Goomba

Director of Shitposts

Opinionated

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Unpopular opinion: if you’re an unattractive person in sales you have to actually be good at sales

we all know you get a +20-200% bump depending on company or product if you're ridiculously good looking.

if you're an ogre and high paid at sales consider yourself at least 10x as good as attractive people.

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Charizard

Opinionated

Business Like Things

Praying for you bro. I know you’re going through it right now. But shit aint as bad as you think it is.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

ERP Sales

So you are saying I'm ugly?

Revenue_Rambo

Politicker

Director, Revenue Enablement

The actual term in your case would be fugly

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

*pug fugly

jefe

Arsonist

🍁

Yeaaa not sure how much I agree with this. With any bump comes increased expectation.

Just being a pretty face ain't going to keep you in a seat. Especially with remote work.

FinanceEngineer

Politicker

Sr Director, sales and partnerships

Luck > connections > appearance > skill

lowhangersalesbanger

Executive

Account Executive

Are you alright?

HarryCaray

Notable Contributor

HMFIC

Sounds like you're having a hard time. Having said that, there is some truth to this. Most of our sales team is male, but we have a couple mildly attractive females on our squad. One in particular is always trying to show off her prospecting skills by showing how many LinkedIn messages she gets responses on and connection requests accepted. A guy on our team started sending the exact same messages as her just to see what kind of hits he got. Big goose egg. Can't pretend that there aren't a bunch of old dirty dogs out there who only engage with a sales rep based on looks.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

hahah this is a crazy post.

20-200% bump? what a insane percentage 😂

i have not seen someone who is a dime piece and actually suck at their job, do really well. Maybe they do better than they should but im sorry i just cant agree that looks make a 200% difference 😂

BitcoinAddict

Opinionated

Depends on who you are selling to. If it is a B2C sale? Yeah being some young hot blonde is winning you a lot of deals hence why so many of these kinds of women excel at Pharma and Med Device sales.
Tech sales which is B2B and requires lots of decision makers? I think looks matter significantly less. In fact, even less when one of the decision-makers is a not-so-attractive woman. Hard for Ryan in Engineering to explain why we are paying 150k annually for shelf-ware.

Goomba

Opinionated

Director of Shitposts

The hot person/voice typically gets those extra seconds and less ignores on top of funnel. Makes a huge difference.

The hardest part is arguably getting the at bats.

BigShrimpin

Politicker

Account executive

Depends how many people are involved in cycle. If you're selling d2d or 1:1 with single point buyers like doctors then sure but if the final DM is someone you're never even going to meet that just rubberstamps the proposal they like most its not gonna do much.

Coffee_is_for_closers

Opinionated

Product & Solutions Specialist

I would say that more attractive salespeople would have an advantage when selling face-to-face. With remote sales, it does not matter. There is some validity to the attractiveness of the sales rep and success in the pharmaceutical/medical sales field.

pirate

Big Shot

Account Executive

I haven't really met anyone ugly. Sometimes so called ogres are ridiculously funny so people love them. Sometimes people think they look good but the whole office thinks their narcissists who like themselves too much. So not so sure

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salesreptile

Opinionated

NAE III (Large Market)

Gotta format this as a green text story and then we can truly go full gooner.

-1

Major Account Executive

People with good bodies show discipline and put a lot of work in their health. Businesses see that and know they will be taken care of!

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Big Shot

-1

Enterprise Account Executive

Wow, hard disagree.