Realizing sales is way more psychological than I thought how do beginners actually learn this?
I’m completely new to sales and come from a developer background. Recently I started realizing that good sales/discovery calls are actually very structured and psychological rather than just “pitching a product.”
Things like:
- how to identify the real pain
- how to guide a discovery call
- how to drill deeper into problems layer by layer
- what kind of questions to ask
- how to avoid pitching too early
all seem like skills people learn over time.
I want to properly learn the fundamentals of this. Can anyone suggest a roadmap on where to start, what videos/books/frameworks helped you most, or how you learned this in real-world scenarios?
Also, is there any practical way to get real-time experience without joining a full-time sales job/company switch?