Sales 101 - Chennai Mixer

​Picture your average day on the OMR grind. You send a follow up that opens with "just circling back" for the third time.

The prospect who was "super keen" last week is now negotiating like an auto driver who refuses to put the meter.

Someone said "let me check with my team internally" and that team, like your closed deal, does not exist.

You updated the CRM with "good call, positive vibes," left the next step blank, and moved on with your life. It's 7pm, the number's still short, and tomorrow you do the whole thing again.

​In all that, when exactly were you supposed to meet other people who actually get it?

​That's the point of the mixer. No speakers, no slides, no one making you sit through an agenda.

Just Chennai's SaaS crowd, AEs and SDRs and everyone in between, in one room with drinks and snacks, actually talking machi to machi for once.

​Because sales is a strangely lonely sport. You close a deal and celebrate it alone at your desk with a degree kaapi.

A prospect ghosts you three days before quarter end and you keep refreshing your inbox like they owe you money.

Your family hears "the deal slipped to next quarter" and nods politely, having understood nothing. But the person next to you at the mixer? They lost the same deal last month. They've sent the same cringe follow up. And they've probably figured out a couple of things you're still stuck on.

​This city runs half the country's best SaaS. Freshworks, Zoho, Chargebee, and a hundred startups you've cold called at some point. All that talent, and somehow we never end up in the same room.

​So come hang out. Meet a few people who speak your language.

Trade the war stories you can't tell anyone else. Find out who's hiring, who's got the good lines, who's just semma fun to be around.

​No pitch. No pressure. Just your people, one room, one evening. Innoru round drinks, innoru round stories.

​Vaanga, let's do this. 🍻

​Sales101. India's SaaS sales community. Chennai edition.