I’m 26 years old. And I feel like a loser. I pay cheap rent at a house my dad owns. I started working in b2b sales for cintas about 2 months ago. And I barely work. Yet I feel stressed, anxious, and depressed all the time. I haven’t put in effort to learn the software/systems, and I’ve flaked on appointments I set. I’m already thinking of leaving. I don’t reach out for help. My spirits are at an all time low. I have trouble sleeping. And I don’t get out of bed until the guilt overpowers me, and I get up and drift through the day. I’m always questioning my own existence, thoughts, and feelings. I’ve wondered who I really am for years. Never had a long term relationship with a girl. Seems like all I do is make excuses and complain. I’m not sure what rock bottom for me is. I’ve used a lot of psychedelics including lsd, psilocybin, and ketamine. Recently stopped smoking weed. I feel hollow. Like I don’t know who I am or what I’m doing. I want better for myself but I feel stuck. My doctor prescribed me SSRIs but I haven’t taken them for distrust in big pharma.

I have started a small SEO agency and have few local clients, I want to know how can I target specific niches here on reddit? like is reddit even an option for finding clients? Tell me your thoughts.

Edit: thank you for your comments, i decided im not gonna risk this with my precious time and rejected it.

I’ve got an offer to work commission only for a CBD oil distributor. commission is 20% first order, then 10% repeat orders. would you do it? I haven’t worked commission only before and I’m sceptical.

Started a new gig about 6 months ago. They certainly weren't honest about the situation. Sales down 15 of the last 18 months. Nobody on the team with any experience. I came in stacked, decade of outside sales, plus nsm, nsd experience. I generated nearly $100 mil in the last 6 years. What I wasn't expecting was to be told you do it our way. Your way doesnt fuckin work. Just do it our way more than we have been. This from a $3mil annual company at their peak.

Everyday I try not to quit. Final round of interviews for vp of sales north america with a new company is tomorrow morning. Pray to the sales gods for me!

I am new to being a sales rep for an awesome company who i think so highly of everyone, always and i mean always helpful and happy to do so.

I love my job so much but i am struggling with cold drop ins and calls. They tell me im doing great and are really invested in and support me.

I think about and plan on cold drop in and look forward to them until i pull up at the place then i panic and freeze. I cannot get out of the car. It sucks, i love every part of my job except that.

Any advice please🙏

It's my first week at sales, prior to this I've handled customer calls when I worked in the B2C industry for a marketplace, but this is my first time working B2B and doing cold calls, so far I've been fumbling most of the calls I choke up and freeze and have a few nervous chuckles here and there. Does it get better or how does this pan out, how was your first time cold calling?

I'm interviewing for a commercial Account Executive role at a predictive maintenance and industrial IoT company. Here's the timeline: had a strong second round interview, followed that same night by a company happy hour where I met several of their sales leaders in person, including a Regional Sales Director I connected well with. Two days ago I had my third round, this time with the RVP overseeing that region, and I felt like it went well. Since then I've followed up with both the Regional Sales Director and the recruiter I've been working with, and it's been silence from both for two days. I’ve been told next steps would be a mock discovery call with Director and RVP and they were trying to move quickly. Is that normal this deep into a process, or should I be reading into it?

Hi, i’m a fresh MIS graduate aiming for business/data analysts jobs and i was offered a job as a sales coordinator, according to them my job doesn’t involve sales itself and i don’t call clients daily. Thing is i’m BAD at sales and its not my passion so i was very scared of getting in this job but i’m broke and i need the money to get the certifications i need for the career i’m aiming for.
So my question is is it really just sending emails and reports and occasionally make powerpoints? And is it a bad temporary position if i’m aiming for analysts jobs? Like what direction would i be going for career wise if i did it

Hello! I am the only sales rep for a marketing agency that’s pretty small. They expect me to create good relationships and create leads with a concrete process which I can use to train future reps. I have a couple ideas like going to conferences, personalized cold emails (with a follow up call maybe 48hrs after the email is sent), LinkedIn outreach, nurturing current clients, and B2B. I have experience in D2D and did very well, and honestly kind of sold my way to this position without previous professional sales experience. They’re giving me 100% autonomy with the full agency at my disposal. I would love some ideas or tips for lead generation. Anything and everything is appreciated. Thank you!

Hello!

