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How do you avoid burnout as sales professional when you feel like you have to start over again each quarter and year?

Jon Boyer
Blacksmith VP of Sales | Formerly Zapier, Postman and Slack3y
As a Sales professional we are often under a lot of pressure to close deals and meet our targets. If you're not careful you can quickly burnout especially when quotas res...
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Rachel Mayes
Carta Senior Director of Sales - Venture Capital at Carta1y
This is such a great question! Having been a sales professional since 2013, I completely understand how burnout can arise, especially with the constant "reset" every quar...
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Shahid Nizami
Braze APAC Vice President of Sales3y
The biggest reality of sales is that you are as good as your current quarter. No matter how well you may have done in the previous quarter, the meter comes back to zero ...
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Justin Offermann
Hedra Head of Sales-Led Growth2mo
I think you’re getting at the grind of having to perform day-in, day-out, quarter-after-quarter, year-after-year. If you’re asking me directly: I don’t avoid burnout enti...
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Brian Bresee
HubSpot Senior Director of Sales | Midmarket1y
Burnout is a huge challenge for many sales professionals. Many folks in sales burn the candle at both ends - stacking meetings back to back with no break, working 12 ho...
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I avoid burnout in 3 ways:Make your job easier by always having pipeline ready to go. Burnout is most common when a rep feels they need to start over, and then think that...
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Sarah Mercedes (Osborne)
HubSpot Director of Sales1y
I'll never forget what my VP said to me when I was first kicking off my sales career: You know you're meant to be in sales if the end of the fiscal year excites you more ...
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Scott Barton
Bluevine Head of Sales, Lending & Credit3mo
The burnout can be very real here. Here's how I avoid it/manage it. Focus on what's in your control. I get less upset when things out of my control don't go my way. Take ...
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Jordan Benjamin 🧘
My Core OS Chief Executive Officer1y
3 ways to manage burnout and prevent it as a seller. Focus on a purpose bigger than yourself. When you focus only on chasing your quota and on yourself, sales becomes re...
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