Upper_Class_SaaS

Account Executive

🤓 Sales Ops vs. Marketing 🤡

Would love to get everyone else's horror stories but I think Sales Ops might be more useless than the Marketing dept!

My last 2 companies sales ops is really just a Salesforce Babysitter than does nothing to help. "Hey guys SFDC is down... working with their team to figure out whats wrong" DUHHH we know its down, we can't log in smh 😤

Just needed to vent... where do y'all weigh in on this?

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BusterMcDialRipper

Politicker

Director of Dials

I usually weigh in at around 175 lbs

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

😂 that's it???

funcoupons

WR Officer

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Marketing is by far the most useless to sales in most organizations. Not only are they useless, they're often a hinderance to creating rapport and getting deals closed. They often live in their own bubble with massive budgets that offer value to nobody except themselves when they get to pat each other on the back and schedule a White Claw break at 1 pm on a Monday because a "lead" came through "due" to their latest "campaign."

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

But Coup the 50-11 page slide deck...😏

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

I guess most salespeople experience what you have. I haven't just yet but I am sure it is only a matter of time lol

FlintIronstag

Notorious Answer

Chief Marketing Officer

That's hard. I don't like trashing any department. Usually it's the people that are useless, not the department. You can have a bad egg anywhere.

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

Which dept is worse in your opinion then?

FlintIronstag

Notorious Answer

Chief Marketing Officer

ilovemondays

Executive

Senior Account Executive

Nuff said.

ilovemondays

Executive

Senior Account Executive

The team's problem is always the leader.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Well, since I run RevOps, I have my bias opinion here...but I will say that there are a lot of shitheads in our line of work out there who think their job is to put up roadblocks rather than helping salespeople improve their operational efficiency.

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

Fair enough. But which dept is more of a hindrance on a more consistent basis

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Marketing, due to the energy I have to expel to keep from going off on them.

ilovemondays

Executive

Senior Account Executive

Indeed.

FromaBlankPerspective

Politicker

District Manager

Is implementation an option here?

Upper_Class_SaaS

Politicker

Account Executive

Ohhhhh, good call.

ilovemondays

Executive

Senior Account Executive

LMVAO...

Sales Ops is not needed unless you have 5 sales pods...

Sales Ops is basically outsourcing of the operational work of the Pod Leader to a person who is going to make sure the funnel has adequate levels of leads in every step and supplement leadgen where needed, make automations on the tools, etc..
It intereferes so much with the pod's work that it may even be detrimental if you don't have good rituals so that they only do what the pods really need.

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🤓 Sales Ops vs. Marketing 🤡

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