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Which transferable skill do you mainly look for in SDRs?
Which transferable skill do you mainly look for in SDRs?
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Curiosity I feel translates more to success since that naturally leads to persistence in asking questions and being creative in finding ways to present the solution. Also brings a bit of resilience in being curious on how to do better.
There has to be a healthy mix of both. If you only have one or the other then luck will be the biggest part of success from what I've seen.
A mix of it all.
These aren’t skills. They are traits. But the answer is persistence.
Got to go with persistence
I chose persistency but these are not skills. these are more personality/character traits.
Skills are things you can build and learn, and although you may be able to get better at these things idk if you can really TEACH someone to be any of these things
Skills are things you can build and learn, and although you may be able to get better at these things idk if you can really TEACH someone to be any of these things
According to me everyone in sales should be persistent !
Chose persistence, but is that a skill?
The whole point of a BDR is to get someone's attention and book a meeting, so for me, Creativity wins. You can be persistent, but if your outreach is shit, all you will get is "Unsubscribe", "No thanks"
Hunger.
How bad do they want it.
How bad do they want it.
character then skillset
Its cold calling/emailing - so how good are they at taking rejection and just moving on
Curiosity and the ability to synthesize a 'story' out of disparate information.
BDR's really need to just get people excited to learn more. Telling thought-provoking stories then admitting not to be the expert (but can introduce you to them :) ) is the best way to do it, IMO.
BDR's really need to just get people excited to learn more. Telling thought-provoking stories then admitting not to be the expert (but can introduce you to them :) ) is the best way to do it, IMO.
For SDRs it is more about persistence. For AEs it is more about curiosity. For managers it is about focus and teaching skills.
(FYI: This is why I hate the sales career track. We promote people out of roles they are great at and put them in roles that require drastically different skills.)
(FYI: This is why I hate the sales career track. We promote people out of roles they are great at and put them in roles that require drastically different skills.)
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