Has anyone seen my specialty plates?

[netty2424]

So I started the new job Monday. The owner happened to be in the office Wednesday (he apparently only comes a few times a year) so I got to visit with him for a while. The guy started talking boat about CGP and TCU within minutes of meeting me. Turns out he's an incorrigible Baylor clown. To his credit, he acknowledged that we're their daddy and he can live with that as long as Texas doesn't stay better than them.

Not sure how much I'll enjoy this when he has us down at his ranch for a hunting trip. Might get a little heated after some beers.

It’s a set up. Don’t go. You may disappear.

 

[netty2424]

Outside of our weekly 9:30 AM sales meeting on Mondays, you just described my work schedule.

Being an outside sales rep isn’t for everyone, but I don’t think I could go back to a standard office job. I love it.

Weekly sales meeting? What’s the goal there?

 

[Peacefrog]

Weekly sales meeting? What’s the goal there?

To meet. About sales. Weekly.

 

[netty2424]

To meet. About sales. Weekly.

Waste.of.darning.time.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Weekly sales meeting? What’s the goal there?

Go over anything we need to talk about as a sales team. Then we meet with our inside sales reps and discuss things with them that need to be taken care of (they handle the order entry, quoting, general customer service needs, etc...). We also meet with the production team and they go over what our current lead-times are for various product types. Go over sales results.

Some weeks it is helpful, most the time it’s just something you have to go to.

 

[netty2424]

Go over anything we need to talk about as a sales team. Then we meet with our inside sales reps and discuss things with them that need to be taken care of (they handle the order entry, quoting, general customer service needs, etc...). We also meet with the production team and they go over what our current lead-times are for various product types. Go over sales results.

Some weeks it is helpful, most the time it’s just something you have to go to.

I’m always amazed at the job justification of salaried middle management who thinks keeping sales people bottled up in a room to talk about sales they’ve already made is somehow beneficial to anyone.

 

[Peacefrog]

I’m always amazed at the job justification of salaried middle management who thinks keeping sales people bottled up in a room to talk about sales they’ve already made is somehow beneficial to anyone.

Before I quit Global Monstrosity Bank a few years back we had a sales problem. Market was tight and the push was on to get as much new business as possible. The solution? Quarterly, week long sales meetings to discuss how to improve sales. No better answer to improving sales than to take the sales people out of market for a week.

I sweatergod Worldwide Financial Bank and Mistrust made money in spite of itself.

Edit: oh, and those meetings would be in places like the Ritz at Lake Tahoe, Charleston, New York City. You know, because times were tough.

 

[nwlafrog]

Weekly sales meeting? What’s the goal there?

Exactly. Why the darn is it so important to meet instead emailing me? Never understood that.

 

[Peacefrog]

Exactly. Why the darn is it so important to meet instead emailing me? Never understood that.

Management needs to feel important. Meetings show that THINGS ARE BEING DONE.

 

[PurplFrawg]

https://www.media-partners.com/business_meetings/meetings_bloody_meetings_updated_version.htm

 

[netty2424]

Before I quit Global Monstrosity Bank a few years back we had a sales problem. Market was tight and the push was on to get as much new business as possible. The solution? Quarterly, week long sales meetings to discuss how to improve sales. No better answer to improving sales than to take the sales people out of market for a week.

I sweatergod Worldwide Financial Bank and Mistrust made money in spite of itself.

I’m all for having meetings with purpose. They can be beneficial for many reasons, but being in sales, there’s nothing I loathe more than a sales meeting that consists of a room full of reps rehashing sales stories and telling the same jokes. Most sales reps are in sales to make money. It’s a driver for them.

How Bill crushed a sale last week benefits me or my family exactly zero, and mine don’t benefit him.

Add in corporate spin messages and I can’t think of a better way to waste time. Email me some initiatives you feel like we should focus on and let me go do my job.

 

[Eight]

some of you just don't understand the power of the sales meeting, compliance conference call, role playing during sales training, and the "impromptu" huddle

 

[PO Frog]

Go over anything we need to talk about as a sales team. Then we meet with our inside sales reps and discuss things with them that need to be taken care of (they handle the order entry, quoting, general customer service needs, etc...). We also meet with the production team and they go over what our current lead-times are for various product types. Go over sales results.

Some weeks it is helpful, most the time it’s just something you have to go to.

-Engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
-Well, uh, You physically take the specs from the customer?
-Well, my secretary does that, or the fax.

 

[Ron Swanson]

-Engineers are not good at dealing with customers.
-Well, uh, You physically take the specs from the customer?
-Well, my secretary does that, or the fax.

I’M GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE!!!! I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!!!

 

[netty2424]

some of you just don't understand the power of the sales meeting, compliance conference call, role playing during sales training, and the "impromptu" huddle

Ha. Role playing. Biggest joke in sales.

 

[netty2424]

25 years ago, Nirvana MTV Unplugged. Some of the back story leading up to the show and how it almost didn’t make it.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...pulled-plug-classic-appearance-190047188.html

 

[Peacefrog]

25 years ago, Nirvana MTV Unplugged. Some of the back story leading up to the show and how it almost didn’t make it.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...pulled-plug-classic-appearance-190047188.html

Just read this one today. It’s great as well.
https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/11/14/18087878/nirvana-unplugged-oral-history-kurt-cobain

 

[satis1103]

I hated meetings too in my last middle management BS job, but in my current job, I wish like hell that we had a weekly meeting. Sometimes lack of information cuts just as hard the other way.

 

[tcudoc]

I finally went and saw Bohemian Rhapsody last night. It may have already been discussed here but the dude that played Brian May was a dead ringer. Overall, a very good movie and nostalgic for someone who grew up during the height of their popularity.

 

[Surfrog]

I’M GOOD AT DEALING WITH PEOPLE!!!! I’M A PEOPLE PERSON!!!

How about dealing with three different owners who aren't on the same page regarding their own business model. The only time I've ever used my termination clause.