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Q4 Speeches

Sales VP's become the best motivational speakers during end of Q4. Let us share some of the ridiculous stuff you have heard this month.


My VP, told us that this year we are going close the most as we will differentiate ourselves by offering No EOY discounts or promotions. As you can imagine it is working like a charm.

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TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
one of my favorites was when a boss told the team:

"i know its the holidays but we all know not alot gets done around the holidays so they are sitting at their desks more than usual which means you have a better chance to catch them! So we all need to be making 150 dials a day"

awesome.
Nairobi
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AE
Omg, my manager just said something similar today haha My colleague asked if we could take off the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve and he said "Well, a lot of people will be working during that time, so I will not take off."
TennisandSales
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Head Of Sales
The last 2 companies i have worked for shut down between christmas and new years....one of the BEST benefits ive ever had hahah
Sunbunny31
Politicker
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Sr Sales Executive ๐Ÿฐ
Savage. I'm sure conversions were way up, too.
DungeonsNDemos
Big Shot
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Rolling 20's all day
I don't think there are many things a leader could say that would de-motivate me more than this..
Mobi85
Politicker
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Regional Sales Manager
"The beatings will continue until morale improves"

Got to love the delusional VPs that are trying everything to hit their EOY Bonus. Sorry for all that are going through this.
SaaSsy
Politicker
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AE
๐Ÿฟhere for this! Mine is so desperate and delusional itโ€™s more sad than funny. Also our entire team is demoralized so yeah, things are going great ๐Ÿ˜‚
Gyro25
Notorious Answer
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Account Executive
"Just send more emails and a giftcard with a discount" is the leadership strategy.

I'm exhausted today, back to back renewal losses and my forecast is due Monday.

Lmao, I need a nap
SaaSguy
Tycoon
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Account Executive
My old VP would tell the Cortez burning the boats story but in a pretty hype way we all liked it. Every-once in a while he would walk by the floor asking if we were "burning the boats".
Diablo
Politicker
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Sr. AE
With this great strategy close what - won or lost? ๐Ÿ˜…
butwhy
Politicker
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Solutions Engineer
Ah, perfect timing as our VP just answered a question of "when are we allowed travel again as it is instrumental to new business in Enterprise" with a story of how he went 7 places in 48 hours and had a great dinner in Paris this month.

READ THE ROOM.
Pachacuti
Politicker
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Literally just got off a team call where the CEO told us about how often he's gotten CEO's and Mayors of major cities to sign off on a deal on Dec 30/31 for millions of dollar. The whole team's eyes had completely glazed over at this point. I felt like say "cya on Jan1 " and unplugging from the world.
activity
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VP, Business Development
We need to hit our sales goals so we hit our record profit numbers... unfortunately we won't be doing bonuses this year.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Close everything you can or get fired. Simple yet effective.
RumRum
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Enterprise AE
My old VP got mad that I took some time off around the holidays, he said in sales, we take time off in February, when it isnโ€™t End of Quarter. Dude our deal cycles are 6-9months, Iโ€™ve closed what I had in pipe, nothing left but waiting on an order from a partner, itโ€™s 12/27, mind you. Only thing I could do is prospecting.

Even then, if I got a hot deal and Iโ€™m in PTO, Iโ€™m staying on top of it and responding right away. I told him this and he said:

VP: โ€œ I know weโ€™re all remote, but itโ€™s demotivating to the team that we are all โ€˜hereโ€™ from 7-9pm trying to close deals and youโ€™re on PTOโ€
Me:โ€ฆ weโ€™re remote, Iโ€™m responding to my prospect, Iโ€™ve called, emailed and talked to everyone we can, what do you want me to do?
VP: you have to be here, even if all you do is hit the refresh button all day.


What a joke.
stan123
Opinionated
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Enterprise Account Executive
My favorite quote that my SVP started this Monday morning โ€œlooks like we have 11.2 million in our pipeline, letโ€™s close all of itโ€ uhhhh Q4 is almost over LOL
Justatitle
Big Shot
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Account Executive
Lol Q4 is the absolute worst quarter to sell in. You have a month and a half to sell and then itโ€™s thanksgiving followed by everyone being checked out for a monthโ€ฆ
ChumpChange
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Channel Manager
I can only imagine the collective eye roll.

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