r/sales

This is actually really impressive. Everyone says no one is buying shit, but companies are still hiring the worst sales people or still just have awful processes.

A friend of mine asked me earlier this week to help out with their merchant services, getting them set up on their website. NBD, reached out to the top 3 providers in his niche (specialized niche, don't DM me).

1. Never responded to our inquiry at all.

2. Took our signup, never gave us access, never got a rep to respond to finalize setup despite several emails and calls asking for setup.

3. took the signup, rep kept sending generic AI emails everytime we tried to get the account setup for processing and going forward. Despite multiple escalation attempts, AI emails are all we received.

Those were the top 3 processors in his niche.

It's really mind-blowing that even when everyone is saying 'sales are down and no one's buying anything, it also seems like people have forgotten how to take a payment too!

I'm looking to get out of tech. It's exploded, my network is cooked, and even if I find something, I will likely be looking again in two to three years because of the volatility. Getting laid off while I was hitting my quota was the last straw.

I know the hiring game has changed a lot and apparently linkedin doesn't work at all anymore. Are there any good sites or network to look for something in medical, industrial, or any other field you'd recommend?

Seven years of sales experience, 3 as a sdr, one as an AM with full cycle sales experience if that helps.

Thanks in advance!

Thank you all for engaging with me over the past few days.

Interviewed with several companies, but ultimately have decided to go back into carsales. It is with the largest Chevy dealership (family owned) in my city. Ultimately I have been doing a lot of soul searching and I have to say that as a person with AuADHD the short sales cycle is ultimately the right thing for me.

I was really hesitant to do it because of the hours, but I am just so burnt out from cold calling hospitals that I am really looking forward to being able to sell a product that people are actually excited about.

Thank you for the support r/sales

It’s one of those. I overachieved by 200+ percent last quarter, have more pipeline than anyone else, but the boss is hammering me nitpicky stuff.

I think he’s been trying to annoy me enough that I’ll leave so he can give the territory to another rep.

I’m expecting a PIP coming soon with weird metrics like “responds to texts in 30 mins”.

I’ve never been on a PIP. How LITTLE work should you do while on a PIP? I’ll start looking but do most of you just put a mouse mover on the laptop and disappear (WFH) or do you feign involvement and let them think you’re actually trying to satisfy the PIP requirements?

Hi everyone,

Here's the context: I currently have next to no tools. Literally HubSpot and my cell phone. I pay for ChatGPT work out of pocket to try and work expediently. I get VERY few inbounds, and am expected to be hitting a massive quota. I explained to my manager that the quota is intense even WITH tools, and almost impossible to hit without. I have no dialer, no SDRs, no linkedin Nav/pro, no zoominfo, etc.

I sell a security software that is an enterprise sale structurally, though on the more affordable end when it comes to the usual price range of that industry. If you were me, what are a few tools you'd ask for that would actually impact my workflow, and help me book some damn meetings beyond pounding out cold calls.

I get paid my commission from premium placed last month on my second check of the month. Tallied up my sales and it looks like last month’s sales are going to be getting me a commission check that’s bigger than my monthly base pay for the first time ever in my career. Don’t really have anyone to tell irl because i dont want to be like a sales douche or whatever but pretty happy with myself.

Hopefully this new milestone will set the groundwork as a future baseline.

I work for a very small, very small company in the financial services. When I was hired on, I was promised a bonus and some commission.
He had some crazy formula and wouldn't give me anything in writing because he's an attorney. I took the job because I was desperate.

Well, he just stopped paying me bonuses and didn't communicate to me that he was going to stop. When I nicely called him out on it he gave me some excuse said he needed to think about it. Then I brought it up again and he gave me the same excuse.

Mind you our company is down to two people and he gave me his word. I know the solution that this is get a new job I get it but it's really hard to get a job right now and I don't have anything lined up. I need to keep this until I find something else.

What would you do in this situation? I keep bringing it up and he keeps giving me excuses. It's just really shitty. Shitty.

as the title says, I’m currently in roofing sales. I make a good 180k+ per year now not working that hard. My career progression here is limited unless I start my own company now.

