exhausted from waiting
What a day that was. I woke this morning feeling quite energised and looking forward to the day. And I finished feeling incredibly drained and disappointed.
I started the day with my monthly sales on $270k or so. My target is $221k per month, so I was quite happy with already making my target. But there was a sale on the table – we’d visited this customer and chatted at length with them on Thursday last week. It was all very positive, and this sale alone was worth $180k. And the customer had said they wanted to decide by the end of fin year – today. So that’s why I was all energised and looking forward to today – it was going to be pretty much the only thing on my mind and I was going to drop anything for it.
And in the end, the only thing we could do was wait. There was a few emails back and forth, and we were missing the mark on pricing a little. But it was still just a lot of waiting. At 4:30, we got told that there was a small gap we needed to make in order to get the signature. We made that gap… but only at 5:45 this arvo. And by then, the decision maker had gone home, and there wasn’t a chance of getting it signed today. That was definitely a massive letdown – the three of us had given so much energy, and I think a lot of emotion to it today. And if it’d come through, it would’ve been one of the biggest months in mobile sales that area of Telstra has ever seen. But it wasn’t too be.
So driving home this evening, I felt incredibly drained and very disappointed. But we’ll get it signed tomorrow or Wednesday, and I’ll be about 80% toward my target for July already… but it would’ve been awesome to have my first month in a new job be the best Telstra had ever seen in that area.
I’m sitting here enjoying City Homicide. I was all excited that it was back last week… but then realised it was this week that it started. I loved the first season, so I’m hoping this second season is just as great.