AnotherAE244

Account Executive

Do you close deals because of your team or in spite of your team?

More of a general question, but I would like to understand how you feel about your organization.

Do you close deals

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because of your product, marketing, and legal teams? in spite of your product, marketing, and legal teams?

*Voting in this poll no longer yields commission.

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antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Both. I close because I can and my team and product make it easier to do that. It's a plus.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

This is the ideal scenario

BigOstrichEnergy

Valued Contributor

Full Cycle AE

Agreed.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

I can't win a deal if I demo a bad product with a bad SE

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Those are three very different groups. Having a great product is pretty much a factor for me in joining any company. Marketing...could be better, but seems to be improving. However, I think of Marketing as top of funnel - so if things aren't coming in and there's no brand/product/solution awareness, then that's on Marketing. And legal is a partner to get us to closing. If they're drawing lines in the sand they won't wiggle on or figure out, or if they take 2-3X as long as they should to produce redlines or responses, then they aren't being a partner.

So because this poll is here, is there an issue you're facing at your own company with one or all three of these divisions?

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

I'm on the both bandwagon.

Filth

Politicker

Live Filthy or Die Clean

A. Love spite as a motivator
B. It depends on the situation which of the above is true.

C. I make my CRO/manny get involved when big enough so it gets done right and if I need tech help I slam open a CTO or lead dev's office/email box.

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

Both.

Sometimes it’s me who does the work. Sometimes I lean more on the product/teamz

CadenceCombat

Tycoon

Account Executive

Because of product, in spite of marketing.

BigOstrichEnergy

Valued Contributor

Full Cycle AE

Always sales vs. marketing 😂

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

I didn't know which one to pick bb

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Both 😅

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

Team selling forever baby

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

In spite. The company I am with, is NOT customer focus driven. They have internal processes that make little to no sense to customers, it's difficult for AEs to explain. The legal team is hyper non responsive, and when they do they will pick faults in documents that can easily be let go off. Finance team failed some audit last quarter, so now everything is strict with discounts. Only 0 ending numbers hahah to be given as discounts (10% / 20%: No 15%). Stupid everything,

pirate

Big Shot

🦜☠️ Account Executive

Well I just find people who help me and then teams who didn't watch me like how did she manage it

Austin

Celebrated Contributor

O&G O.G. - Sales Mgr. - NCSA

Fuck marketing… amirite?!? Lol.

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Do you close deals because of your team or in spite of your team?

Do you close deals

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