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Overheard stupidity: Sales meeting edition

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Even the slickest salesperson can ruin a perfect pitch with a blush-worthy foot-in-mouth moment. Catalyst:SF Senior Partner Jim Nichols surveyed his buyers and sellers pals to track down the fourteen most idiotic things ever uttered in a sales meeting. Check out a few of the d’oh gems:

  • From a Buyer: “Spelling my name wrong on slide one. It’s Smith.”
  • From a Buyer: “The all male ad agency team telling my female marketing team that they understood tampons better than us.”
  • From a Seller: “A seller said, ‘What’s your title? We usually present to someone higher up than you.”

Full list at Venture Beat.

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