How do you avoid burnout as sales professional when you feel like you have to start over again each quarter and year?
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Blacksmith VP of Sales | Formerly Zapier, Postman and Slack • 3y
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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Carta Senior Director of Sales - Venture Capital at Carta • 1y
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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Braze APAC Vice President of Sales • 3y
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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Hedra Head of Sales-Led Growth • 2mo
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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HubSpot Senior Director of Sales | Midmarket • 1y
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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RocketReach VP, Sales • 2y
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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HubSpot Director of Sales • 1y
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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Bluevine Head of Sales, Lending & Credit • 3mo
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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My Core OS Chief Executive Officer • 1y
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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