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- Take High Paying Sales Job in Non-SaaS Space, or BDR role in SaaS Company?
- If you're not an alcoholic with no stable relationships, quarterly panic attacks, and the occasional desire to put a bullet in your skull, can you even call yourself a REAL salesman?
- Med reps equivalent to tech/software jobs??
- Would it be better to work for a company sales department, such as qualtrics / Dropbox / workday or to work as a Medical Device Sales Rep?
- Love sales, hate software sales
- How much of your day-to-day is cleaning up mistakes?
- How to obtain potential customers' phone numbers for cold calling.
- Found Pipedrive, which is great. But, supposedly not a good CRM
- Same company. Same products. BUT. 3 weeks of sales cycle (Western markets) vs 6 months (Middle Eastern markets) - how to solve this / intelligently respond to this during next interview?
- Cox Automotive Performance Consultant as a segway from B2C to B2B?
- Taking less pay for a better company?
- I quit!!!
- How's Everyone's Q4 looking
- Stolen Luggage on business trip.
- Thoughts about having a second job (supplementary income)
- Employee Morale should be top priority.
- Frieght Broker Sales Help
- Anyone have experience with Direct Solar America?
- Cold Call Advice??
- Q: How to approach retailers to resell my product?
- Outsourced IT Sales Presentation
- Is health advisors sale position?
- 2 Weeks To Prep For Next Role
| Take High Paying Sales Job in Non-SaaS Space, or BDR role in SaaS Company? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 08:53 AM PDT Basically have 2 choices. 1) Third party logistics company with 45k base with ote about 75k. Office 5 mins from me, door to door cold calling businesses. Comapny is world wide express. 2) Paylocity. Start as BDR, making only 30k base and 40-50k OTE. Hopefully move to AE in 1.5 years. Seems like average AE salary starts at 60k, and OTE is 100-200k. Right now my commute is about an hour round. About 20 minutes to the job and 30 to 40 minutes coming home. If I choose paylocity I may end up moving closer to the job once my lease is up in 6 months. [link] [comments]  |
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| Med reps equivalent to tech/software jobs?? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 12:08 PM PDT Do any of you know if there is a paid for sure with legit head hunters for big tech companies? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2018 03:55 AM PDT Hi all, So I'm in a bit of a predicament at the moment, and would love a bit of guidance. I'm currently a final year marketing student in Dublin, Ireland and starting to investigate what sort of options are available for my future career. Without going too much into detail with all the generic details: I'm a people person at heart and sales seems to be the perfect set up for me. I am in talks with some big companies at the minute, such as Dropbox, qualtrics etc - about graduate programs etc with the opportunity and promises of great career progression by the sounds of things (it seems could of been a bit oversold but still). On the other hand, I am going on a work shadow day with a medical device sales representative next week. Personally I feel it Could be a better option for me as I enjoy the idea of being out on the road all day and not trapped in an office etc but I'm just not too sure. Would love to hear some perspective from people in the industry. Thanks in advance. ETA: While I know these are both sales jobs, they both have hilariously different routes into and future career progressions involved. So a bit of perspective on either would be brilliant. [link] [comments]  |
| Love sales, hate software sales Posted: 02 Oct 2018 09:15 AM PDT Hi all! I spent most of my career (10 years) in meetings and operations but, about six months ago, transitioned to sales and got a job at a software company. I'm making a base salary of 50k plus commissions and the people here are great and so are the benefits. However, I'm not that tech savvy and, despite the training, I still struggle with the finer points of the software which makes the job frustrating and is kind of killing my motivation. I'm great at the client management side but the lack of technical knowledge is a real handicap during demos and things. I'm relocating in January and was planning to work remotely but now I'm considering just finding another job. Part of me would love to work in sales for a hotel or resort but, I know the hours would be crazy and I'm not sure if the pay would be worth it. I've also considered recruiting; when i worked as an operations manager, I did a bit of recruiting and enjoyed it. With my background, what other kinds of sales careers should I consider? Should I just go back to meetings/operations? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| How much of your day-to-day is cleaning up mistakes? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 09:08 AM PDT I'm doing sales with a quick cycle that's B2C and B2B, but the majority of my time seems to be cleaning up or correcting mistakes from other departments or that customers have made. At this point I'm starting to question if this is a normal part of sales because there's obviously a lot of discussion about how to sell but very little about customer service on here. On a normal day, I'm spending anywhere between 40-65% of my day correcting or clarifying things, really a general customer service role well after having made the sale. Is this normal for quick sales cycles? Is this a daily activity in your industry to? [link] [comments]  |
