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    Interview Question: Sell me this Sharpie. Sales and Selling

    Interview Question: Sell me this Sharpie. Sales and Selling


    Interview Question: Sell me this Sharpie.

    Posted: 29 May 2018 10:10 AM PDT

    How would you go about selling an interviewer a sharpie?

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    Sales Mentors?

    Posted: 29 May 2018 10:27 AM PDT

    Hello /R sales

    I was wondering if anybody could sort of mentor me on the way of Sales. I have lots of questions and would love to bounce off some ideas of what i'm thinking and what I can do better as far as script, how I'm demoing, etc. I'm currently reading How I raised myself from Failure to Success in selling and learning a lot. If someone could spare some time whether it just be VIA email or a brief call eventually I would greatly appreciate it!

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    How important is a degree to land a good sales position?

    Posted: 29 May 2018 03:35 AM PDT

    I'm in my third year of vet school and I just can't force myself to do this anymore. No debt. 21M. Would be moving back with my dad in CT (currently living in Russia), until I get a few dollars in my pocket. Would like to move to nyc or California.

    No prior sales experience

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    What do you say to the "gatekeeper" when you want to speak to the person in charge who would buy your product? Instead of just taking a message.

    Posted: 29 May 2018 10:37 AM PDT

    New business owner. Primary target client are small business owners. Not sure how to approach the sales discussion.

    Posted: 29 May 2018 08:51 AM PDT

    Hi everyone.

    I just started my own business and am preparing to start attempting at making some sales. Waiting on my county paperwork to clear so I thought I'd ask you guys for some advice.

    A little background. I'm 26 and an engineer by trade. I've never had to sell somebody a product directly before but I feel comfortable talking with people and am generally considered very likable and personable by the people I know and work with. I started my business with the plan of becoming financially independent and providing more for my family than I currently am. For the time being this business will be on top of my current full time engineering position.

    I have my website finished as well as my products and pricing structures. I can post the link if anyone wants to assess it. I also have statistics that work very favorably for my business model to present to the potential clients. What I'm struggling with is the approach and buildup. I'm not sure how to just walk into a business and start up a discussion leading into a sales pitch. Anybody here with any experience dealing with selling to small businesses want to please share some advice?

    Thank you all in advance and I greatly look forward to any and all responses and criticisms.

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    I'm 21 years old how do I break into tech sales?

    Posted: 28 May 2018 10:20 PM PDT

    Background: 21 years old, Third year in college not taking it too seriously, Currently work at a Microsoft store as an product advisor.

    Summer just started and been seriously considering a career in tech sales but don't really know where to look and how I can turn my current experience into a job. I just began reading the challenger sale and some of it makes sense but I have no experience in inside sales only retail so some parts are kind of off to me but I get where its going.

    Any help would be great, thank you!

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    Any sales professionals who can help me write my cover letter?

    Posted: 29 May 2018 08:22 AM PDT

    Is it dangerous to ask for help on my cover letter on reddit?

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    Without sounding like an asshat in marketing sales, how can you say that you rank #1 in

    Posted: 29 May 2018 11:44 AM PDT

    As an SEO, ranking #1 on the front page of Google is hard ... so when the marketing agency ranks #1 for the most sought after keywords for our own SEO agency ie (City + SEO) - I thought SBOs would be a bit more interested. They're not.

    When I bring this up, I get a "yeah right", even though a 10-second fact check can show our company or a - theres 100s of calls I Get, and lumps us with them.

    This alone brings about 5k per month in unique monthly visitors. The office is growing, very comfy company. And thats just one major keyword verses thousands more.

    Theres a million SEO opporunities, but theres only one that takes the cake in our own niche and ranks #1 - and thats us.

    How can I better communicate this and demonstrate I can do the same for my clients?

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    I’m stuck on it I should get a degree or not

    Posted: 29 May 2018 07:10 AM PDT

    I know it's possible to make a living without a degree in sales, but I know with a degree I can make more potential income, but also there's people making 6 figures in sales without a degree, so I don't know what I should do.

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    Selling the product or selling the demo?

    Posted: 29 May 2018 10:46 AM PDT

    Looking for some ways to improve the number of inbound leads I convert into demos set for the AE. I battle sometimes with the idea of "am I selling the demo or am I selling the product?"

    What techniques do you guys use to increase the likelihood a lead will agree to sit in on a demo?

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    Learning Product Knowledge - Retail enviroment

    Posted: 29 May 2018 06:24 AM PDT

    I have been at my new role for about a week now and there is probably about 80 main items im selling with about 350 other items i could also sell.

    My issue is the 80 items are televisions, so about 5 brands and 16 or so tv's per brand, then each brand has about 10 linked high end audio equipment.

