Partners, what's been the impact to ongoing sales conversations? Do you think we're all screwed for the year?

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Short answer - Yes
Long answer - Yeeeessssss

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Yup. Yup. Yup.

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Delayed decisions. Reluctance to move forward with anything planned.

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Seeing a lot of deferrals to later type messaging on open RFPs...

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I don’t think we are “screwed.” It’s going to get very bumpy though. The extent of the bumpiness will be 100% dependent upon how long this goes on for.

What I also think is going to happen is that some of us are going to revert to our core fundamentals: helpful, team player or sharp elbowed, lone wolf. We’ve not seen a slowdown in a long time. There’s going to be some super bad behavior that surfaces (already started to see it). What will be interesting is who sticks to the good behavior and who shows their true colors.

#DB

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I’m still having plenty of sales conversations

That’s not the question

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