Macdaddy

Team Lead

Feeling blue

Hey all, I recently joined an anonymous online sales forum. After being berated by the "cool kids" I am now feeling blue. Any tips and tricks as to how to smile through the pain while conducting a series of follow ups before the days end?

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CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

Whats up, that last post definitely got off on the wrong foot so let me be the first to actually welcome you to the War Room.

Some context - we have had a few bad apples over the last few months post a ton of spam so some frustration was definitely taken out on that thread. Every time a bulk upload of new members are let in, we also get a flood of duplicate posts (not saying yours was in particular).

In the future, some topics I would avoid are music, sales movies, sales books, and email stuff. We have had a ton of really good threads on those, happy to provide some links if any are interesting to you.

Anything else is fair game, just use the search bar first to make sure it's not a duplicate. I would just say the posts that tend to do well here are either super random (and honestly it is hit or miss) or genuine questions or advice.

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

@bigmeech is the goat! Welcome to the WR. Not everyone is a douche, I promise!

CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

I am definitely a douche

funcoupons

WR Officer

👑

Samesies

detectivegibbles

Politicker

Sales Director

😂😂

goose

Politicker

Sales Executive

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Appreciated!

CharmingSalesGal

Politicker

Account Executive

This is theeeeee nicest thing I've read on WR today. Wow, kudos to you!

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

You're a good person. First line ring bells.

GeneralCorp

Notable Contributor

General of The War Room

@Macdaddy Welcome to the War Room my friend. I, for one, am glad you are here. <3

Feds_Watchin

Politicker

Just know that someone probably got fired berating you instead of picking up the fucking phone. Take solace in that.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Haha 😂 what a great way to cheer someone up

Incognito

WR Officer

Master of Disaster

🏆

cw95

Politicker

Sales Development Lead

I'd treat this forum (If that's what you can call it) like you treat your mates but in a none insultive way.

I've learned a lot of tips n tricks and I am sure people reading this would agree.

Just carry on as you are, you're in sales, change how you see fit.

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Well, Corp gave you love which is like a gold star on meth and steroids at once.

Incognito

WR Officer

Master of Disaster

Hi! I already love you and I hope you’ll love me back for a hot minute. 🥰 We’ve all missed at least once. Every damned one of us. If you keep coming back and keep giving us that sweet talk of sexy sales tips like you’ve been doing in these comments then we’re never gonna let you go 🖤🖤🖤

Feds_Watchin

Politicker

I love your cat

Nairobi

Politicker

Oh wow I missed an episode, seems like you took some heat on your last post, sorry about that. I’ve actually seen worse posts than that one lol but echoing what BigMeech, it’s because of previous posts that have happened, not because of you.

This is a great community! I’ve been here a few months and I’ve already got great advice/tips from other savages. So keep your head up and on to the next one!

Kinonez

Celebrated Contributor

War Room Enthusiast

Just keep your posts engaging and full of value, you'll earn your place in no time! Good to have you in the war room!

deviantzen

WR Lieutenant

Consultant

everybody upvote this poor person

goose

Politicker

Sales Executive

Well, this isn't charity but... ok.

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

Your last post was about how do you tie your shoes.. did you not learn from your previous post?

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Yikes, I'm sorry. I searched the forum and that topic had yet to be debated. Given the relevance it had in my life, coupled with the split opinions among the office made me think it would be worth discussing.

dialguy

Good Citizen

SDR

Hi @Macdaddy have you tried sharing novel sourcing methods with said cool kids in an effort to gain their approval?

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

I mean...I'd actually like to hear about creative methods because I am sick of ZoomInfo and LinkedIn.

Feds_Watchin

Politicker

I mean it depends on industry but those two can cover each other’s ass rather effectively. Some other options I guess would be seamless.ai. A real unknown one that I use that is CLUTCH is Aidentified.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

I would be happy to share the most effective sourcing techniques if they would share the following information with me; what is your ICP, what tools do you have to leverage, what is your target company size, what is your averages deal size? For good measure please add 2-3 additional pains you or your SDR's feel on a day to day circumstance.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Oh, also how does your salesforce data integrity look as a whole, duplicate accounts, and contacts? Lots of contacts with outdated or irrelevant information?

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Are you ready to move on?

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Dude our SF is so jacked up. I came from a company where we had rights to do simple tasks, aka merge duplicate accounts, and now I have to put in a request, wait for a manager to approve it (he never does) and then wait another 24 hour refresh after admin gets the approval.

I need to go lay down. 🤦‍♀️

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Oh, I'm sincerely prepared to offer advice, I help a lot of different companies in different industries and verticles. There are always creative sourcing workarounds regardless of obstacles whether they be traditional or ornate.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

-We are a HubSpot shop.
-Leverage ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Nav, Apollo.io
-We don't have SDRs, yet. I do all of the SDR work for my AEs (beyond our Inbound flows). Obviously that means I spend a fraction of the time on it among all of my other sales strategy duties.
-Data is fairly clean because we audit it regularly with different enrichment tools.
-ICP is IT teams in 100-500 person tech companies in English-speaking countries (or anyone that doesn't mind we don't translate natively)

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

@CuriousFox what level of SF access do you have? I'm sure that you will be able to find a field that won't impact other teams day to day. I suggest using a universal tag to mark a duplicate... ie. Type = NA for the duplicate account that you will not be utilizing. Then filter out by: Type does not = NA. At least you won't see those duplicates over and over again and ensure you are only conducting outreach to 1 of the duplicates.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

@poweredbycaffeineworddd I actually need to finish up work right now but I'll get back to you with as much insight as I have to offer shortly.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Please accept this internet hug as my highest form of gratitude 🦊

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Antime!

Feds_Watchin

Politicker

Sorry I may or may not sell the SW that applies that governance.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Why do you hate me 🥺

Feds_Watchin

Politicker

I adore you. Blame the dystopic niche of governance and compliance.

SignThis_SalesGirl

Good Citizen

Director of Business Development

Don't smile through it. Reschedule your follow ups. Call it a day and go get a drink!

Kanyebut4sales

WR Lieutenant

Account Executive

Have you ever eaten a whole package of toll house cookie dough while watching secret life of walter mitty? Highly recommend

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

hahahahaha

LordOfWar

Tycoon

Blow it up

People are mad at end of the quarter and taking it out on the new guy?

Use this as a way to grow some thicker skin, but also know that people are just dicks online.

Macdaddy

Arsonist

Team Lead

Thanks!

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Voila: https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/the-war-room-faq-if-you-are-new-please-read

looper1010

Celebrated Contributor

Solutions Specialist

Don't feel bad. There are some toxic Douches here. Just ignore them and I'd like to give you a warm Welcome!

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