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Destroyer of sales- What team is responsible ?
Who hurts sales the most
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Legal/finance kills sales. Shitty lead gen kills my soul.
Man oh man 💯
i'm convinced legal/finance is there to make me hate my life.
Amen!
Our product team has a habit of missing almost every single deliverable from a product perspective. Had multiple customers churn because of it.
Exactly my answer. Everyone is accountable to deadlines and targets except for the product team.
Operations/shipping/service
I'd say finance is #1
In my experience, implementation.
Painful, if that's the case🥺
Definitely product. I don’t think they have EVER come through on a roadmap deliverable.
If they don't, yeah agree🙏
Why did anyone vote for anything other than Marketing... tell Teslas marketing team to take a walk... oh wait. They don't have one and are doing just great.
Whoops 💯
Slow-ass product teams kill everything.
Our product team has a habit of missing almost every single deliverable from a product perspective. Had multiple customers churn because of it.
Legal/finance kills sales. Shitty lead gen kills my soul.
Marketing & finance are number 1 for me.
Implementation... "We have no capacity to onboard your client in the next 6 months and I don't care how much revenue it is worth to the company or if it basically pays for my salary"
Lack of communication across all departments.
Micromanaging🥲
Operations/Strategy - Ends up with the sales team getting consultant-splained by someone who has read challenger selling and blitzscaling once.
Sales destruction starts from the top. Sales has to be company focus at leadership level and if it is, other departments will line up and focus on how each is helping drive sales. If engineering, marketing, or god forbid HR and finance are steering the ship, you’re fucked.
HR
Honestly love legal. What better way to start moving a deal forward or closing than to get legal involved early. If the prospect is willing to get their legal team involved then they are probably bought in and you just assume the close to the finish line.
Total ownership.
Legal can cockblock you. Ops WILL fuck you. Your sales manager is going to send you down the wrong path.
But your success and failure is yours alone.
Legal can cockblock you. Ops WILL fuck you. Your sales manager is going to send you down the wrong path.
But your success and failure is yours alone.
+1 for legal. I’m out on contract revisions. Sorry.
Legal/finance kills sales. Shitty lead gen kills my soul.
How in depth do you go on your research? I find that I have better calls when I am less prepared generally, tend to overthink less. I usually just scan the LinkedIn profile first if anything
Yes. I closed the largest deal of my career off of a cold call to an F500 CTO. Picked up, I had a contextual hook ready to go, we scheduled a meeting, the rest his history.
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