World Cup - are EMEA people worried about Q4 quota?

Starting to get worried that no one in Europe is going to answer the phone once the world cup starts next month. I'm less worried about leads and more about things in pipeline that I would otherwise expect to close by the end of the qtr that will get pushed out bc nothing gets approved until Jan when buyers finally care about work again, by which time I will already have felt the pain of missing quota in the FYE. Maybe I'm just being paranoid but was curious if anyone else is having similar concerns, and if so whether they've either raised with regional sales management or explicitly brought up with clients and gotten them to not wait until the last minute? Or any other advice / thoughts would be welcomed. Thanks everyone.

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Kosta_Konfucius
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What happened 4 years ago? When a city wins the superbowl or have a huge win, I get way more responses so it wont be all bad.
Sunbunny31
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Sounds like an opportunity to obtain event tickets and bring some targets along, and do business that way.

But in reality, you're just going to have to do your best, and at least you'll have something to connect over. Games aren't going on every single hour of every single day, so you're just going to have to be very aware of what times are going to work to possibly be able to connect.

Best of luck and goooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!
CuriousFox
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And Merry Christmas time 🎄
Diablo
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Don’t focus on things you cannot control, just prep from now and how many you can expedite. I would try to create some sort of urgency.
Sunbunny31
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Where’s @SoccerandSales ? Might have a qualified opinion on this topic!
Gasty
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Isn't it happening in Qatar? @vlookup1990
TennisandSales
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o wow. i did not think of this but yeah I would for sure be worried if im trying to do work in Europe haha. I would maybe start to get ahead of it, talk to your contacts about eh World Cup try to get a sense of what ppl will be doing
Notmyrealname
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All of the knockout games will be played late afternoon or evening. Shouldn't be too distracting unless you're contacts are travelling to Qatar
jefe
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Is it really that disruptive to business as a whole?!

No impact in North America lol
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