OldDogNewTricks

Sales guy

What was the first product you sold? Were you any good?

First product i sold was nightclub event and festival tickets for my own events company. I did ok, as long as i covered rent i was happy chasing girls and partying.

First product i sold for someone else was event production. I was terrible... mainly due to the partying overlapped these 2 gigs...

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SaaSsy

Politicker

Lemonade as a 10 yr old- absolutely crushed 💸💸💸

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Niiiiice @SaaSsy 💵🤘

TheNegotiator

Arsonist

VP of Sales

Haha, give us the numbers

fuzzy

Notable Contributor

CMO (Chief Meme Officer)

Candy bars. #1 in the school 3 years in a row. I got that talking globe. Trip to McD’s in a limo. The whole encyclopedia

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

BOOYA! smashed it, @fuzzy

alecabral

Arsonist

Director - Digital Sales Transformation

Microsoft Databases. I sucked at the beginning, big time!

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Not exactly a sexy product to sell first up!

alecabral

Arsonist

Director - Digital Sales Transformation

It wasn’t, and it was the early 2000 so IT people were not hot and fun back then. They were pretty much trolls that hated sales people. Yay me!

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

Were/are they ever hot?

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

@Stratifyz 😂 NEGATIVE

alecabral

Arsonist

Director - Digital Sales Transformation

Google "hot nerd" and see for yourself

dave1

Politicker

SDR

AI for banking, gov, and schools. It was a tough one but It taught me a lot about C-suite prospecting.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Handy skill to pick up in your first sales gig @dave1

someoneinsales

Tycoon

Director of Sales

Crowdsourcing solution for consumer goods. Thought it was going to be easy. Was terrible. I sucked. First real job. Left 7 months later to get into security

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Sounds mega vague... crowdsourcing for consumer goods... Who were your prospects? Businesses? Or consumers?

someoneinsales

Tycoon

Director of Sales

Prospects were sales leaders for products that could be stocked at local grocery stores. The solution was sending surveys to the crowdsource to ensure merchandise was put in the spot it was suppose to.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Ahhh gotcha @Mooney

EscoChico

Catalyst

Sales Representative

Furniture. Retail sucks, I should've taken the job more serious maybe would have done decent. I sucked, hated the hours and no weekends off.

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

My heart goes out to the retail folks. After being in SaaS, it’s eye opening for the better.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Oh snap thats right, i worked retail (selling CDs/DVDs in a Virgin Music store) before i sold event tickets. I sucked, was always hungover and not wanting to approach people.

Thanks for the reminder @EscoChico

EscoChico

Catalyst

Sales Representative

I was hungover as well. haha...

RampagingDog

Politicker

Recruitment Consultant

Window wash, pressure wash, gutter cleaning services. I helped the owner, a friend of mine, start from the ground up. I mean, we went from our first booking to requiring two trucks and crews to keep up in about 6 months. I worked there 10 months, trained my replacement and left. It was my first sales job, hourly pay, and I realized I had the bug for this and could make much more in a commission based role.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Love it - nice work @RampagingDog

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

Did you get some equity? Sounds like you killed it to me.

RampagingDog

Politicker

Recruitment Consultant

Not a lick. He wanted to salary me and have me run it as his GM. Not a great fit for a salesman.

Santipodero

Politicker

Sanix

The first product I sold was when I was 13 years old and they were a household cleaning producer

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

So fresh, so clean 👌😜 nice work building those closing chops so young, @Santipodero

TheNegotiator

Arsonist

VP of Sales

Car rentals at the most popular tourist airport in our country. Because of the city’s popularity, pricing was already very high, so it wasn’t the easiest, but it was relatively easy. I was ‘pretty good’ when I started. Sales was right for my personality. By the time I left I was a rockstar. Taught me so much about buyer psychology, negotiation, trust and value-building. Put me through school too. Kind of a greasy sale tbh, but damn it was fun and it was good money for a 19yo.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Awesome story @TheNegotiator!

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

It’s sad because I feel like the sales stigma comes from dealing with car folks 😂

LordBusiness

Politicker

Chief Revenue Officer

Recruitment ads. I wouldn’t say “good” but I followed the process’s given to me by leadership, sold my very first meeting.

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

Hittin dingers out the gate!

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Whoa - thats an awesome start!

ColdCallHotCoffee

Politicker

TSR

Welding equipment & supplies. Pretty average. Moved on from that job and realized I had learned so much! Very happy I moved on though.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

I did 5 years in the wedding industry, learnt heaps (but very happy to never again talk of wedding season, brides, grooms, bomboniere bah!)

Ozz

Politicker

Account Executive

Sold runescape gold - make some cash until some kid didn't pay up. I threatened him and he told the school then I got called to the principles office. Kid was a little bitch for not paying up.

ColdCallHotCoffee

Politicker

TSR

Did Runescape adequately prepare you for a career in sales? And yeah bro, what a little bitch.

Ozz

Politicker

Account Executive

Haha, no but it made me learn not to trust people unless I get paid upfront. Great lesson when I was young.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

A good lesson to learn young!

Stratifyz

Big Shot

Account Executive

Sold logistics management to non profits - NEVER again. I had a hard time connecting with the personas.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Selling anything to non profits can be tough

HereComesTheSales

Account Manager II

CutCo, baby! Got me right out of high school. What a glorious summer. Hawking those kives door to door prepared me to slay later on in life.

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

D2D will hone those prospecting muscles! Amazing experience to build from

Panda4489

Politicker

Head of Some Shit

Personal training.
Crushed it!! At 23 freshly graduated college. On man I was in heaven.

GDO

Politicker

BDM

Payment services. Yeah was always way above quota. (Although that does not mean I was any good 😅)

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Nice distinction there @GDO

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

Candy bars. #1 in the school 3 years in a row. I got that talking globe. Trip to McD’s in a limo. The whole encyclopedia

desperado

Politicker

Head of Sales

Mitsubishi’s and Hyundai’s. I worked for 3 months and sold 33 cars. I wasn’t the worst on the floor but I certainly wasn’t the best.

PhillySales

Opinionated

Director of Inside Sales

Vitamins and supplements at GNC, I was pretty good!

OldDogNewTricks

Opinionated

Sales guy

Nice work @PhillySales

willyhndz3

Fire Starter

Account Executive

Yelp - I became a boss at it lol

Error32

Politicker

ISR

Had a similar situation a couple years ago. Standard quarterly quota was $500k. We happen to get a massive deal (3.8 million) the year before. Management took this as a sign that we could find similar sized deal on the reg and set our quota at 4.4million.

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