Deal Story

MontBlanc closed RR Donnelley & Sons for $13k to the IT department

Closed my first publicly traded company with this one. It's a small managed services SOW to start off with but should lead to more work over the course of the next 12 months.


What I most proud here was that I lost a larger opportunity with RRD in January 2020 and through the classic persistence technique and mining my closed lost list I was able to revitalize our relationship. I received my verbal on this in May 2021 and survived 3.5 months of redlines on the services agreement with procurement to get to closure.


See all my deal aren't bluebirds and close in a week!

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1nbatopshotfan
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Congrats! They aren’t an easy company to do business with, so this win must feel even sweeter! 
buckets1
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^Love this comment. And would love to see more of this type of intel shared in the WR. Knowing what you’re walking into with a company being tough to work with is GOLD. Congrats MontBlanc sounds like a great win!
MontBlanc
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Yeah... a couple of notes on working with them from a services perspective.

1. They make your company sign their services agreement, creating a lot of work for your legal team (every other company I've worked with signed ours)

2. Two-step contract review process through IT Governance and Legal that can take months due to their existing procurement queue.

And this was for a very small starter SOW, hard to imagine what the process is like for projects of significance. I'll keep this thread posted on how agreements come together for the hopefully larger bodies of work that come out of this initial engagement.
Diablo
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
Incognito
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Master of Disaster
Nice work!
CuriousFox
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🦊
Cheers 🥂
Incognito
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Master of Disaster
Double cheers!
InQ5WeTrust
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Congrats mate, love seeing when salespeople persevere past obstacles!
Incognito
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Me too 🥰
jefe
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Congrats!! You worked hard for this one and the win is well deserved.
PaleMoon
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
Fenderbaum
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Retired Choirboy🪕
Congrats! @MontBlanc
sugardaddy
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
ragnarlothbrok
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
privateryan
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
sellingsellssold
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Congrats!!
Jesterlord
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
barney2021
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Congrats! @MontBlanc
Kinonez
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This is awesome!! keep it up!
Swand
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BDR
Congrats! @MontBlanc
Flippinghubs
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congrats 🥂!
Jewcan_Sam81
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Congrats!
CadenceCombat
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Nice work!
Maximas
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Congrats.
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