I’m interviewing with a job at Koalify as a regional account manager. Does RAM in fintech help me eventually transition into an AE in fintech or tech? Is it worth continuing the interviewing panels? I’d take a pretty hard pay cut but am not worried about that, I’m more worried about career progression.

Anyone with insight on this would be appreciated.

I recently lost my high paying remote software sales job. I also had relocated to Florida to the Tampa Bay area. I do not know anyone here besides my partner and I’m looking for a remote job or something local to the area.

10+ years of experience of working avg deal sizes of 300k-500k+ with my largest sale being 5mil.

I have identified that the medical and financial services industries are booming, and this is no Silicon Valley, but I’m open to pivoting

maybe this community of sellers knows who’s hiring in Florida and remotely. I would appreciate any ideas that you can toss my way.

Just told a rep that needed to ask my wife before buying, because why would I not? She then asked me if “my wife makes all the decisions in the house.” Told her to get off my porch and never come back.

Does this actually work for any of yall? I would never consider buying anything from a company that tells its reps to try to emasculate customers in 2026

Heard it’s a sweatshop over there and they fire you after 2 bad quarters.

Also you only get 120 accounts? Thats crazy. I bet they’ve been hit 1000 times already

Looking at a position with Stryker in California. RepVue has good things to say.

Anyone in med sales? How is it being in the OR?

I’ve never worked on commission/draw, how do you like it?

I was wondering what the best sales role to get into if you live in New York city?

Also shameless plug - I'm looking for a sales job in NYC. 8 years of experience. If anyone knows of a good opportunity and can help refer me Id greatly appreciate it.

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Goodmorning, I need some advice from the sales community.

Background: I’m 29 100% commission and I’ve been in sales for about 4-5 years now. When I first joined the field my spending was out of control. I spent way more than I made and didn’t save much. The last few years though the reverse has happened and now I’m working as hard as I can to beef up my taxable brokerage to 100k (53k now) retirement accounts maxed out etc.

Mindset: I’m so locked in on building assets that I don’t really have any desire to spend on myself, trips or anything besides buying my freedom.

MY QUESTION: I have a spiff card that has around 10K on it that I cannot get cash from or transfer out of, so I’m left with two choices. Buy gold from Costco to sell it for cash and throw in taxable brokerage or listen to my gf who is telling me to fund a trip or ball out on myself. I’m conflicted, if you’ve felt like me in the past what do you advise?

My company offer a $1,100 Learning and development budget.

I was curious to learn what I should invest in to increase my sales career.

This is a follow-up to my original post:

Anyone experienced a comp plan change mid-year?

Our team has been informed that come Monday our comp plans will be changed. The team is at 200% of the annual number and leadership is planning to make changes.

We’re just now learning it is being retroactively applied from July 1-August 16th on all closed-won business.

Can you do that?

Excel and doing things by hand is driving me nuts and I'm looking for either a sanity, or a reality check here.

Context: clients are distribution companies, yearly revenue per client is 6-7 figures. # of products range from 5 to 15, 2-3 SKUs per product.

Question - when preparing for yearly meetings with such clients, how do you pull, sort and work the data? Right now it's all manual invoice pulling and manually entering everything into excel, simple formulas to calculate growth and projections. Ah and of course the stock levels is pulled from emails and best case scenario some spreadsheets the clients deemed us worthy of sharing with. The amount of manual errors is stupid (or I am stupid, quite likely too I suppose).

Hi all :)
I recently got promoted to a team lead position after being an AE for 5 years, and will have 6 AEs who will report to me. It’s important for me to make sure my team feels supported and that I will lead them to succeed in their role. I’m curious to hear from other managers what made you successful at your role and also from other account executives what you most care about in your relationship with your manager.

Thanks you all 🙏🏼

As title states: I just found out a large deal I’ve been working on was lost.
What started as a 110k job, change order brought it to 180k, then the proposed job was determined to not be possible due to new discovery’s.
Quote was 450k and we lost.

I’m having a pity party for the next 30 minutes then getting back to it but dam does this feeling fucking suck.

Obviously life goes on but this one stings. How do you move past a large lost deal?

For perspective most deals average 30-50k