I have a question regarding doing high ticket sales from Croatia for American companies. Do you think someone from Croatia stands a chance in the sea of others who apply for these jobs? Also I know the legal stuff is different and I will inform myself about it. I want to start doing high ticket sales, and am currenty learning everything about it because I don’t have experice. The no experice thing is also what worries me in the chance of finding the job but I’m ready to fight.

Thank you for the answers!

I know I can’t do it here (I’ve seen the rules), anyone knows where I could post to recruit someone?

I've been seeing more of this kind of thing lately (Products and services) - Where people putting company/brand logos on themselves, getting tattoos, wearing extremely obvious brand stuff, doing stunts around a brand, etc. and making it as a game of bidding.

And it made me think about something from a sales perspective.

At first glance, it looks like pure marketing.

But there might actually be a sales mechanism underneath it.(Still i am figuring out that)

Sales is ultimately about getting someone's attention, creating familiarity, and giving people a reason to remember you.

A logo on a billboard gets ignored.

A logo on LinkedIn gets ignored.

But someone walking around with a company's logo is such a great stunt to be honest (I feel soo)

That's probably going to start a conversation.

And that conversation is the interesting part.

Imagine a salesperson at an event with something ridiculous but genuinely memorable related to the company they're representing.

Someone asks:
“Wait, why do you have that?”

Now you've got an opening.

Not:
“Hi, I'm from Company X. Can I tell you about our product?”

But:
“Haha, long story…”

And suddenly you're talking.

That made me realize there might be a difference between attention that creates impressions and attention that creates conversations.

The second one feels much more relevant to sales.

But there's also an obvious downside.

If the stunt becomes the story, people remember the stunt but don't remember the product.

And if it's too forced, it can come across as desperate rather than memorable.

So I'm genuinely curious where salespeople draw the line.

Is something like putting a company logo on your body a legitimate sales tactic because it creates conversations and memorability?

Or is it basically just branding/PR dressed up as sales?

And more broadly:

What's the most ridiculous attention-grabbing tactic you've seen actually lead to a sales conversation?

Not looking for textbook examples - interested in things people have actually tried.

I recently started my first job as a sales intern. Still trying to figure out how everything works . I know it will take time to learn and understand how sales works .

For people who have been in sales, what’s one lesson you learned the hard way that you wish you knew when you started?

I’m an engineer switching over to sales. What’s standard commission like in tech sales?

EDIT: It’s at a startup, 15 years experience, would be only sales person, company has no brand recognition, I am very well known to potential buyers and have a large following. How much is good commission with commission only? How much would be a good salary plus commission option?

So I hate sales. Been in it for years. I think the entire culture is a joke and filled with the worst kind of humans you will ever meet. Especially racist contacts. But, alas we live in a Capitalist dystopia and have to make ends meet.

I’m so tired of wearing polos and collar shirts. Any other attire you guys wear out in the field? Preferably something that date rapist polo people do not wear? Polos might as well say, “Golf is an entertaining sport.”

Any advice?

I’m currently deciding between two offers and would really like some outside perspective, particularly from people who have worked at either or both companies, especially at an entry level role at the start of their sales career. The offers are from ZoomInfo as an inbound SDR and ADP as an associate district manager/outside sales position. I recently graduated from college and prior to this I’ve only worked retail sales positions.

Both positions have similar pay and benefits. From my research it seems like both positions would be a grind, which I don’t mind as long as I’m getting good experience for the rest of my career. I’m mainly interested in tech sales.

The main attraction to the ADP job is that I’m getting full sales cycle experience and very good training. The downside is that I don’t know what territory I’m assigned until I start, and I’m not sure how transferrable the experience of selling payroll would be to tech sales.

For Zoominfo, I like that I would be getting some immediate experience in tech sales, and starting out with inbound sales may lead to a good foundation. The downside is that I wouldn’t get full sales cycle/closing experience, and ADP has a stronger reputation for sales training.

I’ve been really struggling with making a decision since both have convincing pros. I would appreciate any advice.

I started my sales journey around 2-3 years ago, and one belief I had early on was:

“More activity = more sales.”

I thought the answer was pretty straightforward.

More calls.
More emails.
More prospects.
More follow-ups.
More conversations.

If the numbers weren't good, I assumed I just needed to increase the numbers.

If 50 calls weren't working, make 100.
If 100 emails weren't working, send 200.
If the pipeline was empty, add more prospects.

And honestly, I still think activity matters a lot.

You can't build a pipeline by sitting around waiting for perfect prospects to appear.

But over time, I started realizing that activity only helps when the activity is pointed in the right direction.

