A day in sales guy life - Part 2

As I entered office, i jus go to my seat. open my bag and take the laptop out. I switch it on and and by the time it boots on i, go to read the newspaper "The Hindu". Jus go through all the day to day activities and the editorial. really one of the good editorial section but sometimes the article doesnt interest me much but sometimes its too good. Then I come to my place and began to browse google news to get a snapshot of the world at the point of time. This one is also good.

And now the day starts actually. Began to look into numbers as we call, the target and see what are the cases pending, what needs to be followed up and jus have a look at it. Then my team starts coming as the day prolongs. And start following with them for the cases(accounts or customer where we would be working for some solution to get into order) and the funnel - the list of similar such cases. After a discussion, go for a customer call and today was a call with one of my close customer a business house of chennai, actually madurai. Because there is a large deal to happen for us but the coach(one who guides inside the customer camp for our favor) inside the customer camp told me that the deal might not come our way. As top management favored my new entrant in the competition because of some management favors. Hence i went over to my coach to get the details. And i got the complete information.

Then came back to office, passed on the information to my fellow colleagues and to my superior to take some action. But its beyond control now for this instance in this account. So my colleagues geared up to bring our top management to this account to somehow bring a portion of this. But i somehow felt that this beyond control as of now in this time. Then it was afternoon, as usual went to the nearby hotel, the famous one on the greams road. Had the usual minimeals, because none other there is better in tase compared to this. The food taste is really awful in this great hotel..but this is the best they say..what to do..

Then came to office, had a chat on this with my team and colleagues and there was a proposal to be made to the government customer. Prepared a document on the same. The jus came to a near by shop to get the bluetooth headset..had a long chat with him to understand his business and his profitability, because this shop near to my office, is been there for quite long. But i dont find people flocking there for buying mobiles or anything there..i was thinking how this guy was making profit? the best way to understand is to ask him..i asked and a sales guy can understand whether he speaks the truth or sales to us. he spoke the same of what we do to our customer.

The bought the bluetooth one and came back to my office. The started to read the google news and now again there was call my good old friend, and began to discussing on a lot of things in life and then after the chat..was in a mood to think of the organizational changes that are happening..

And now it was around 3pm..i began to think about some of the new account to target and began to take a list of those. I always think of bringing a planned approach for these. And i was drafting an excel for this. And by the time i completed it was four. Really attended a lot of calls from the morning with the respect to new cases, followup, submission, tenders..and so jus went to the near by shop to have some tea..the lemon tea...thats the area where we got some clues.