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Marketing Trip burnout

Happy Panther

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Dear huddle,

So i went on a marketing trip to the Caribbean. I haven't been able to enjoy it as i am in sales mode and been schmoozing possible clients constantly. Golf and dinner is fun for 1 day. Day cool. Day 3 burned out. Hard to enjoy it sometimes. Plus I am spending a ton of money and don't know if I am going to make it back. Nor if I can even make it through the year.

The thing is every client is up for a huge night every night and now I am pooped and stressed.

So day 4? Cancelled all activities after 3:00, went down to the nicest resort on the island and rented a villa. Hit some golf balls. Dinner on the beach with nice glass of wine and a book. Now back in the room overlooking the water.

I have a Heineken, 4 airplane bottles of rum and exactly 1 cigarette. US Open on in the background. Tomorrow I am laying on the beach until my flight.

Me time. Fug it.

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I always call my trips a "sales trip". Marketing Trip sounds too passive. I will be in Toronto all this week on a sales trip and I will sell my two top prospects.

I think my trips are more marketing than sales based on this.

http://marketing.about.com/cs/advertising/a/mrktingvssales.htm

Anyway finished 3/4 of the Heineken, 1 cigarette and then slept for almost 12 hours.

phew

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I got you beat...so for being one of the top 5 reps in my company, I won an all-inclusive trip to a 5 star resort in the Caribbean for my company. We are leaving for it next month. The kicker, I already have an agenda for the trip, we are staying up there for 3 days, and the meetings last from 9am-5pm everyday...what a crock of poo!

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I got you beat...so for being one of the top 5 reps in my company, I won an all-inclusive trip to a 5 star resort in the Caribbean for my company. We are leaving for it next month. The kicker, I already have an agenda for the trip, we are staying up there for 3 days, and the meetings last from 9am-5pm everyday...what a crock of poo!

I hate that crap. Can you book an extra day or two on the end. or just skip some meetings?

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I wouldn't be complaining about a free trip, even if I had to schmooze some people throughout.

What is it that you are selling HP

Trip comes out of my pocket.

I basically figure out a certain number on the balance sheets of insurance companies. I am marketing to brokers and managers that either need this for their clients or are in charge of making the decision on whom to hire for this service for potential clients.

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Well reading this makes me feel stupid for staying in the Army... I wake up everyday at about 5:20... You guys are complaining about having to go the Carribean for business? Let's trade spots for a week.

Enjoy what you are doing.

No matter what you do it's never as easy as you like or as glamorous as it sounds.

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