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What has been your happiest day in your sales career?

What has been your happiest overall day you've had during your sales career? Whether it being closing a whale you have been working on or getting that well deserved promotion, what day made you feel like you were on top of the world?

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Rallier

Politicker

SDR Manager and Consultant

Closing my first deal from my side hustle. There's something really special about selling something that you created, rather than selling something that someone else created.

funcoupons

WR Officer

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Closing my very first sale was definitely a great day.

Second best day was closing my first six figure deal.

paddy

WR Officer

Director of Business Development

Aside from the time my boss rear-ended my car and felt so awful he vouched for me to get a rookie of the quarter award at a big company, it was probably the biggest whale I closed (half a million). Wish I would've spent that commish check more wisely

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

"I wish I would've spent that commish check more wisely" -nearly every IC, at least once.

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

Having a really intimidating board member turn to my CEO and say "Don't lose him, he's the one with the plan to get you to the next stage" followed by a smile. I'd never seen him or heard him compliment someone before or after that day.

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

It wasn't really a specific moment, but realizing when everything "clicked" and I realized that I was good at what I do and it wasn't hard like I thought it was.

Wolfof7thStreet

Valued Contributor

Getting promoted to AE, and closing my first deal on Monday are the top 2 probably!

lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Director of Sales

The day I closed my first deal front to back all on my own. No split comms. Just pure cash flowing to me

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Closing my ever first deal on Halloween. It was the biggest deal that my team closed that year and I outbounded it. My boss told me to take the next day off and I partieeeeed.

JuicyKlay

Celebrated Contributor

Closing my first $500k deal at age 24!

TheIncarceration

Politicker

SDR Manager

Damn dude what do you sell??

aiko

Politicker

Sr. Account Executive

Forecasting 200% in the first week of the month 😃. Did I make it, nope, but I was damn close.

MontBlanc

Notable Contributor

Senior Account Executive

8/6/19 - I was thrown into the fire in mid-June when the Sales Director of my team for the previous 10 years left to work at a bigger consulting firm. I had joined the company 3 months before as his junior AE working on smaller accounts and immediately had to step up into his role.

I took on his pipeline, partner relationships, and was responsible for sales for the most critical revenue channel for my company. I felt a ton of pressure cause jobs were on the line if I failed, but it was a huge opportunity for my career.

I had closed nothing up to the date I mentioned at the top. On 8/6 I had 4 contracts get signed, 3 of those accounts remain my clients to this day and have combined to generate over $2.5m in revenue.

On that day I felt like I made it in the enterprise sales world, will never forget it.

SaaSguy

Tycoon

Account Executive

Yesterday- end of my second quarter at an amazing new company, almost set a record for most revenue brought in a month. Had a sweet company shindig with an open bar and got to wail on the gong a couple times with some buzzer beater deals closing.

mitts2

Politicker

Account Executive

Towards the beginning of COVID my company had to let a few people go and I was definitely on the chopping block given I was the least experienced AE on the team (although I was an SDR for this company previously).

My VP sent me a slack the day the lay-offs were happening and said, "we are betting on you long-term."

I made Pres Club that year. Happiest feeling I've had in sales for sure.

MR.StretchISR

Politicker

ISR

If you're at a loss, try dialing the sales dept or a random sales rep. When they answer you can say "ah sorry I was trying to reach (Name) but I think the directory screwed up, can you give me their correct extension? Often sales is too busy to worry about you and will just transfer you over or they'll know what you're doing and if they're cool, will help a brotha or sista out.

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