What is the craziest, unethical, non-pc tactic you have used to close a deal? Oh, and did it work?
bluebirdsonly
Closing $$$
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Nice try, but no self snitchin' allowed in these parts.
Reference game tho
;)
I don't do unethical
I once was supposed to take over a family business that owned a large amount of high end hotels. The other person who evenutally beat me out for the job was the owners son, who barely passed 4th grade. We competed in an acedemic decathalon, where the final event and final question was over business ethics which I lost.
Not making that mistake again, all ethics all the time from here on out.
LoL. We've all been there...
I’d watch a documentary on this.
I kidnapped a prospects kid and friend. Unfortunately he had a very specific set of skills. He didn’t sign the DocuSign after murdering all of my colleagues and taking his kid back. It was a tough one to move to closed lost.
Did your manager ask you to leave it in upside - just in case things change? Or was he also killed off…
Nope, nothing unethical or shady. Keeps me employed and employable, and no crazy angry phone calls down the road.
can't really think of one, usually they backfire so I stay away from them.
I ran a high school partnership program where we wanted high schools to promote our program to their teens. (For every teen referred, we donated 25% back to the club)
When I took over, we were contacting individual clubs at schools which a) took fucking forever b) had very limited exposure. I thought it would be a good idea to try and partner with the state's PTA. I called, the president of the state PTA told me to reach out to individual PTAs because the state wouldn't do that type of partnership.
I turned my email subject to "[NAME] @ [state] PTA told me to contact you" - open rates went over 90%, conversions over 25%.
When I took over, we were contacting individual clubs at schools which a) took fucking forever b) had very limited exposure. I thought it would be a good idea to try and partner with the state's PTA. I called, the president of the state PTA told me to reach out to individual PTAs because the state wouldn't do that type of partnership.
I turned my email subject to "[NAME] @ [state] PTA told me to contact you" - open rates went over 90%, conversions over 25%.
That's not unethical, they did tell you to contact them at the individual level... ;)
Walking the line... ;) I had one person lose their shit. "I called Carrie Mays and she did NOT tell you to contact me *incomprehensible whining*"
Whatever, you can't win 'em all. Whiny babies like that wouldn't have signed the contract anyway.
Nothing unethical, but a couple of times I tried scaring the prospects that their trial will be deleted today and if they want to retain it, book a time blah blah. Many a times it worked
Ive shared this story before so OG savages I apologize but I had someone on my team creating fake businesses in SFDC and then closing them with a promotion we were running, then cancelling the contracts once they were paid out the commission.
It didn't last long but was a hell of a raquet while it lasted.
It didn't last long but was a hell of a raquet while it lasted.
Damn. The balls of that dude 😆
Twas a she but the statement stands true lol
I burned the cloud down so all our SFDC data was lost and we had to start from scratch again
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