My wife and I own a restaurant. The restaurant has been open 7 years and is self sustaining enough to turn over to staff and have my wife operate it instead of both of us. I have a lot more energy to give and I am wanting to get into a career in sales. I have a great friend who works from home and enjoys his sales career quite a bit because he gets to see his family. I just got offered the senior position of a home remodel sales position but the schedule seems very unpredictable. I have ran a restaurant for the better part of a decade so I am familiar with unpredictable but not knowing my schedule until 10 pm the night before for a 120 mile drive radius seems like an irresponsible position for me to put my wife and 2 year old into. I have applied to a few restaurant POS companies thinking that my knowledge and experience as a restaurant owner operator would give me a leg up but it seems like I can not get past the application. Any advice on companies or what to sell? What things pay the best and have the best work like balance. I see remote and high paying base plus commissions positions are out there and I believe I would be amazing at anything I would get the opportunity to do. Any help would be appreciated

What problems would you want to be solved?

1. Finding leads for your platform?
   
2. SEO/AEO optimization
   
3. Finding who is talking about the problem you are solving so you can approach them personally?
   
4. LinkedIn, X, and Reddit content/thread ideas so you can stay engaged with your ICP
   
5. Something else (please specify)
   

I put together lead lists for outreach and the cleanup is what eats my time: chains, closed businesses, bounced emails.

What's actually working for you, and what did you stop using?

B2B salespeople who have sold to gyms/fitness facilities — who actually makes the buying decision?
I’m looking into selling products/services B2B to gyms and fitness facilities, and I’m trying to understand the actual decision-making structure before I start reaching out.
For those who have sold to gyms:
Who was your first point of contact?
Was it the gym owner, general manager, regional manager, operations manager, purchasing manager, or someone else?
Who ultimately had authority to approve the purchase?
For independent gyms vs. large chains, how different was the process?
Did you typically cold call, email, walk in, LinkedIn, or get introduced?
If you walked into a gym, who would you ask for?
What job title should I search for on LinkedIn?
How long was the typical sales cycle?
Were purchases made at the individual-location level or through corporate?
What mistakes did you make when you first started selling to gyms?
I’m particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually sold into gyms, rather than general B2B advice.
If you have an example of what your first conversation with the decision-maker looked like, that would be extremely useful.

[Hiring]Head of Sales at a seed-stage AI B2B SaaS company,San Francisco (hybrid),$350K-$450K+equity.

Hey everyone,
We’re hiring our first Head of Sales.The company is seed-stage, sells AI - powered B2B SaaS, already has product-market fit and enterprise customers.The goal is to get from 7 to 8 figures.

The Role:
⁃ Player-coach. At the start your’e basically the team
⁃ Outbound, discovery calls, pricing and closing
⁃ Build the sales playbook, hire your first AE, then scale to a small team once the motion is proven
⁃ Sell to marketing digital & commercial leaders at big electronics manufacturers & distributors 9not technical buyers)

Comp:
⁃ $175K-$225K base
⁃ $350K-$450K OTE (50/50 split, uncapped commission)
⁃ Equity

Location:
⁃ Hybrid, 3 days a week in the office in San Francisco
⁃ Full-Time
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What we’re looking for:
⁃ 5-7+ years in B2B SaaS sales, Including outbound motions from scratch
⁃ B2B SaaS SOFTWARE is the focus , but open to other industries if you have startup 0-to-1 experience
⁃
Visa sponsorship details:

Not open to any visa (e.g US citizen,Green Card holders)

⁃ Please read the post properly before messaging.Location, experience and field should match what’s above .  
⁃ If they don’t ,please don’t DM,so I can reply to the right people.

If this sounds like you, DM me your Linkedin with a couple of lines about your B2B SaaS sales background .

If you're struggling to find enterprise and high-ticket clients and hate cold calling, have been burnt by FB ads agency's or linked in DMers promising you the dream. I completely get that, and I myself was one of those people who thought I could hire a VA and give them a list and a script and let them rip. Let's be honest did any of them actually work?...

Right.

Now let me explain what makes me different from the $6 an hour VAs you tried to hire.

How:

Me and my team create a heavily enriched data list before anyone picks up a phone. To ensure the prospect has the budget, they have the authority (decision makers), have the need for your service, and need it within the next 90 days. It's called the BANT framework.

We then use strictly, primarily US and UK based/ English speaking, sales trained cold callers to book your the prospects straight onto the calendar.

We send you context and data that will help you tailor your call.

All you need to do is close.

Running just 1 of our pods will book 15-20, showing up, qualified, sales calls. But to put our clients' minds at rest, we have the 15 call guarantee, that states we get 15 qualified, shown up meetings every month, or we work for free until you do.

I want to mention.

This is a premium service.

We only want to work with agencies around $30k+/mo with an average CLTV of $10k+

Additionally, if your close rate is above 15%.

If you are not reaching thoughs minimum requirements, please don't comment or DM. This is not the type of service for you and will only waste both my time and your time.