#sales

Are we safe? Or know anyone affected?

So with truly no CRO running sales these days, and Nasser the nightmare turning a blind eye to the people who matter, very curious if anyone is hearing is any impact to sales and sales leadership.

So just asking for a friend, if after tomorrow you're sticking around for a little bit and wanna give someone a major discount afterward know where I could find that person?

Currently working in technical team think about a change to the sales team next year. Can I make more money ? What's its like working in sales in the UK, they seem to do well ? What are the managers like ? Can they really earn these big ote that's banded about?
Also how long do you get to get deals on ?

Some more major talent left yesterday , many that were the glue for Enterprise customers. There are random sales people that noone knows filling the gaps of leavers.

The 15th of November fell on Saturday so the RIFs rolled Monday . Remember 2024 rolled same dates in January

Medtronic (MDT) stock jumped early Tuesday after the medical products maker reported adjusted earnings of $1.36 per share on $8.96 billion in third-quarter sales.

On average, analysts called for $1.31 earnings per share and $8.87 billion in sales.

Cut pay plans and increase quotas. What kind of talent do you retain? What kind of environment do you foster? You wind up with reps stuffing sales with undiscussed line items. Risking getting fired so they don’t get fired. Makes sense and sounds sustainable!

Lets go !!!

Survey of 1000 exhausted sales reps says…

Wonder how much money they made.

Is the I2B channel safe? Agents sale a lot of business but it doesn’t stick.

If you are in sales, it’s clear that this year has been one of the more challenging years.

As most of you know, sales journal is a fictitious number that is used for compensation only. It’s a number that is scalable to increase/decrease compensation. For example, Canon showed profits of 200% because they were able to raise quotas and pay out less compensation. It’s not because we were more profitable on deals. Print volumes are down so where do you think they took the money from? Yeah, let that sink in.

The one number though that will provide some real factual direction though is the billed revenue numbers. Central (with that layup PK gave to his friends) and West (another joke of a quota given to people who stop work at 2:00pm EST) have now dipped under 80%. The East (the FU quota) is just over 80% at 81%. These are the lowest numbers (not counting Covid) that the company has seen in a long time. This just shows they are completely off on their forecasts versus reality.

So what does this all mean. It means that we are not making enough money to support the number of people working here. As we enter the last months of FY2025, don’t expect the company to come out with any promotions or motivators that help you put more money in your pocket. The company can’t pay us while at the same time trying to retain profits for the almighty home office in Japan. The company will have to cut sales positions. I am not trying to scare people but Canon is not going to continue with this structure at these numbers. I highly doubt we will see that bonus in our paycheck at end of December with these type of numbers.

In addition, we will continue to dip on the market share pie chart as lesser end brands meet our current customers demand for a lower price. We are stuck trying to raise the price in an economy where no one is willing to pay more for these products. We are forcing our customers to price us out when we ask them to spend more.

So what happens next? More layoffs? Reduction or increase in quotas? Change in the compensation plan to adapt to the discounting needed to win deals?

All I will say is the decisions that are being made in Melville right now will either power this company through these tough times or drive the ship right into the wall.

Congo Brands, the parent company of Prime Hydration (co-founded by Logan Paul) and Alani Nu, is laying off 155 employees in North Texas by the end of 2025. The job cuts follow a $1.65 billion acquisition of Alani Nu by Celsius Holdings, finalized in April 2025.

Most of the affected workers are remote or field-based employees in Texas, including over 40 regional sales representatives and 26 account or marketing sales staff. The layoffs begin December 31 and come with no union representation or transfer (“bumping”) rights.

Alani Nu, known for its influencer marketing and fitness-focused energy drinks, has grown rapidly but now faces restructuring amid industry consolidation. The layoffs reflect broader corporate downsizing trends across the U.S. beverage sector in 2025, particularly in sales and marketing roles.

I have no sales experience past little baby deals, can I be a CRO of a billion dollar company too?

EMC was infamous for this in the 80s and 90s. SMH.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theevelyons_the-hardest-decision-isnt-walking-away-from-activity-7391132648854884352-ULaQ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEq-rYBlAiMX5d5P6fLSN-7huEb6W8qOA0

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/theevelyons_small-hack-big-impact-im-still-fairly-activity-7359223653080707072-ZAie?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAEq-rYBlAiMX5d5P6fLSN-7huEb6W8qOA0

The cuts were probably done to fund the sales they are having this year for Early Black Friday deals to draw traffic back into stores

Just curious what’s the average pay for a Merchandising Team Manager or a Sales Team Manager if anyone knows? Like how much are these assistant store managers making when most of them just sit around and do nothing all day!

Do I have a target on my back ?

