Credit when due. CEO polish can be most helpful.

When your company is "starty" enough to call your CEO in to the demo. When you've got a sense that your pure-blood geek prospect might be a little bit starstruck. When they get along and drag the pitch 10 minutes past the scheduled hour with personal anecdotes.


...then the boss asks for their LinkedIn profile and reaches out to connect precisely 24 hours later, striking the perfect tone:


A delight to meet you this week. Thanks to your pointed observations about the requirements, we had a most productive meeting. Look forward to continuing our dialog to help you deliver business objectives affordably.

Love to connect and exchange views.

Very best regards,


Much left to do and the deal is maybe 65% to close.


Still, a little finesse can help. Good to feel supported sometimes.


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Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Love that you have a note-perfect exec. Thatโ€™s a nice card to play.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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๐ŸŒŸTrying not to display envy๐ŸŒŸ
Pachacuti
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Playing the CEO card is a double edged sword. Can go great or horribly. Glad it went well for you. I keep mine in a closet and feed him happy meals.
RandyLahey
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Account Executive
Massive confidence booster eh? Glad it went well for you
HVACexpert
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sales engineer
Dependable leadership can make a huge difference.
oldcloser
Arsonist
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fact, and not entirely common
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
example above with Pachacuti.
ZVRK
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Enterprise Account Executive
Like it or not, sales will be most probably CEO-led in startups, so at least yours seems to have a handle on it๐Ÿ˜Š
Maximas
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Senior Sales Executive
Nice move, hope to get the deal done soon.
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
BOOM! love it. ive worked at companies where the CEO is a hot shot and seeing ppl get pumped to meet them is kinda funny. but they dont normally have that solid follow up.

pumped!
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