Thank you, Cedric
For teeing up another great video.
This video series is created
Kind of in response to the you know
The pandemic that we're all going through.
In today's video, Is just it's probably a conversation between me
You the audience
And I guess Cedric is more or less the host
Who's actually the one, the producer of these videos.
Amongst a lot about Cedric has.
So first thing I want to say is:
That if this video comes across as tone deaf, I apologize in advance.
What this video is about is for salespeople.
Including myself, I still do the sales at DevHub.
Is like, you know how much should you really be pushing forward.
And, you know, for us we really haven't scaled back our sales efforts.
We still are running Outreach.
We're still running outbound calling I believe, right, Cedric?
And we're still, you know following up with accounts that we know, we were, chasing prior to this happening.
As well as current customers.
And, you know, we were having a conversation about how much is this?
Is it wrong to be following up?
Or pursuing sales at this time?
And I guess my answer is no.
Because at the end of the day
It's like, we've never had a one
At least again, this is for us.
We've never had a one call close.
Like, it's always 10 plus conversations
And someone wants to be like
Hey, we're on a spending freeze right now.
Hey, that's good to know.
You know, I can log that into our CRM.
But really, it's still a conversation between two humans like so.
I mean, again I just don't see the big deal.
I mean, I'm not gonna lie, I've gotten personally a couple angry emails back.
But again, like they don't know me.
They're getting an email from me.
And they're like, Whoa, this is so inappropriate.
We're going through this whatever pandemic right now.
And you want to try to sell me?
it's like, I couldn't sell you right now even if you wanted to buy our product.
It would take me 10 more calls from the first time we even talk.
Before you're like "yes, we're going to go forward with that product."
So, to me, it's still I hate to say business as usual.
But it's still sales as usual.
Again, definitely
We're, you know there is a lot more responses of not right now.
But I think those responses are useful as data points in the sales journey with prospects.
It's like, hey because this thing is gonna pass in a month and a half from now.
You know, plus, hopefully, hopefully less.
I mean, okay.
You let me know that there was a spending freeze.
I think they have that note to follow up in a month from now and stuff like that.
That's kind of where I'm coming from again, anyone that's like
You know, I apologize in advance for anyone that's like, "Oh my god, like, this is so inappropriate."
But it still seems like this is something that I would not let the foot off of the gas in our world.
I don't know about your world and maybe just starts a conversation
In the comments below.
But I'm open to hear all sides of this kind of this question.
So do you have any points on it?
Okay, so that's what this video is more or less like
Hey, Let's see if we continue a conversation in the comments during this pandemic.
Is it okay to be pushing forward with sales?
Simple, yes, no.
Simple no, simple whatever.
If you want to go into more details, please do.
And you heard our point of view like we will continue to push forward.
But you know, please let us know what do you think?
It's a small world out there.
That's it.
Watch the full video here.