Which step takes the longest time in your sales process? How are you dealing with it?

Timeframe for deal milestones?

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funcoupons
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Tie between proposals/negotiations and close to go live.
Salespreuner
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Regional Sales Director
Almost same, with me🤞🙌
salesnerd
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Head of Growth
Yeah, gotta go with what others have said here... LEGAL 
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Regional Sales Director
Hmmm. Gotcha. Okayy
goose
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Sales Executive
I keep a swipe file of everything that gets approved by legal to short cut the system.

"Mr Prospect, we typically can modify these terms... but not these..."
CaneWolf
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
Legal
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Regional Sales Director
Ohh!! Okayy!
Justatitle
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Account Executive
Contracting and dealing with legal over things that are 99.9% not going to happen anyway. So so frustrating 
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Regional Sales Director
Gosh. True that 💯
Beans
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Enterprise Account Executive
Our software has a right to win in so many verticals - our target customer is a vast list. 

Drilling down on the "perfect" fit takes time, and considering we tend to really only complete with established internal systems, driving home the benefits of a switch take even longer and a lot of legacy folks who built those systems (despite not being time or cost efficient) are hesitant to let their old projects go.

Newer companies embrace us with open arms however. 
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Regional Sales Director
Ah, okay. That's good to know. So closing or rather rev generation is time consuming?
kelun8
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AE
Security/IT! I sell software and the longest it took was 18 days for IT to approve the vendor.

Legal is also very tedious, hate reading contracts and redlines.
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Regional Sales Director
18 days!! Oops! I hear ya
goose
Politicker
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Sales Executive
Unaware to aware...
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Regional Sales Director
Perfect
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