Sales

Am I wrong for judging coworkers who look unkempt on Zoom? I notice a massive double standard with hybrid colleagues. When they're in the office, they look sharp and professional. On WFH days, they jo...

I’m not sure what I’m doing. I’m 9 months into a new sales job and everyday I have a feeling of incompetence and straight up DOOM. I have a clear idea of what I’m suppose to be doing but keep falling ...

How do you deal with a customer who is an absolute jerk, but you gotta talk to them and work through projects with them? Like they are always critical of you or your company, but it's above their pay ...

How do you handle prospects who try to price-match your services? I had a potential client tell me flat out that they can get the same thing cheaper from one of our competitors. If that happens, do yo...

Is it just me, or everyone bc I applied to over 40 places and none have emailed me back, not even a rejection, I’ve been trying to find a job for weeks and I get no replies, I’m really struggling and ...

What keeps you in sales? Is it the money the competition the growth or something else entirely? Was there a moment where you realized this was the right career for you What continues to motivate you d...

Ive noticed that the most relaxed reps I know are the ones who spend Friday afternoon clearing the deck so they don't have a looming to do list haunt them on Monday morning. What’s that one task you ...

I was laid off this morning because of corporate restructuring. If I immediately start working for a competing business in the same city, can I get in trouble? I need to pay my bills, and they let me ...

My company just did a massive round of layoffs, and I’m panicking a little. I’ve been here a month and watched our team shrink from 12 to 5. They let all four new SDRs go in this round, and it feels l...

Sometimes a bad discovery call or a rude prospect can ruin my entire afternoon and kill my momentum. I’m trying to find ways to bounce back faster so one bad interaction doesn't tank my whole day. How...

Does working in sales make you feel like you're losing your edge? I’ve been working in sales for 5 years, since graduating from college, and feel like I'm less intelligent than before I started school...

Stay in an IC role? Or jump to people management? Goal is to make as much as possible while also being valuable in the market. I feel like the managerial path tends to devalue ones experience as they ...

Can’t decide between moving to Seattle or NYC. Account Executive, 36 and looking for a change. Anyone have any experience in these two places?

I once had a prospect tell me after losing the deal that my discovery was great but I had started pitching too early and lost the thread of what they actually cared about, and that single piece of fee...

Even when my pipeline looks strong, I still get this wave of anxiety at the beginning of every month. Does anyone else feel like they're only as good as their last closed deal, no matter how many wins...

I’d way rather take a quick no right out of the gate than spend months babysitting a pipeline full of maybes that are never going to close. Are you glad when they just cut to the chas or do you try to...

Asurion? anyone work there? Currently working in solar. Got an offer with Asurion for In-Home Sales & Tech Support. Thinking of accepting the offer. Anyone have experience with this role?

I spent a long time thinking moving into management was the obvious next step in a sales career, and then watched several of the best reps I knew become mediocre managers almost overnight, which made ...

A few years into my career I realized I had gotten so specialized in one category that I had quietly made myself harder to recruit, and by the time I noticed it the résumé already told a pretty narrow...

I have sat in forecast calls where everyone on the team was performing total confidence theater and the number we called had almost no relationship to what was actually in the pipeline, and I never qu...