Have you grown to become a buyer after a long time selling? Did you impression of the sales community change?

Do you also now think we suck?
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antiASKHOLE
Tycoon
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Bravado's Resident Asshole
I don’t care to deal with salespeople. Or at least the over aggressive Betas
jefe
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A staggering amount of them just absolutely SUCK and don't put the bare minimum of effort in to understand who they're reaching out to or actually book a meeting.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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But we are fabulous 🔥
jefe
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You know it. 💅
Pachacuti
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
I hate dealing with sales people.

Seriously.

I often do my homework before buying and the sales person simply exists to take my order.

I know too many tricks of the trade to put up with salesman crap.
SoccerandSales
Big Shot
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Account Executive
Not even close to being in a position to buy anything at the moment (nor do I really want to) but this is what I tend to hear from Sales buyers
Kosta_Konfucius
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Sales Rep
Is this mostly from sales people in personal life like buying a car, realtor, etc or business
Pachacuti
Politicker
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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy
Even B2B people. I know most of the tricks, motivators, etc I don’t have time to deal with it all.
northstar
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VP
@Pachacuti how would you then describe an ideal salesperson for a buyer like you
Rallier
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SDR Manager and Consultant
I hate the terrible outreach calls and emails. 95% of it is just straight up spam.

I hate dealing with bad salespeople, and my god there are so many of them out there. I like working with good salespeople.
Gasty
Notable Contributor
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War Room Community Manager
I can now catch a cold call from the very 1st second of silence (or the chap breathing hard into the phone). Does that count?
northstar
Valued Contributor
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VP
Oh well 😀
JustGonnaSendIt
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Burn Towns, Get Money
I mean, we're all buyers right? Maybe not corporate buyers... but we buy: Cars, houses, clothes, insurance, etc...

I've found that being in sales has reduced my tolerance for BS tactics, but overall made me a much easier sale.

Come at me with a clean deal that meets my needs and makes it easy, and I'll buy from you and tell all my friends.
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As a sales professional, did you think through and design your career path, or were you thrown in and now you're just winging it?

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Should sales people take MBA to become better at selling? Any thoughts?

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Has massive growth ever led to mental breakdown? I have been hustling since 17 years old chasing to strive for success doing odd jobs and unintentionally ended up with Edtech K12 Sales as my first official sales job - A toxic culture with no employee respect eventually me to switch after 18 months. Since reps in Edtech are highly valued, had no option but to continue in Edtech sales. This time it was higher education segment, things looked good in the first few month but slowly it started adapting methodologies like the old Edtech since the management was changed. I decided to move out and switch to B2B SaaS. After 13 months of learning & success, my aspirations weren’t matching with the growth vision shared by my manager and ended up being desperate to switch. Got to a AM-Inside Sales role with a 50% hike. Guess what? It led to my mental break down since the culture is pathetic. In entire journey, all challenges never affected my performance but l am losing the spark to glow and hustle eventually. While I plan to switch, a token of guilt is still alive. The experiences have made me far better and strong as a BDR but blank about the next steps in my career. Thanks for reading. Do share your thoughts.

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