Click - Poor GTM strategy for Direct Sales - Sales ClickSoftware Employee Review

2.0
25 Aug 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Successful sales results compensate well, good people at the client level, when the product fits a client scenario the impact is evolutionary. UtilitiesVertical is the best sales job in the company due to the product, our complex capabilities and the size of the deals.... it is literally what Click is built for and focuses on. Quality trading on MEDDIC

Cons

Click is often exceptionally hard to do business with, whether contracts, required quantities or effective deployment and support... they lack customer centric it’s at nearly every stage of negotiations, contracts and support execution ( vs philosophy) The new SVP has a policy that supplied pricing is only valid if the clients accepts Click,s agreement in full with no modifications. As a private equity owned assets, the executive teams has a GTM strategy to increase company with decisions, many of which directly penalize the direct sales team. The expanding partnerships with SAP and SFDC often have no limits on the discounting that each partner can excercise to win the business. SAP often discounts 90% and the direct team ends up with less than 1/2 of the remaining 10% of the opportunity. SFDC either mandates Click leave the competitive deal (which Click often does) providing SFDC a unobstructed playing field and leaving the Click direct sales team with no credit or compensation for an opp they were competitive in and often the preferred solution for the WFM piece. Click’s target sweet spot for rob and cost effectiveness is 500+ technicians... that market is small and with 3-5 validopportunities a year... opps are limited, so the above issues significant challenges for the current # of AE’s. Customer service has a great ideal and poor execution. Customers are often in multiple escalations for extended weeks if not longer with minimal resolution... providing little relief to critical service operations. R&D in Israel creates numerous timing issues for US based clients and often prove ineffective. The differences in support attitudes often produces and a client perspective of indifference resolving the client’s issues quickly. Numerous changes in executive team, wholesale swap out over the last several years. Current executive team has minimal understanding of the data behind overview numbers so they draw faulty conclusions and ... actively choose to stay uniformed of the more detailed information.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

I came to Click after spending 5+ years at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. I can tell you from first-hand experience, Click is a breath of fresh air. They are nimble like a startup, have the most incredible management team that is willing to roll up their sleeves and jump in the deal to help get it done. Click has a sales first focus that makes this 22+ year sales veteran excited to begin my day, every day. Not to mention, we have the best product in the market and the analysts agree. All the traditional bureaucracy and minutia of large companies does not exist here. If you need something, all you have to do is ask. Everyone is willing to help, including the CEO. They pay their talent well, so if you are a producer, you can make money here. It's an incredibly exciting time to be at Click. With the new leadership and focus on Customer Success, we are at a tipping point and we are poised for explosive growth. I am excited to a part of this incredible company.

Cons

The only con that I can see at this time are we move so fast, marketing sometimes has trouble keeping up. This is not a knock on them, but more of a testament as to how fast we are adding incredible capabilities to our already leading product.

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