What does your schedule/calendar look like on a typical week?

This one's for any sales peeps - SDR/BDR/AE/etc.


How do you schedule your days/weeks? Do you stick to more or less the same format? For example, here's how I (loosely) try to split up my week:


  • Monday: internal meetings, planning for the week, looking at any leads that came in over the weekend, prospecting, follow ups, mostly admin stuff
  • Tuesday: external calls day - intro calls, demos, etc
  • Wednesday: try not to have any meetings - deep focus. any overflow from other days might fit in here
  • Thursday: external calls day - intro calls, demos, etc
  • Friday: weekly catch up, follow ups, pipeline review, try to keep this pretty breezy


Obviously there is some flexibility, e.g. if a prospect is only available a specific day or time. Just curious if anyone follows a similar or other kind of breakdown!

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CuriousFox
WR Officer
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Hahahahaha oh to think you can only have one day for internal meetings. You sweet sweet soul. 
RealPatrickBateman
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🔪Amateur Butcher🔪
Internal meetings WILL be the death of us all...
CoorsKing
WR Officer
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Retired King of the Coors Knights
The only constant I have is I try to schedule repeating internal meetings on Monday. The first hour of each day is generally prospecting but after that, no rules. Disco calls, deal progression calls, etc.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Pretty much the same for me. 

I try and take a quick break somewhere between 11:30-1 pm, and the last hour of the day is usually catch up for the day and prepping for tomorrow. The rest of the time is filled with disco calls, later stage calls, account prep, internal account meetings, admin, returning escaped interns to the filing cabinet. The usual.
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
My recurring internal meetings are Mon/Fri with a few monthly ones extremely early Tues because my East Coast peeps forget there’s Pacific time. I break my days up, not my week into entire days devoted to specific tasks. My customers don’t follow my preferences.
NeedsMoreCoffee
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Account Executive
I am a few hours ahead of my territory so I try to spend my mornings doing everything that get's in the way of customer time, CRM updates, internal meetings etc
SultansofSales
Opinionated
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Commercial Account Executive
Im opposite. Do all administrative work at the end of the day
Samsamoon
Opinionated
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Associate
hello
Gyro25
Notorious Answer
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Account Executive
Read/respond Emails, internal meetings. Time block for calling+prospecting and outreach. Eat, time block for email outreach, sfdc cleanup. 

Check on opps with AEs, more calls and then call it a day. Changes based on the # of demos/discos I have during the day. 
Diablo
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Sr. AE
We have loads of meeting in the first half of Monday, after that Prospecting and Prioritizing the A/C in the Pipeline. Except Friday, rest 3 days are mostly into Prospecting, Disco/Demo, Internal team meetings. 
Beans
Big Shot
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Enterprise Account Executive
Love the aim for time blocking and focusses.
Justatitle
Big Shot
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Account Executive
daily check in call in the morning, disco calls, demos, closing calls. Outbound calls and emails as well dabbled in.
NotCreativeEnough
Big Shot
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Professional Day Ruiner
My favorite time for meetings is 11-3, it’s when I’m the most alive and my brain is functioning as best as possible. But if it’s between 8-5 it gets scheduled. I try to make sure I leave at least 30 minutes in between meetings, make sure I have time in the morning blocked off for prospecting, but other than that I keep my schedule flexible
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