u/Antique-Hamster-8971

I got moved into an enterprise role from a channel role and it will be the first time I have had to cold call and cold email in several years. Back then I was doing 50 to 100 calls a day, using Sales Nav and ZoomInfo, with sales cycles ranging from one week to a month.

From what I have read, just hitting the phones is no longer enough. You need an omnichannel approach covering voicemails, emails and LinkedIn to get prospects attention, with cold calling still being the best shot at actually connecting. My org has embraced this but is still figuring it out.

What is the meta for enterprise prospecting right now? Cold calls feel much harder to connect on than before, and social selling and value add content seem to be getting a lot of attention. But I have not seen real numbers backing up what actually works, and I would rather be closing deals than running experiments.

I got moved into an enterprise role from a channel role and it will be the first time I have had to cold call and cold email in several years. Back then I was doing 50 to 100 calls a day, using Sales Nav and ZoomInfo, with sales cycles ranging from one week to a month.

From what I have read, just hitting the phones is no longer enough. You need an omnichannel approach covering voicemails, emails and LinkedIn to get prospects attention, with cold calling still being the best shot at actually connecting. My org has embraced this but is still figuring it out.

What is the meta for enterprise prospecting right now? Cold calls feel much harder to connect on than before, and social selling and value add content seem to be getting a lot of attention. But I have not seen real numbers backing up what actually works, and I would rather be closing deals than running experiments.

She joined my call and had me keep pushing at a prospect who clearly was interested but needed to think it over first, but was bought in. By me pushing the way she wanted I got hung up on and potentially lost a deal and am pissed, does this happen to anyone else??

She joined my call and had me keep pushing at a prospect who clearly was interested but needed to think it over first, but was bought in. By me pushing the way she wanted I got hung up on and potentially lost a deal and am pissed, does this happen to anyone else??

Feels like no matter how well you understand their pain points, buyers today just tune out the moment they sense a sales call coming. I used to lead with a genuine problem solving angle and actually get engagement. Now it just feels like everyone has their walls up before you even open your mouth. Anyone else noticing this shift or is it just my market?

Feels like no matter how well you understand their pain points, buyers today just tune out the moment they sense a sales call coming. I used to lead with a genuine problem solving angle and actually get engagement. Now it just feels like everyone has their walls up before you even open your mouth. Anyone else noticing this shift or is it just my market?

I’m not really an emotional guy tbh, and in the 3 years we’ve been together my wife’s never seen me cry. But yeah these past few weeks were kinda rough and I just… broke down in front of her the other day.

I thought she’d be like supportive or at least understanding, you know? but instead she looked kinda… idk, put off? almost disgusted which honestly hit me hard.

We just went to bed after that and since then the vibe between us is weird. like really weird. I asked her about it and she said she didn’t expect a “traditional Christian man” to act like that. said she can’t unsee it now and looks at me differently.

She straight up said she feels less attracted to me after seeing me cry. also said women don’t actually wanna see their man cry even if they say they do. like that it’s just talk. she kept saying women want strong men.

I asked how I’m even supposed to fix this and she basically had no answer.

so yeah… kinda stuck here. how do I even come back from this? or like prove I’m still “masculine” in her eyes? not sure what to do tbh 😕