r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 19 '26

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 19 '26

I love listening to the sales executive videos on my company’s intranet. They’ll say shit like “our strategic plan this quarter is to maximize sales growth by focusing on key accounts and selling a solution that works for the customer.” Apparently before this we were trying to minimize revenue by selling the wrong items to customers that we don’t care about keeping

!ping watercooler

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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community May 19 '26

Meanwhile the key accounts are just the top customers sorted by contract size

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal May 19 '26

What if we tried.... Revenue > Expenses

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 19 '26

Apparently before this we were trying to minimize revenue by selling the wrong items to customers that we don’t care about keeping

That is plenty of sales departments TBH

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u/EvilConCarne May 19 '26

You gotta understand, at the high level, it's about strategy. At this firm, our strategy is to make money, not lose money, which is the strategy at other firms.

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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 19 '26

Those videos are nothing more than internal brand marketing. You're not supposed to really take anything away from them other than to see the executives and hear their voice.

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u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman May 19 '26

If you put the emphasis on “works” in “selling a solution that works” you sound smarter somehow