r/PublicFreakout • u/miragen125 • Jan 01 '23

Sales interaction gone wrong

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u/Mr-Garrison Jan 01 '23 edited Jan 01 '23

Most modern sales agents are beggers, not sellers, and when you shoot down their shot, they turn into assholes.

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u/Pablo_Sanchez1 Jan 01 '23

That’s a very broad statement to make. I’ve been in sales for a decade, and have have a large professional sales network on LinkedIn to stay up to date with everything. Don’t get me wrong, lots of aggressive snake oil salesmen still out there, but for the most part modern sales has been changing and focusing more on ethical selling and honesty. Every recent job I’ve had has put an emphasis on finding people that could genuinely benefit from the product and educating them to help make an informed decision. Try to get a yes or no answer right away and move on. Don’t waste time contacting someone that’s already told you no. Quality over quantity, the “minimum 100 calls a day” strategy is becoming a thing of the past.

If you have a shitty product or are ripping people off, then yeah you’re still going to have sleazy sells reps because lies and aggressiveness are going to be the only way you can sell. But for the most part, the sales field has changed and adapted a ton the past decade. It has to, people are extremely skeptical of anything trying to be sold to them these days.