    In store i look at them and its a bright 80-100 tvs with little specs and it all blurs.

     

    What is a good way to simplify this to learn better.

    Should i start at a brand first, then research that brand, should i start with the main selling specs first and which tv's have those?

    Help great guys and girls of /r/sales

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    Do your customers schedule meetings with you through a meeting page?

    Posted: 29 May 2018 12:50 AM PDT

    Sup guys nd gals!

    I'm currently doing research for a startup (a smart meeting scheduling software) and because we're integrating with several CRM's, I'm really curious how and why sales people would use meeting scheduling tools. The main idea that we're working on is that every user can generate a meeting page. Depending on the goal (introduction meeting, demonstration of product/service, etc...) the meeting page can be customized OR they can use a template.

    Now, my questions to you are: 1) for what kind of scenarios (introduction, meeting, revising) would you use a meeting page? 2) What kind of information would you like to receive from your potential client before scheduling a meeting (perhaps why they're interested in your services)? 3) What are some crucial fields that should be on the meeting page (like email, name, location, duration) 4) What are some of the reasons you'd rather stay away from meeting pages?

    Really appreciate your help!

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    Steve Kerr & Tyronn Lue prove you don't need to be the best player to be the best manager

    Posted: 28 May 2018 11:45 PM PDT

    Companies love to promote their best salespeople into manager roles...and it often doesn't work out. Both head coaches in this year's NBA finals were mediocre role players who almost always came off the bench. Fascinating.

    Steve Kerr played 910 games over the course of 15 NBA seasons. He averaged 6 points per game and started only 30 times. He was on 5 NBA Championship teams as a player, and never once started...in the regular season or in the playoffs. He has now made it to the NBA finals in 100% of his first four seasons as a head coach.

    His opposing coach is Tyronn Lue, a guy who averaged 8.5 points per game over the course of 11 seasons, and only started in 173 of 554 games. He has been a head coach for 3 years, and has made the NBA finals 100% of the time.

    Not the best players, but in today's game, they are the best coaches.

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    Resume advice for SaaS SDR -> SMB AE

    Posted: 28 May 2018 03:27 PM PDT

    Hey all,

    I'm going to test the waters of the job market to see if I can make this switch. I graduated from a good school last summer with a 3.5 GPA and started working the day after. Here is what I have so far:

    Senior Enterprise Sales Development Representative

    400 person company with great sales rep reputation

    • Top 5 performer with 125% quota attainment YTD

    • BDR for Fortune 500 accounts such as x, y, z

    • Sourced revenue totaling $220,512

    • Regularly shadowed product demos and helped run demo for client x

    • Trained new BDRs and AEs on prospecting and Challenger cold calling methods

    Question 1: I was promoted from BDR to Sr. Enterprise BDR earlier this year. Should I keep my title as is?

    Question 2: What is the likelihood of me getting a decent SMB AE job?

    Any and all feedback is both welcomed and appreciated!

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    Preparing for week of sales

    Posted: 28 May 2018 05:25 PM PDT

    What is a good way to prepare for your week in sales? I will preface this post my target is to reach 100 customers by phone per week, follow up on pipeline of deals, network (local chamber breakfast and lunches) and at this point I'm working a few hours a week on career development/ next role. I primarily use 10x daily schedule to track my progress

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    How do you handle objections like

    Posted: 29 May 2018 12:40 AM PDT

    We are currently covered and don't need external help

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    Good settings to conduct interviews of strangers?

    Posted: 28 May 2018 02:13 PM PDT

    Hi team. I am entering sales from a technical background. I know my product better than most and from that perspective am very confident. My gap is that I don't have experience in prospecting cold opens are a challenge, mostly due to not doing it at all for many years (last time I did this with any routine was when single LOL).

    My manager has sent me on an exercise to meet a dozen or so strangers, who may or may not be prospects, and ask them what they think of my product, what kinds of things about it do they like, and what could be improved? From there, ideally, it will flow organically.

    What's a good setting to easily begin this kind of conversation? I had a try in a public area with lots of pedestrians and found it challenging and a very high rejection rate.

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    Is vector marketing legitimate?

    Posted: 28 May 2018 09:01 PM PDT

    Is apple legit?

    Posted: 28 May 2018 10:16 PM PDT

    Looking for a sales entry level job. People told me it's a pyramid scheme though...

    Edit: so I learned the difference between what's legit and what isn't legit. What people were telling me was them referring to what a Ponzi scheme is. Call to whatever but if a company is just exchanging money and not over services or products, then it's a ponzi. But it's crazy how people still refer it as a pyramid scheme. Everything is a pyramid. You got the food pyramid, corporate pyramid, and even the Great Pyramids lol. The majority needs to understand and be educated on what the difference is between a legit business and a real scam.

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