LinkedInfluencer nonsense on a Sunday

So here I am, Sunday evening enjoying myself on the couch watching myself some black mirror, scrolling through LinkedIn. I come across this absolute nonsense and just need to share it with the group

Link - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6900506440067293184/

What's everyones thoughts on this?

This guy should crawl back into the marketing cage he came from imho. Anyone that has <10 years professional work experience should realise they know so little.

I'm fired up! Fuck marketing xo

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CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

This topic has been coming up for at least 5 years, SDRs ain’t dead yet. My vote is we keep SDRs and kill marketing

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Nobody ever picks them to fuck via fuck, marry, kill. ☠

Notmyrealname

Politicker

The irony of someone in marketing accusing anyone of sending spam 😂😂😂

Honestly I think most of these posts are just designed to be controversial to generate engagement... Whatever fucking good that is 🤷

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

I've never had a solid deal sent my way by marketing. At my last org we would get that shit sent to us in a round robin and 99% could be disqualified with 30 seconds of research.

mollybloomstanaccount

Politicker

AE (Account Executive)

Same here, the MQLs were the most wildly unqualified people to speak with and a major source of frustration

Goomba

Opinionated

Director

Still to this day, I'm amazed marketing gets paid what they do for the amount of shit ass conversion they provide.

KendallRoy

Politicker

Author “Death of the SDR…”

No bias there at all. Meanwhile I’ve been outbounding since I started at my current company to build almost all my pipe because the waste of space local marketing head thinks running webinars literally no one attends is how you get leads.

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

"running webinars literally no one attends" this hit so hard. My last org invested so much time and money into that bull shit. Rather than spending money on getting decent data they went all in on a stupid fucking podcast that got a grand total of 5 views every week. Every single view was someone from our own org.

KendallRoy

Politicker

Let me guess, do they also expect you as the AE to waste touchpoints with prospects to get them to attend the webinar/podcast, as opposed to, you know, using the touchpoint to drive a sale forward?

SaaSam

Politicker

Account Executive

They tried to push for that once and got an ear full of exactly how much we appreciated their efforts.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

Rolling 20's all day

I feel that marketing and other non-sales people often prefer less intrusive/effort avenues of obtaining goals. They just want to farm leads from a form.
For us in sales, having the person to person connection adds the extra dimension to get shit done.
I'm not saying lead forms are inherently bad, but it's bullshit to claim sales development lead gen is dead.

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

looks like someone is salty they don't get cold called by SDRs... Loser

RealPatrickBateman

Politicker

🔪Amateur Butcher🔪

This post is going in my morning meeting with reps. Nothing like starting the week out with a chip on your shoulder 😤

alphasales

Politicker

Sales Manager

Every time I see this guy's shitty opinion posts pop up in my feed I literally have to step away to cool off.

What's funny is that people roast the fuck outta him in the comments. When asked for actual data to substantiate his 'objective truths' he ghosts...

Easy to see he's full of shit when you follow the money...

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

SDR is a rough job. Easily expendable if things get bad.

Beans

Big Shot

Enterprise Account Executive

Marketers thinking an algorithm sorting inbounds will ever replace outbounds...

Big yikes.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

seriously this guy is going for click bait. like how can anyone think SDRs are dead????

you cant say that and have me take you serious.

10XQLA

Politicker

Medical Sales Assassin

Not even worth the eye strain reading it.... Sounds like a hater if you ask me.

Rallier

Politicker

SDR Manager and Consultant

My company made hundreds of thousands of dollars from cold calling. This is an idiotic take. He just is doing this to promote his book

YoursTruly

Politicker

Account Executive (SaaS)

The reality is that marketing doesn’t have a clue what an sdr does or how effective they are, especially when they have a true partnership with their AE. The idea that they’re just a bunch of monkeys dialing and email blasting without any direction is pretty ignorant. Also, i refuse to demo to a leaf who isn’t willing to take a discovery call first. Why? Because features don’t sell products. Addressing your business needs and showing how a product will make your company stronger does. There’s enough evidence that proves your seal is fucked if you demo without knowing business fit first.

i just closed a quarter million dollar deal (arr) because i created a strategy with my sdr who in turn got me a ton of information by prospecting individual contributors. We then leveraged that information to go up the ladder and book a meeting a director who then got me to the VP.

Marketing could never in a million fucking years get me the insights my sdr did and they could never help create the groundswell of support needed to get a deal across the finish line.

Lastly, i would never sell for a company who didn’t have dedicated SDRs. Mid Market and Enterprise AEs should generate some pipeline but we have way bigger things to so than prospect all day.

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

This topic has been coming up for at least 5 years, SDRs ain’t dead yet. My vote is we keep SDRs and kill marketing

ego

Politicker

Bartender

Marketers are like those people who are afraid of mustard, but with phones

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