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This has to be killing the sales industry
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:36 am
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:36 am
Your clients are all busy as hell either with either their families, or ensuring that their companies can support everyone working from home. The first thing to go in that case is talking with vendors.
Got to imagine our sales baws are taking a beating. Hang in there fellas.
Got to imagine our sales baws are taking a beating. Hang in there fellas.
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Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:37 am to truthbetold
Us peeps downstream of Sales will be fricked when orders stop coming in.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:38 am to truthbetold
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This has to be killing the sales industry
Not for me, I'm a door-to-door TP salesman. Now that everyone is staying home from work I'm really cleaning up!
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:40 am to truthbetold
They aren’t even allowed to call on our plant now. They’ll just hang out at local watering hole and put out names on their receipts.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:40 am to truthbetold
Yep, I do advertising. This sucks.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:41 am to truthbetold
All of my events and dinners are getting canceled. Just got the email this morning to forecast lost opportunities due to the virus. 
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:49 am to truthbetold
My FIL prints promotional materials. A big chunk of his business comes from companies printing stuff for festivals, which are all being cancelled/postponed. Lucky for him, he was paid for most of the ones that start next month despite them being cancelled.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:50 am to truthbetold
My industry is collegiate sports sponsorship sales. We are screwed.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:51 am to truthbetold
I'm retired, but my wife works for a real estate title company and a lot of realtors are shutting down "Open Houses" for the time being.
Title companies are cancelling seminars and conventions and the marketers are finding it harder and harder to have "meet and greets" with potential clients.
Even though most of my wife's end of the business is handled over the phone or through e-mails, buyers, sellers, attorneys and sometimes realtors still have to meet to close the sale in an office.
It is definitely having an effect and they are hoping it's short-term.
Title companies are cancelling seminars and conventions and the marketers are finding it harder and harder to have "meet and greets" with potential clients.
Even though most of my wife's end of the business is handled over the phone or through e-mails, buyers, sellers, attorneys and sometimes realtors still have to meet to close the sale in an office.
It is definitely having an effect and they are hoping it's short-term.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:52 am to truthbetold
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This has to be killing most industries
Fify
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:52 am to truthbetold
Enterprise Software sales are mostly fine, and depending on the product/market could see small lifts.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:54 am to truthbetold
I cracked the door wide enough to grab the bag of chik fil a then slammed it shut on a vendor. Hopefully he understands.
This post was edited on 3/13/20 at 10:55 am
Posted on 3/13/20 at 10:54 am to truthbetold
quote:Unless you are selling infection control or anything connected
The first thing to go in that case is talking with vendors.
Got to imagine our sales baws are taking a beating. Hang in there fellas.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:01 am to tigerfoot
Medical supply sales are booming!
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:02 am to truthbetold
Not booze sales. It's like the holidays out here.
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:05 am to Patio
quote:Problem is everything they want to buy is not available
Medical supply sales are booming!
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:08 am to dbeck
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TP salesman
Work is shitty?
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:09 am to truthbetold
I own an insurance brokerage and things are, shockingly, going really well
everyone is home with time on their hands that they didn't have last week or last month
holla at ya boy
everyone is home with time on their hands that they didn't have last week or last month
holla at ya boy
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:10 am to Capt ST
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They aren’t even allowed to call on our plant now. They’ll just hang out at local watering hole and put out names on their receipts.
Yep, my guys haven’t been able to go in plants last few days, guess it will be a quiet few weeks
Posted on 3/13/20 at 11:16 am to truthbetold
I am in Cloud Technology sales so most of my work was already remote anyways....this affects us only because of the fact that companies are either pausing projects or have put on hold projects...I continue to sell and have meetings with clients. Most international companies I'm dealing with just see this as a risk, not company ender.
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