I made this
I made this
cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1069636
Forgive the hastily made meme. All too common with us engineers.
no no no, this is the wrong way around
because sales and marketing sell it before it even exists
Sales: "Can we do this?
Dev: "No, we cannot."
Sales: "Uhhhh... But I already told the customer we could."
Dev: "That's called lying. You lied to the customer."
Sales: "...So you'll have it done next week?"
Dev: "I'm going to need at least three weeks."
Sales: "...But I already told the customer two weeks."
Dev: Sigh
truth. Why wait for a product at all? Just sell it now, then yell at your engineers for taking so damn long!
Except when a bug pops up somewhere. Ownership/Responsibility changes in sub-Planck-second time when assigning blame.
In our head nothing ever was wrong, bugs only came along when you came along! You should have been able to build it in days, what's so hard about this?
Which is fine with me tbh because fuck sales. I'd never survive independently, because I'd tell the customer the truth. And the truth doesn't sell. I don't have the energy to lie about how everything is better than it actually is.
Try all work done period. C suite "I made this"
This is almost an anti-meme
ah but they sometimes put a sticker on it or sth
I mean you CAN just get an evening marketing job, 8-5 engineering, half hour break, 5.30-1:30am writing marketing copy, designing campaigns, A/B testing, budget management, demand gen, lead gen, sales enablement, CRO/CPC/CAC management, Martech tool alignment, attribution tracking, SEO research, content marketing, press releases and 3P distribution tools, all of which matched against brand voice and targeting to ABM the specific ICP within each vertical.
There's literally nothing stopping you.
Yea, but, alternatively, sales could just stop being entitled pricks. I've worked with sales people that were excellent - they had a technical mind and were able to grasp what our product could and couldn't do and, if they were uncertain... they would fucking ask me. And I've worked with sales people that won't tell me they made a sale until two months later when the deadline is a week away.
Best software salesman I ever met was the best because he knew how to fucking listen. He worked for an electrical engineering software company. First time I ever met the guy, he flies into town to meet with my employer, his client, for the first time after taking over the account. I called him up and asked if I could buy him dinner the night before the big meeting, basically to warn him that they're on the verge of getting fired.
Dude walks into the meeting the next day with nothing but a pen and a legal pad, introduces himself, and says something like, "I'm not happy because I've heard you all are not happy. I'm going to do whatever I can to fix that so I want you to tell me every single problem you're having no matter how small you think it is." And they let him have it for a good two hours. He took it like a champ, listened to and documented every single complaint, and made an actual effort to get fixes for the things we were upset about. He saved a $2 million a year account just by listening and making an effortto help keep the customer happy.
I guess the moral of the story is, good salespeople don't sell products. They solve problems.