TLT00775

District Manager, Inside Sales

Best companies to start at for entry level sales.

I have started doing some research and trying to figure out which companies would be the a good place to start a career I'm sales. heard enterprise and ADP are two good companies to learn the ropes and develop sales techniques.

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CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

Any company other than Gong and Oracle are probably decent bets

TLT00775

Contributor

District Manager, Inside Sales

I saw the bracket from Corp. Gong is trash

CoorsKing

WR Officer

Retired King of the Coors Knights

You’re going to do just fine here :)

Personally I like early-mid stage companies, so I normally just start pulling lists from Forbes and stuff of start ups in the industry I want

suhdude

Opinionated

Sales Rep

What's wrong with Gong?

UrAssIsSaaS

Arsonist

SaaS Eater

If you want to learn process and have solid training go to a really large company. If you think you have natural game and want to figure shit out on your own, find a small ish startup in the SaaS world.

Hotlead

Politicker

Producer

I would agree, cutting your teeth with sales with a bigger company you might be able to learn more. I have recently transitioned to a start up for the culture and if you can bring something extra to the table from your previous experiences you will bring more value.

hh456

Celebrated Contributor

sales

Honestly, find any sales job. You don't need Enterprise and ADP. By the way, Enterprise isn't sales. The job is done for you, you get insurance referrals and have to arrange cars that are already paid for. If you sell something easy (socks or Enterprise) you'll fail when you have to sell something hard (enterprise SaaS).

Sell solar panels door to door, sell pest control to suburban America door to door, sell those black driveway ramps to suburban America door to door.

We bitch a lot about SaaS around here but it's the big leagues to be frank. I don't know any rookies in sales who get into incredibly well paying BDR roles. Everyone has a sales background that they got refined in like a jewel to sandpaper for YEARS before they got into SaaS.

Sales techniques are picking up the phone, knocking on the door, getting discarded like a piece of trash and then figuring out how to make that interaction a little bit longer each time. If you want to succeed in SaaS sales, take your lumps and bruises in a job you don't care about losing.

DrunkenArt

Politicker

Sales Representative

Depends what you want to do and what you want to sell. Check repvue for info too, try to stay away from Glassdoor.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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What do you want to sell?

TLT00775

Contributor

District Manager, Inside Sales

I’ll sell anything lol. I guess the main factor is the compensation plan and how well they train/provide leads

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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Hubspot
Outreach
SalesForce
Synk
Rapid7

Those are a handful of companies I'd take a BDR seat at today if I had to go back.

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Enterprise is fucking brutal work and you aren't going to make much but does seem to prepare people. Enterprise's CEO famously said that "we hire from the half of the class that makes the top half possible." You're going to start by cleaning cars and stuff like that because they know you will do it. Attrition is apparently mad high in the early days. But if your grades were pretty shitty/you're coming from high school, not a bad place to go.

ADP..has an ethics problem according to almost everyone I know who worked there.

Salesforce, NetSuite, Adobe, Oracle all provide serious training and paths upward.

desperado

Big Shot

taking a break

Series C - Pre-IPO is where I'd start so you can get the training and "rocketship" (god, I hate that term) feeling out of the way.

Then I'd go into an earlier stage company after moving up. I'm not much of a public-company/enterprise lover, though. I enjoy building teams and scaling.

sellingsellssold

Politicker

SDR

Try the Fortune 100 company list