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Any good sales jobs out there that don't involve cold calling?

Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:35 pm
Posted by FishinTygah84
LA
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:35 pm
ETA: love my company, but man, cold calling gets old QUICK
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Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:36 pm to
quote:

Any good sales jobs out there that don't involve cold calling?


Yes. Do you have an engineering degree?

ETA: Technical Sales is where it's at
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 3:37 pm
Posted by Jwodie
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2009
7323 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:36 pm to
Pimping. But it ain't easy.
Posted by mattgr1983
Austin, Tx
Member since Oct 2012
2434 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:38 pm to
quote:

ETA: love my company, but man, cold calling gets old QUICK


If you have experience, yes. If not, no.
Posted by Will Cover
Davidson, NC
Member since Mar 2007
39513 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:38 pm to
Every business is in sales to some degree.

In business, do something for 30 minutes every day that makes you uncomfortable. You'll learn how to adapt and actually get good at it - providing you are willing to put in the time, take constructive criticism well and have a goal in mind.

Cold calling is the least expensive but most effective way for a business to generate leads that ultimately convert into sales.
This post was edited on 2/16/17 at 4:20 pm
Posted by SuperSaint
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:39 pm to
Cold calling is great if you don't mind failing all day errrday.... I mean if you can manage only a 96% failure rate, then you killing the game!!



Yeah frick all that.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
37037 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:39 pm to
what are you selling?
Posted by TigahJay
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2015
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Posted by Trout Bandit
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2012
14486 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:40 pm to
quote:

Technical Sales is where it's at

Oh really?? I've been in Tech Sales over 5 years and it's not where it's at. Trust me.
Posted by safetyman
Member since Jun 2011
11698 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:41 pm to
cold calling is kicking your arse. That's what makes you great pick up the dam phone and call.
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:43 pm to
quote:

Yes. Do you have an engineering degree?

ETA: Technical Sales is where it's at


Yea cause I can tell the pump salesmen love coming to our plant. Driving an hour or so, stopping to get $100 worth of boudin or chik fil a only to be bitched out by some engineer who can't read a pump sheet or a vibration report and expects the salesman to know every tolerance of every pump we have on site.

One vendor told me if he ever met my colleague outside the turnstile he would whoop his mutha fuggin arse.

Posted by NYCAuburn
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Member since Feb 2011
57004 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:43 pm to
quote:

Any good sales jobs out there that don't involve cold calling?


So like order taking?

lots of them, Applebees, Chilis, McDonalds.....
Posted by SabiDojo
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Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:44 pm to
I don't know how people do it.
Posted by beerJeep
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2016
36615 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:45 pm to
Try cold calling for political campaigns. That shite sucks
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
144979 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

One vendor told me if he ever met my colleague outside the turnstile he would whoop his mutha fuggin arse.

man I've been here... I know the feels
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19059 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

Technical Sales is where it's at


Yep
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5487 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:49 pm to
quote:

Oh really?? I've been in Tech Sales over 5 years and it's not where it's at. Trust me.


company? what do you sell?
Posted by LSU_Saints_Hornets
Uptown NO,LA
Member since Jan 2013
9739 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:50 pm to
quote:

man I've been here... I know the feels



I don't know how you do it. Man the worst is when a vendor does a lunch and learn and everybody grabs something to eat and don't even bother to listen to the presentation. Especially the mechanics them baws will walk right in the middle of the presentation stack a plate full of food and walk out. Zero frick were not considered let alone given. The savagery is on a whole 'nother level. I just sit there take notes and try to ask some softball questions so the vendors don't fell like shite.
Posted by Trout Bandit
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2012
14486 posts
Posted on 2/16/17 at 3:52 pm to
Can't tell you the company but I work for a distributor in the pump world and I'm quite familiar with the following statement.

quote:

Yea cause I can tell the pump salesmen love coming to our plant. Driving an hour or so, stopping to get $100 worth of boudin or chik fil a only to be bitched out by some engineer who can't read a pump sheet or a vibration report and expects the salesman to know every tolerance of every pump we have on site.


That's if your lucky enough to not have your appointment rescheduled without notice. My customers are the smartest dumbasses on the planet.
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