Marnel14

Sales Development Representative

First week as a SDR any advice or tips?🤔

I would love to hear some thoughts on everyone's first week as a SDR and some advice or knowledge to bring in into my first week on the job! please let me know if you have anything for me!😁

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SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

pick up the phone

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Seems legit 😆

IndianaShep

Politicker

Director of Sales and Marketing

This

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

best advice for anyone in sales.

SADNESSLieutenant

Politicker

Officer of ♥️

SMILE AND DIAL BABY

Fenderbaum

Politicker

Retired Choirboy🪕

Just remember, first impressions are lasting. Be yourself! You're there to learn and start killing it.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Some great advice in the academy to start your role in sales.

I highly recommend getting a clear 7 day-30-60-90 for goals to strive for.

Knock out all that BS training in compliance as soon as you can too

tightlines

Politicker

Account Executive

Meet people! Your first week will feel like a lot, but over time it’ll be good to have friends to learn from. Eventually get some meetings with top SDRs to find efficiency hacks, and then a few friendly AEs to learn what the best SDRs do

Pachacuti

Politicker

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

Just listen and learn and be fearless

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Listen and take notes.

Ask questions. Good ones, not dumb ones.

Meet people and remember who they are and what they do.

Find the top reps and follow them around.

Set clear expectations with your boss about performance.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Absorb all you can, make sure you're set up to shadow the successful SDRs.

Check out the academy tab here.

Also search here - there are several threads about getting started and tips and tricks that should be very helpful.

Best of luck!

Diablo

Politicker

Sr. AE

Network within the company, try to learn about the product, process, customer behaviour that can make your job easy when you are ready to dial.

SoccerandSales

Big Shot

Account Executive

Ask questions. To leadership, to top performers, cross-functionally. This is the best way for you to learn your products as well as learn how to pitch them

NotCreativeEnough

Big Shot

Professional Day Ruiner

repetition. The only way to get good at calling/emailing is to do it. a lot. Don't just do the minimum and expect to build your confidence on the phones. I always tell people 100 dials per day at a bare minimum (unless you're using something like Koncert in which case 250+ is a cake walk), until you're able to hold a solid conversation about your product.

Being an SDR is a grind. How hard you work directly correlates with how much effort you put into making dials and sending emails. But also remember its a stepping stone. Your number 1 job as an SDR is to put yourself into a position to get promoted to AE. Everything else is secondary.

SADNESSLieutenant

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Officer of ♥️

this

dreadpiratescript

Politicker

Producer

Be open to coaching, can't stress this enough. In my experience those who are skeptical to coaching dont last long. Even if it seems like an uncomfortable strategy or script. DO IT you'll be ok and better off for it!!

SADNESSLieutenant

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Officer of ♥️

this

Gasty

Notable Contributor

War Room Community Manager

- tech stack familiarity
- team introductions
- processes / cadences
- territory assignments
- current lead flow
- outbound cold calls
- combing linkedIn

try to touch upon some of everything in the list above.

All the best, savage! And welcome to the War Room @Marnel14

Marnel14

Valued Contributor

Sales Development Representative

Thank you! I’ll definitely note this!

TheIncarceration

Politicker

SDR Manager

Get your reps in and shadow top performers. SDR tactics are always evolving so try your best to keep up with what other successful SDRs are doing. Good luck!

BlueJays2591

Politicker

Federal Business Dev Director

Connect with the top BDRs and get their proven messaging/scripts. Learn use cases so you can tell a story and not just spew product features

aSaaSinator

Good Citizen

Sales Director

If the organization is any good, they will not have you only calling away. You'll have more success with a combination of calling, marketing approved emails, personal emails you can craft and re-use, video, etc. Also, always remember that they don't care about your product. Listen and focus on how you can solve a problem for them.

RandoSalesGuy

Opinionated

Try anything and everything. The minute you learn that quick objections and no's are just a playground to test new tactics, magic happens.

Chonkonaut

Valued Contributor

CSAM of Luke Warm Chowder

Drink lots of water, Gatorade, and walk while making calls. Get a really good headset, be on your feet while calling. It helps.

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

You had some great advice here for your first week. How has your first month gone?

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