Overheard stupidity: Sales meeting edition
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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