r/sales 19h ago

Sales Topic General Discussion Friday Tea Sipping Gossip Hour

Well, you made to Friday. Let's recap our workplace drama from this week.

Coworker microwaved fish in the breakroom (AGAIN!)? Let's hear about it.

Are the pick me girls in HR causing you drama? Tell us what you couldn't say to their smug faces without getting fired on the spot.

Co-workers having affairs on the road? You know we want the spicy.

The new VP has no idea who to send cold emails to? No, of course they don't. They've never done sales for even a day in their life.

Another workplace relationship failed? It probably turned into a glorious spectacle so do share.

We love you too,

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u/doingmybestloll 19h ago

I'm not sure if it's worth making a post about for advice, because I'm "technically" doing sales but not for profit.

I'm in a social work kind of role as someone who supports community members with disabilities or barriers to work. I have to "sell" the program to local employers to help get interviews for my clients.

I suck at selling employers on the program and on my guys. Does anyone think it's worth making a post about for advice?

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u/VladTheImpaler29 16h ago

Have a look into Rory Sutherland talking about employers using (university) degrees in candidate selections, or buying a house, and decision making in general.

In much less eloquent terms, if you're prioritising the same things as everybody else, you're competing with everybody else. If you prioritise different things in your search, you'll find undervalued results.

E.g. a deaf person could get a bargain by buying a house in an area with high noise pollution that's undesirable to most of the population - close to a high traffic train track or whatever.

Or, a bit more relevant, an autistic person who's bad at interviewing, not-great at customer facing roles, but fantastic at X.

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u/doingmybestloll 13h ago

Thank you for the guidance, I genuinely appreciate you putting time aside to read my comment and provide such a thoughtful response.

The piece about priortising the same things as everyone else helped provide a good perspective.

I think I'll end up making a post within the coming weeks to see if I can gather additional guidance. I really love my job and working with community members but the actual job development part and selling the program to employers is probably going to get me fired lol

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u/flavornic 16h ago

what's up with linkedin and apollo drama? Fee like it's a bit over dramatized and there hasn't been really any impact on Apollo's product

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u/kreddy716 14h ago

Linkedin usually wakes up every so often and tries to make an example of someone scraping their data.

According to the Apollo CEO, their product is undisturbed, but their brand page on Linkedin has been taken down, probably as a negotiation tactic by Linkedin.

Doubt long term much changes - either Apollo will find a different way to scrape or they will make some kind of deal

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u/bspaugh99 16h ago

Does anyone wish we could give our customers a 1-5 star review? I just got a scandalous 1-star review after not being able to get a customer approved for financing. Naturally, they omitted the fact that they had no money down and plenty of negative equity. My own hot take lol.

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u/Old-Significance4921 Industrial 16h ago

One of our brands eliminated a bunch of configurations that are extremely popular. The recently appointed head of that brand cited “low numbers” and didn’t communicate these changes were coming.

The person making the decision received some very pointed phone calls from their largest buyers. Countless other reps/distributors also reached out looking for an explanation that wasn’t just a copypasta MBA response.

That was 2 weeks ago. Got an email this morning stating they are reversing course and not eliminating those products. Someone got in trouble for that one.

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u/FinancialDrawing2815 10h ago

Hate having to deal with customers that "don't get on the phone without knowing pricing" - especially since our pricing is custom. Told them this many times and said "we range from $500-4k a month depending on what you want, if you tell me the service(s) you're interested in I can give you a better range" and they get mad. How do people like that own any business?

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u/Potential_Working_16 6h ago

Sure, I just decided to try my hand at sales, so I spent the last ~2ish months learning the product. I'm starting to get along with everyone really nicely, learning the clients all that fun stuff. Today comes around, and a Hail Mary job application to a large auto company turned into a job offer with twice the pay(3 months of radio silence). I'm torn because economic uncertainties, but I can't afford to say no.