Gosho Kosama

Account Lead

I hate when prospects ghost

Been having a rough quarter - my "super interested" prospect on who the quarter depends and was supposed to close this week just vanished. No explanation, budgets were 'approved', DM was onboard.

Found this weird simulator thing where you can pretend to talk to your ghost clients and just... vent. Sounds dumb but it helped with my stress levels 💀

Still wish there was at least an answer though - now I look stupid in front of our VP. Some people man..

🙏 Mental Wellness

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Bring your VP in. Have them cold call their leader.

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

I like your answer better than mine.

oldcloser

Arsonist

💀

And have the VP open with “When’s the funeral? He was so ready to go with approved budgets, I figure he died.”

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

“We’d like to know where to send the flowers.”

Account Lead

Hahhaha, this cracked me up!

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

I'm on board with ALL of this.

Gosho - please make this happen and report back.

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

I think it's perfect!!

It'll show your VP too, how it's like to close in the month of December. lol

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Ouch. So - assuming you have no other contacts at that company? Where you can reach out and just say you're concerned because you haven't been able to get a hold of your contact, and it's not like him.
That said, it is the holidays, and people can quietly disappear for hours or days.

Account Lead

Yes, I have a few other contacts that I interacted with and have sent them a soft note on the status and asking them if there is anything they feel we are missing. Will follow-up with a more direct ask.

The thing is - I had best 'relationship' with my champ and he is most senior amongst them.

Sunbunny31

Arsonist

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Mysteries like that are very frustrating, because you just never know what's going on. It could be totally unrelated, or not, and you have no way of knowing. Hopefully you get a response, and better still, a contract in the door.

Major Account Executive

Joy of sales….

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Ain't it mane

RandyLahey

Politicker

Account Executive

It’s one of many bad aspects of this job.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

ERP Sales

I am sorry this is never fun

Carlosg

Politicker

SDR

If sales were easy, we would not have job hahaha

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

Your Champ was probably told budget was pulled or no and they don't have the backbone to tell you. E-mail them or call and say "Hey person, Look I know we were all systems go and when I don't hear from you my assumption is that you were told no on this. Has there been a decision made on this as I am in the dark and left to make assumptions."

LegacySales

Politicker

Account Executive

Hmmm, here are some tips: 1) Never go in alone, always have two contacts for the account. That way if one ghosts, you have a back up.
2) Make sure to show leadership you did everything you could to make it simple for the end customer to purchase.
3) Chances are, this was something way outside of your control.

bigbabyboss

CEOwner

These are great tips legacy

bigbabyboss

CEOwner

Haha

DollHairs

Good Citizen

Owner

its not even halloween!