| How to obtain potential customers' phone numbers for cold calling. Posted: 02 Oct 2018 06:56 AM PDT Sorry if this is in the wrong subreddit. If I have a product for a niche industry, what's the best way to get potential customers' phone numbers? I would like to cold call leads, but I am not sure how to build a good list. Any help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Found Pipedrive, which is great. But, supposedly not a good CRM Posted: 02 Oct 2018 12:33 PM PDT Hi guys & gals, This sub helped me find Pipedrive, which is exactly the tool that I've been looking for for the longest time. However, people have told me that it's mainly for the new business pipeline, and not great at managing current customers. Suggestions for a CRM for managing current customers and growing existing business? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2018 11:51 AM PDT Hi fellow internet people I've applied to a cyber security SaaS company and got selected to go to the next round. The company is based in Europe but I'm applying for the Middle East market because I've been living here for 2 years. One of their challenges they have right now is that they had a difficult time keeping the sales cycle short. In Europe/US and other markets they close deals in periods as short as 3 weeks, whereas it quickly takes 6 months in the Middle East / GCC. According to the person that interview there are 2 main reasons for this. 1) In the Middle East it's even more important than in other places that you "know someone who knows someone" to close business. And 2) there is simply not that much regulation in regards to data protection etc. In Europe they introduced GDPR last spring which means that companies have to report within 72 hours of a breach, whereas the average security breach gets detected after 150 days or so. But I digress. My question is: How would you say you would approach this issue if you were to join that company? I'm sure it will come up at some point during my next call and wanted to see whether someone here has interesting thoughts on it. Thanks in advance for reading so far. [link] [comments]  |
| Cox Automotive Performance Consultant as a segway from B2C to B2B? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 11:38 AM PDT I'm currently trying to transition from a 10 year career in car/RV dealership sales to an outside B2B role. I'm having a relatively tough time getting a hiring managers attention for outside B2B roles, so I'm now looking for something on the more "support" side of B2B. I'm worried that a position like this ultimately will not help me after 1-2 years when I try to move to that outside B2B role which is really what I want. Here is a snippet of what the job entails. This involves coaching all account users in directing best practices to support clients in the attainment of their vehicle purchase needs.
Would your average hiring manager trying to fill an outside Territory Manager-type role find the above skills relatable? The largest issue I see is the lack of a "hunter" duty. Would these be a solid step in the right direction, or am I just side-stepping the problem and not getting any closer to my ultimate goal? [link] [comments]  |
| Taking less pay for a better company? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 05:21 AM PDT So I'm 24 and currently an SDR for a software company, and have been for a little over a year (this is my first sales job). My current company seems to be struggling, salespeople have been leaving (besides the ones who have big accounts), and not a single person on the 10 person SDR team has hit their quota for months, myself included. The product just doesn't seem to fit the market, and our competitors are blowing us away. I have been interviewing with another company that seems to be killing it in their space, and was informed that I would be receiving an offer from them. Great! But not so fast.. There's a few issues here: -The pay is 25K less than I make right now (total OTE vs total OTE). -I would have to live at home with my parents at least temporarily, because I would be moving from another city (and still have approx 8k left to pay on my current lease). -The commute is approx 2 hours a day round trip, and it's not feasible to move closer as the office is in an extremely expensive city (2.5k+ for a 1 bed apt). On the other hand: -They seem to be promoting SDRs from within, while my company hasn't promoted an SDR in 3 years. Not sure I would even want to be promoted at my current company either, since the current AEs are struggling mightily to close any deals. -At the rate they're going, they will probably IPO within the next 2 years, while my current company will likely never go public. -Maybe the 25K paycut isn't so bad, since it's not like I'm hitting 100% of my quota now anyways, vs the SDRs I've spoken to at that company who all say the team consistently hits quota. I suppose my options are either stay where I am, enjoy the nice pay, walk to work commute, and hope the company pulls itself out of a nose dive. OR, move to a company and take the pay cut, lower quality of life (commute), and grind for 9-12 months to get to a closing role. Looking for advice, as I'm quite lost and don't want to make the wrong decision.. [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 02 Oct 2018 04:57 AM PDT What are your plans? Have you already crushed your quota and you're going to go on vacation? Are you way behind and going to get fired? What's your plan to catch up, what are you praying for? I just started at a new company in July, 1st time ever selling SaaS - I need to close 3 deals by EOY but it looks like I've got some good opportunities in the pipe. I am just going to do everything I can to build out more opportunities, crush that number and start out Q1 2019 with a bang! No vacation days for this guy. [link] [comments]  |
