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Should I come out to my wife?

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Looking to get into tech sales

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Silicon Valley Bank, wtf

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Hearing about your company pulling money from SVB?
23% Hell yeah, we gotta get our money out!
36% Nah we're chilling, day to day is the same
41% Wtf is bank, I'm in sales dude
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Deal Story
SpookySales closed a deal for $1.8M
This deal summarizes how I ended up an enterprise AE despite not having the background. Picked up an account that was nearly churning when I joined, and over doubled the value of the opportunity with ...
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Guys! I need help! Here I am laid off again! This time I havenโ€™t secured anything and the market isnโ€™t the same as last year when I was laid off. Im from the UK.. do you know any good tech companies that are hiring in the UK who will notpotentially have to lay people off in the next 12 months?

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HVACexpert closed Senior Living Facility for $215k
Been trying to get a good win with this contractor for awhile, and was working on this project specifically for 6 months. nice water-source heat pump project, the first for my company. Had to go thro...
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Sales Interview Checklist

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Poorly Performing Sequence and Bad(?) Management

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Does the sequence work?
20% Heck yeah, that sounds normal to me
51% Not at all, something is wrong
30% Not enough information to decide
61 people voted
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Comissions Upon Resignation

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Best Way to Close a Sales Interview - Wrong Answers Only

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Private Jet Charter?

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Non-Sales Sales Books

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Do you read to improve your selling skills?
45% Yes! Books contain so much helpful info!
22% Me no read, me sell
15% On the job experience is more important than book knowledge
18% It's an important part of a larger training plan
78 people voted
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Sales Engineering @Careerist

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punishedlad closed a deal for $50.5k to the communications department
I've been working this deal for the last 4 months. Met one of their communications department folks at a conference last year and rekindled conversations. They've apparently wanted to switch to us for ...
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MrMonte closed New York Presbyterian Hospital for $3.7M to the IT, Accounting & Finance departments
Initially won this deal 4 years ago. We won the RFP against one competitor (the one that's been around longest, and had the most customers at the time). I got the email on a Friday, just as we were goi...
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Deal Story
MrMonte closed Childrenโ€™s Hospital Colorado for $1M to the IT, nursing departments
This was a 3-year for $950,000 deal I posted about here. https://bravado.co/war-room/posts/about-to-lose-a-530-000-deal/ $530,000 was the year 1 value (implementation + annual license). Anyway, it ...
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The Reality

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punishedlad closed a deal for $49.7k to the communications department
This was a cross sell on a current client to our new product. Met the department head in person during a drop in last summer and have been reengaging him consistently over the past 7 months to find the...
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Anyone considering OE?

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So how bad is the SVB fallout going to be?

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