If you are looking for people to lay off, look at representatives with higher than normal charge backs. They obviously don't sell with integrity or to a customers need. These are the people pushing customers to leave in droves because of useless overselling. Just costs the company money and dilutes customer happiness in all.

It seems the directive is to charge people for phone cleanings and password resets? Anyone else being pushed to fudge these numbers? The OST definitely has nothing in it about either of these things. Any clarification would be great.

Working for this company is absolute he-l. When working in tech you are still expected to sell sell sell. 99% of our continued training is nothing but sales soft skills. The only thing this company cares about is "adding phone lines" if someone has already been escalated up to multiple levels of tech support they don't want to hear about plans or perks or upgrades. The amount of work they expect agents to be able to do is completely outside of reality. There are so many service related issues that can not be resolved by anyone.

Now a new sales target tier has been unleashed. It starts at one million and Ends at seven miiion we already had sales tiers before
This is the new company making up new things. Even if they existed

On my team they let go the top 3 sales performers with very high commissions. The guy who sold the largest deal in I M Cloud history was let go a month later. Shameful.

We're up 11% in public cloud ARR, vantage is winning in the market

Still no line item for subscription sales, so we still are a vehicle manufacturer.

But of note, we’ve allegedly sold In Q3 2025 815,000 Ford Pro Intelligence software subscriptions. We’ve sold less than 84,000 Lincolns all year. Should Lincoln be cancelled to focus on selling subscriptions?

How do Avaya has money to create such big event Avaya sales kick off where as closing down all the offices

Seems to me that if you :

Work in Wireline you should be worried

Live nowhere near any of the hubs you should be worried

Are a band 6 with no staff you should be worried

Work in Connect you should be worried

Work in International you should be worried

Have no operational role you should be worried

Are not hitting your Sales target you should be worried

If AI can do 60% of your role you should be worried

So I guess there’s 2-3% of the company that can sleep soundly…

When will the company share sales performance and financials for the new brand?

Why Do We Steer Clear of TDC?

Offerings couldn’t generate interest over the last year as its billings have averaged 6.2% declines

Projected sales decline of 2.5% over the next 12 months indicates demand will continue deteriorating

Sky-high servicing costs result in an inferior gross margin of 59.3% that must be offset through increased usage

November 4 will be interesting.

Per the article on Financial Advisor IQ

“More than 70 market sales managers were informed on Thursday that their roles would be eliminated, according to one of the sources, who spoke on the condition of not being identified. Though some of the displaced workers may be rehired later as market growth directors, there will only be about 30 openings for those positions, and they will be open to external candidates as well, according to the same source.”

"We are investing in our National Sales organization to deliver stronger, local, and more targeted support for financial advisors," James Craven, Wells' national head of sales, said in a statement provided to FA-IQ. "

Haha these people won’t admit that they aren’t making as much and that their “Sales team” is over paid and u see producing. Craven makes too much for someone who was a Client Associate

14 people that are WiFi Internet sells door kn-----s in California got laid off today out of 31 people

Funny Veridigm reported its revenue for 2025 will be flat keeping pace with last year which probably keeps pace with many of Paul Blacks, Rick Polton years. Flat Line in Healthcare means death. No sings of life. My question is can anyone point a meaningful sale over past several years?

What is the scuttlebutt about the sales kickoff of him in Denver? Perusing through linkedin, The SKO has been posted that it was an amazing event with lots of pictures showing people having a good time. Can more be shared?

Sales are slow.....morale is bad.

are not new sales, repeat after me, migrations are not new sales :-)

Ya'll need to calm tf down about it.

You can find out all the info you want via chatgpt and/or various comments on this site about it but, at most ISG, CSG and ISR's are the major people who need to start looking for new jobs. Everyone else is fine lol. Basically if you are in sales, or run apps... I'd polish up your resume because at some point, your neck will likely be on the chopping block...

CHILL TF OUT!

I witnessed a sale yesterday where the individual selling never even printed a quote for the customer. Instead they built up an entire quote on tablet and told them about the mandatory pro setup charge and how we would wave it for them. However they never even helped set the phone up for the customer nor did they print a paper receipt afterwards. This type of unethical sales is not what I thought Verizon was all about. If you can't sell by showing the customer everything then you're not selling, you're scamming

Sadly looks like more layoffs coming. Some Procurement and Customer Service roles will be going overseas. Also, more layouts in Sales. Moral is brutal at best and Sr. Leadership has a disconnect with their sales force.

Chainwide..
My sales definitely are down.

Getting rid of many of our buyers without looking at what actually sold has made many of customers have to go online or just say forget it. As we should've had what they wanted. I saw sales at LVMH up here . Yes because they can get the product to you without the hassle . What a novel idea. Meanwhile Bloomingdales sales up 5 percent too. Unreal