DustFrog

Business Development Manager

Gong? SDRs? Clouds? I'm sure at least some of you aren't in tech- so what other industries are represented here?

Sales is sales for the most part, but each industry has different nuances. This board is naturally dominated by techbros and their newfangled clouds and toks, but what other markets are you all into out there? What kind of dragons are you knights out here slaying?

For example, I'm in the steel business, mostly selling to manufacturers of equipment for the oilfield, offshore, mining, agriculture, and transportation industries. We make the world go 'round.

Let's inject some outside jargon into this place.

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poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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Hello. TechDaddy here. I am no longer a bro, I have transcended that nuance.

I've worked in CPG, SaaS, Fitness (training), Insurance, and Recreation. Every single industry has a list of terms that will confuse the hell out of outsiders. Hit us with some of yours.

DustFrog

Catalyst

Business Development Manager

Welcome Daddy 😉

Ductility, BHN, CVNs, hot rolled, API, ASME, ASTM, permit load, 41XX, BOP, GET, on and on and on!

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

☕️

I like to BOP around after I get hot rolled. My wife asked if I wanted to try ASTM and I declined...I can't risk pink eye again.

DustFrog

Catalyst

Business Development Manager

Oh yeah baby that's how we like it

CuriousFox

WR Officer

🦊

Your industry sounds very interesting! I'm not in SaaS either. I was actually going to make a post about it today, but you beat me to it. 😉

DustFrog

Catalyst

Business Development Manager

Put. The Coffee. Down! :)

funcoupons

WR Officer

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Insurance

hh456

Celebrated Contributor

sales

boo

funcoupons

WR Officer

👑

Suck it

hh456

Celebrated Contributor

sales

unfortunately that's not a part of my benefit plan design.

Justatitle

Big Shot

Account Executive

1.) I haven’t found the banter in here broey and I definitely don’t think I’m a bro, maybe I’m wrong.

2.) Corp worked in SAAS sales and that’s who he markets too so it is going to have SAAS as the majority because of that

3.) there’s a bunch of insurance, advertising and other sales professionals in here that also post about their industries quite frequently.

I love diversifying the war room and thanks for this post

TheOverTaker

Politicker

Senior Account Executive

Digital and Broadcast media savage

alecabral

Arsonist

Director - Digital Sales Transformation

I used to be in tech some time ago, but right now I work in 2 industries: cpg and enablement / training.

Incognito

WR Officer

Master of Disaster

Construction insurance and Surety Bonding

TheHypnotist

Executive

Sales Manager

Heavy equipment sales. People still put fax numbers on their business cards and I am like “WTF??”

CaneWolf

Politicker

Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract

Can you still buy fax machines?

TheHypnotist

Executive

Sales Manager

Jesus, if you can then I feel sorry for the poor bastards that are selling them. Talk about your days being numbered!

JECU

Opinionated

Account Manager / Co-Founder

When I was in channel sales for Office Depot business division, some of my accounts had customers (mainly school systems here in NC) still fax them orders that had to be re-keyed into the system daily. This was in 2020….

fuzzy

Notable Contributor

CMO (Chief Meme Officer)

Healthcare Tech (AI) Systems Integration

ButWaitTheresMore

Politicker

Senior Sales Engineer

In life sciences capital equipment sales myself - mostly selling to academic labs and biotech companies.

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

I've worked in CPG, SaaS, Fitness (training), Insurance, and Recreation. Every single industry has a list of terms that will confuse the hell out of outsiders. Hit us with some of yours.

Clashingsoulsspell

Politicker

ISR

I've worked in CPG, SaaS, Fitness (training), Insurance, and Recreation. Every single industry has a list of terms that will confuse the hell out of outsiders. Hit us with some of yours.

MR.StretchISR

Politicker

ISR

Your industry sounds very interesting! I'm not in SaaS either. I was actually going to make a post about it today, but you beat me to it.

Mr.Floaty

Politicker

BDR

Agree with everything that Mooney said. I've gone both ways over the last few years and the biggest change for me was that the startup (fintech space) I worked for had a culture where if a large enough enterprise prospect asked for a new/additional feature to our solution

Cyberjarre

Politicker

BDR

A few things that weren't really shocking but were annoying when I went from small to big was the amount of red tape around everything.

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DustFrog

Gong? SDRs? Clouds? I'm sure at least *some* of you aren't in tech- so what other industries are represented here?

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