnack

Politicker

3

Account Exec

I needed to hear that, thank you.

My SE gave me some feedback that I was a little much, but he also tends to shy away from tough conversations.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

4

🦊

Can't be weak in business BBK ❤🦊

jefe

Arsonist

3

🍁

Definitely true. Don't worry about it @bendandsnack

bendandsnack

Politicker

1

Account Exec

lol update - prospect is begging for a contact ASAP.

u were right

CuriousFox

WR Officer

2

🦊

Don't doubt the life alert fox.

Mobi85

Politicker

2

Regional Sales Manager

Oh hell that is just a removal of the filter. Have plenty of those situations daily and maybe it is just because I am becoming a cranky old person and my filter is being removed at a rapid pace.

Filth

Politicker

1

Live Filthy or Die Clean

I become more of a "Get the hell off my lawn" guy everyday. I have to fight the urge to wear high white socks with new balances and taking day trips to home depot....I am losing the fight, PLEASE SEND HELP!

Filth

Politicker

2

Live Filthy or Die Clean

It was a minute ago, but I made a similar post after asking for "Bitch" McPerson instead of Butch, there were some fun responses:

https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/i-misspoke-but-i-liked-it

Abstrakt

2

Director of Cloud Solutions

You weren’t selling and you were talking to him in a language that he understands of how to actually run the business and get to the results faster. Or if you didn’t want to take all that risk by my product… It’s an honest approach and should be done more often

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

1

Rolling 20's all day

Fuck man, I watch my SDRs word vomit everyday.

P.S. I would recommend trying to take 1 second before you reply to things.
"Before I do anything, I ask "would an idiot do that?" And if the answer is yes I do not do that thing." - Dwight Schrute

Handfullofsass

Opinionated

1

SDR

My coworker had a call where the gatekeeper was a woman and he said "well I wanted to let you know since you're his righthand man...uhh I mean woman" and when he was trying to close and schedule a meeting for the following week, she said she couldn't do next week because she would be out of office because she had to go get surgery (TMI) and he said "Yeah that sounds great... I mean not great. umm.. well when will you be available" 🥴😅

SaaSguy

Tycoon

0

Account Executive

Brevity and saying what you mean is a good thing.

TennisandSales

Politicker

0

Head Of Sales

hahahah!!! nice!
what did your colleague say back to you?

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