| Stolen Luggage on business trip. Posted: 02 Oct 2018 07:33 AM PDT I was on a 9 day business trip two weeks ago and got all my luggage stolen the first night out of my rental car. It was a challenging trip to say the least. I would say 50% of my luggage was personal stuff and the other 50% was business stuff. Is the company responsible for reimbursing me for my luggage? is it only responsible for the business oriented stuff? [link] [comments]  |
| Thoughts about having a second job (supplementary income) Posted: 01 Oct 2018 08:48 PM PDT Current scenario: New to sales (5 months in), 100% commission and the "nest" egg is starting to dry up. I am in real estate, specifically lending side (loan officer) that primarily focuses on referrals (no online lead gen). So sales cycle takes quite a while to build a relationship and close the loan (especially with no previous experience in this industry). That being said, for those that have been in or are in sales - did you ever consider or did you ever pick up a second small side job to help compensate essentially living during the slow times? I'm strongly considering it because I want to tough out the difficult learning curve my job provides (heard it takes 1-2 years to break into the biz) but also don't want to over work myself to the point of actual depression. The second job would just be a small hobby (reffing some soccer games $12/hr for about 4 hrs after work). [link] [comments]  |
| Employee Morale should be top priority. Posted: 02 Oct 2018 05:15 AM PDT "Any organization where employees' morale and motivation is at the bottom of its priorities will soon see its bottom line fade away"-Mritunjaya Malhan. Your enriching thoughts are most welcome. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2018 05:47 PM PDT I am a freight broker, and feel that I have been running into a wall. Every cold call I do, I get 4-5 responses: "we use our own trucks" *click* "we're customer/vendor routed" *click* "already working with someone; we aren't interested" *click* "we don't use brokers" *click* or "Sure send me an email" and then they blast lanes for me to quote which I somehow always end up being too high when there is no way I could even get a truck + make any money on what they want me to do it for. What should I do? I try to ask good questions, but it just seems that everyone I speak with is incredibly disinterested. It doesn't even feel like I am selling it just feels like I am making 100 desperate calls a day hoping that something sticks. Any help/advice is appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone have experience with Direct Solar America? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:23 PM PDT I applied for the job on indeed. They texted me tonight as our first contact and asked to meet at a Starbucks in town. They say they will get me 10 appointments per week and pay $1000 per sale. No base salary. I'm going to go to the meeting and see what they say but it already feels like a scam. Does anyone have any experience with this company? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2018 08:38 PM PDT I'll be taking on a new role B2C appointment setting over the phone for residential solar. I'll be making around 300-400 daily calls in the afternoon and i'm being paid hourly + commission on every appointment set. - How many appointments can i expect to set making 300-400 calls? - I know that cold calling of any type (B2C Or B2B) will involve plenty of rude hangups, what will the best approach be to get people to listen and be willing to meet with a Outside sales rep? - On average what % of these appointments set by phone do you think are actually eventually closed via the outside sales guys? Any other tips and tricks, thoughts, and advice you can offer is greatly appreciated!!! [link] [comments]  |
| Q: How to approach retailers to resell my product? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:40 PM PDT Hi team, I have a on line shop where I sell a few home organisation products. I would like to approach other retailers with an offer to stock my products, but have no idea what is the best way to do. Can anyone guide me into the right direction? Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Outsourced IT Sales Presentation Posted: 01 Oct 2018 01:45 PM PDT Hi everybody, I work with an outsource IT company. Mainly we provide IT support for consumer and commercial (mainly commercial) use. I am putting together my first sales presentation but i've never done anything of the sort before. Any tips or links you guys could provide to get me started i would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Is health advisors sale position? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 08:19 PM PDT Got a job at us health advisors, anyone have any experience there? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2018 08:12 PM PDT Finished a role in the Telco industry and moving into SaaS (DocuSign) which I'm very excited for. Moving from an AE role to an MDR role (step back but worth it I believe. Training in Seattle for a week (originally from Australia) which is pretty cool. What would be some suggestions in order for me to be as prepared as I could be to smash targets and make a good impression? [link] [comments]  |
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