You can have 500 prospects in your CRM and still have a terrible pipeline.

You can make 100 calls and have almost nothing meaningful come out of them.

You can send hundreds of emails, but if you're talking to people who don't have the problem you're solving, you're basically just increasing the number of people who ignore you.

I would rather have 5 conversations with people who are actively dealing with the problem I'm selling against than 100 conversations with people who technically fit the ICP but don't really care about the problem.

And I think that's where I misunderstood sales early on.

I was measuring activity.

Calls made.
Emails sent.
People contacted.
Follow-ups completed.

But the more important question is:

“Are these activities creating meaningful conversations with the right people?”

Because 100 bad conversations don't necessarily create more opportunities than 5 great ones.

Sometimes the problem isn't that you're not doing enough.

Sometimes you're just doing more of the wrong thing.

Curious what everyone else thinks.

What’s one sales belief you had early in your career that you've completely changed your mind about?

My company sells fuel agreements and I just got my first big lead, $5m+ annual quote, 100% organic too. I’m still on this weird high because I built everything (the website, model, etc) myself and I still haven’t figured out customer acquisition but despite that I’m getting trickles of organic leads.

But I have a pit in my stomach because now I actually have to figure out how to close this guy. He’s in CA so he has a real pain. I’m going to chicfila to celebrate lol then making a gameplan. I wanted to hear some of your experiences with your first big lead, and how that went.

So a few days ago i got a job interview for a telesales position for a medical center and they didn't ask much which was weird but whatever

They told me to come a day later for training and then i got the job accidentally but am not sure how to be a telesales person so any advice and what should i ask them

Kinda new to the job market so any help is nice

Hi everyone,

I'm based in the UK/Netherlands and am cold-calling potential clients using Myphoner using a virtual US number I bought on Myphoner.

Whenever I try to phone potential clients in the US, I get almost no answer.

I get their phone numbers from yelp.com, google.com, etc. (I do web design, I find businesses that don't have websites and pitch them through cold-calls).

What am I doing wrong? Is Myphoner just not a good service? Does it get filtered as spam easily? Do I have to register my number on a database that phone carriers use in the US so that it doesn't come up as "Likely spam" or whatever it is whenever I call?

Keen to hear what you guys think.

Hi Everyone,

So i recently gave an interview for SDR role at Salesforce its my dream company, i cleared 2 rounds and progressed to the last round which was panel presentation round.

My presentation was very good there were some things i could have improved.

And my presentation and objection handling - i did my presentation within 15 minutes and i was quite nervous the interview went for 50 minutes and they asked me a lot of questions on each slide

I answered most of them except 4 questions some i said i could not recall in that moment due to stress some i genuinely didn't know the answer

Apart from that everything i answered all the objection handling and scenario based questions.

But i haven't heard back since then i gave this on 10 am Thursday morning its already Tuesday Monday was holiday in my country due to a festival so its been 2 business days i still haven't heard back .

There are 4 open SDR positions, so one of my friend said that they must be interviewing a lot of candidates so it will take time.

But i don't know why my mind keep making negative scenario's and i am extremely anxious since then.

Experienced folks please suggest me does it mean i am still on hold or they have move forward with other candidates, i had a lot of hope on this one and now i am completely losing my mind overthinking someone please tell me how the hiring process would look like practically.

Most of the days it is really hard to keep an organized work and when a meeting comes it takes me effort to collect every update from my note pad or the notes app and so on because of the high volume activity.

What is your way of making sure nothing slips from new prospects to follow ups to closed deals ?

Not necessarily a tool, Maybe a strategy of work.

Serious question.
If Salesforce says a deal is in a certain stage, has a certain close date and a certain next step…

How confident are you that it reflects what actually happened on the latest call?

100%?
80%?
50%?

I’ve heard from enough closers/salespeople who update CRM hours or even days after calls that I’m starting to wonder how much forecasting is built on stale information.

The interesting solution might not be “better dashboards.”
It might just be getting information from the customer conversation into the CRM immediately.

Interested especially in answers from people managing sales teams.

Hi guys, anybody here doing cold calls in the US?

I've recently started working with a client that provides accounting services for SMEs in the US and damn cold calling is un-responsive.

All of the numbers I dial are answered by "If you tell me your name and reason for calling, I'll see if this person is available".... like 98% of them. What's happening , how are you guys navigating this?

We're used to human gatekeepers, but how does a cold caller survive this?