Rupert_Pupkin

Account Executive

Contributor

Fire Starter

Good Citizen

End of Quarter Anxiety Drivers

Hit me with your best end of quarter, waiting on a signature that will make your number, anxiety driver. I'll start:

Sales Manager: Hey, any word yet?

In what FUCKING world, does this deal close or have movement and you don't know about it? Yeah, it closed and I neglected to tell you. Fuck outta here.

Go...

😂 Sales Humor

☁️ Software Tech

27 comments

Sort by:

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

Had a falling out with my director because I recently answered this question with, "fuck if I know".

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Lol sounds like a Friday type of conversation

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

OMG this one got me! Like, what do you think is going to change in the last hour you asked me this? 🤦‍♀️

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

Sales Manager: Any updates? No? You sure? Double check your email and let me know...
5 Mins later:
Sales Manager: Any updates?
(Yes this does happen to me)

deathbysales

Politicker

Vice President, Sales

Last few days of end of quarter my manager will always ask us if we have anything else to bring in..... drives me fucking nuts. It's like he's programed to ask that question. No I am hiding shit and will pull it out of my ass at the 11th hour.

Rupert_Pupkin

Contributor

Account Executive

Even worse is when they get you to try and pull something in that has no chance. “Hey I know this isn’t scheduled for another 3 months, but think they could move their timeline up?”

deathbysales

Politicker

Vice President, Sales

That drive me crazy. I usually agree to work on it and in reality won’t even try. I am not going to rob Peter to pay Paul.

Rupert_Pupkin

Contributor

Account Executive

Exactly. Yeah no worries I’ll just threaten the relationship I spent the last few months building by asking them to sign in 3 days when we haven’t even started legal yet and they’ve given us timeline confirmation 4 times. Pinging our champion now….

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

man oh man, I feel ya. I'm in sales not magic.

BmajoR

Arsonist

Account Executive

Coming in first thing and being bombarded by revenue questions, let me open my laptop first ffs!

youKNOW

Politicker

Sales Manager

Question on this, since I'm on a yearly goal. What happens if you don't hit a quarterly number but they sign the first day of the next Q? I'm legitimately curious about this. At some point, we're all in sales so a certain amount of mid-level anxiety ALWAYS exists.

Rupert_Pupkin

Contributor

Account Executive

Just goes towards your next Q goal. The leadership stress comes from rising calls to the board, etc… and whether your deal has an impact on that. Plus at a smaller/private company, dollars can be more valuable in certain quarters.

youKNOW

Politicker

Sales Manager

Got it. I'm at a smaller/ private company, dollars at ANY point are more valuable no matter the quarter. Be that as it may, the quarterly number is only used as a gauge of yearly pace.

1nbatopshotfan

Politicker

Sales

The 8am text message asking for an update is the worst. It only happens at the end of reporting quarters, but still. “Any news?” …yeah, the news is it’s 8am.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

Please tell me that’s what you reply. Also my condolences, that sucks

1nbatopshotfan

Politicker

Sales

Just don’t reply. Before I start is my time lol

Rupert_Pupkin

Contributor

Account Executive

Hahahah “yeah there was a house fire down on Berkshire, a car ran into an ice cream shop, don’t worry no one was hurt, and it seems like the humidity is finally gonna break. I’ll keep you posted as updates continue to happen. That’s your morning news”

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

Having the end of the week three 1-1 meetings on updates when those meetings are only 2 hours apart...if you let me actually work and not chat balls to you then maybe it might come in.

Rupert_Pupkin

Contributor

Account Executive

Monday:

"We have a call with them on Wednesday to get updated, they said they'll have news then and nothing before"
"Ok, let's schedule a huddle for tomorrow morning to see what's changed"

.....FUCK

alecabral

Arsonist

Director - Digital Sales Transformation

Sales manager: how’s your next quarter pipeline? Anything you can bring over today?

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

I was super agreeable in my last role and got along with marketing and finance and engineering and I was super underpaid and got nothing done so now I’m a blunt prick and don’t bother wasting my time with marketing and only engage with other functions when I need to close a sale and I’m killing it. Does sales ops live me? No.

Clashingsoulsspell

Politicker

ISR

Last few days of end of quarter my manager will always ask us if we have anything else to bring in..... drives me fucking nuts.

NotInterested

Catalyst

Business Development Manager

“What do you have cookin for us?” Please, Rob... it’s not lookin good so stop asking 😂

StringerBell

Politicker

Account Executive

I can’t stand that shit. You will fucking know when it closes

MR.StretchISR

Politicker

ISR

OMG this one got me! Like, what do you think is going to change in the last hour you asked me this?

Mr.Floaty

Politicker

BDR

Cyberjarre

Politicker

BDR

People need to feel like they have agency so I treat it similar to a sale. Before disagreeing I ask My discovery questions to understand their “whys” then provide positive recognition for parts they say that make sense.

Bravado is a community of trusted sales professionals endorsed by their customers.

Products

The War Room Jobs Salary Guide Tech Sales U

Company

About Us How It Works Blog Bug Bounty

Contact

Press Careers

If you are hired as a contract sales rep by a Bravado customer, we may ask you to prove access to the employee email account provided to you by that customer. This data will be shared with customers to track your sales productivity; customers can use this data to confirm you meet the minimum activity requirements to pay out your ramp stipend and commission.

Rupert_Pupkin

End of Quarter Anxiety Drivers

27 comments

Related posts

End of Month Creativity (May 2021)

What major actions would you take on month ends and quarter ends to hit your quota and also increasing the logos of yours from your pipeline?

How did your quarter end?