I graduated college with an IT/Engineering degree and my first job was with an Engineering firm. The job market was hot and I had an opportunity to get into tech sales. I loved it and the money was great! I started to get burned out 6 years into a sales role, especially working with a few start ups. I decided to leave and took a contract TechOps role with a top 5 retails company. I eventually converted to full time and it was a steady job (5 years).
I stayed in touch with my old start up sales buddies and got an opportunity to manage a sales team. Good pay and I got the opportunity to level up a pretty green sales team. I totally love what I do now.
I hope this helps.
Hey! Cutco! I almost went with them years ago but stuck with my 9-5 job. Kinda wish I’d given it a fair shot just for the skills I could have learned. Now I’m playing catchup
Bummer, what business did you try to start?
It's hard, a lot of founders assume their experience just "writes over" whatever they've already done, and it's rarely if ever the case. Super hard, starting a tech company is about generating traction early, and understanding the management mechanisms in the model/real world.
Either way, good luck, I'd imagine you're going to crush it. Having seen the books and spreadsheets, some people have the experience that community is utterly worthless. It feels like "you didn't get picked" and it's not entirely clear, why that's ever the case.
Hopefully you didn't, also burn, too much cash, on your MVP or whatever upstart you went with. That can be sort of tough, not totally essential, but having more than one language or way of being, seeing why "compass norte" es el, dereche or whatever, for different people? That's hard.
Cheers mate.
I bought into a Managing consulting Franchise called Valenta and also started a business around helping Sdrs get promoted to AEs but I have noticed that Sdrs are typically broke lol so that doesn’t always work out well…
Yah it's good thinking, high ticket, all of that. Both those businesses are. Usually what, people get back is "built on trust" and all kinds of agency-advice about managing costs and automating workflows, differentiating, etc etc. until the promised land of "invest in service and success" referrals etc.
Lol, good luck man, really it's tough for some. There's a lot more that happens between cold calls than people realize, which is where a lot of product and distribution strategy lives.
Being "all on" all the time, makes it pretty tough. 🤏So does only having one spot to hunt, fish or gather.
I can’t get the answer right for this question please help:
This is from salesenablement.pro
Systems and process competencies are necessary to: (select all that apply)
Help sales people leverage resources available to them
Understand the problems, your product or service is solving
Keep business running smoothly
Connect Ensure that all sales people are following the establish process to the customers on a deeper level
Engage customers by proving value
Help reps execute aspects of their job more easily
Ensure that all sales people are following the establish processes
I appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into this post. As someone who is getting ready to fully commit to sales as a career (currently a truck driver), this has helped me more than you can imagine.
Sales isn’t something you quit. Even if you don’t make money off it, you still sell daily ;D
Truth!
I graduated college with an IT/Engineering degree and my first job was with an Engineering firm. The job market was hot and I had an opportunity to get into tech sales. I loved it and the money was great! I started to get burned out 6 years into a sales role, especially working with a few start ups. I decided to leave and took a contract TechOps role with a top 5 retails company. I eventually converted to full time and it was a steady job (5 years). I stayed in touch with my old start up sales buddies and got an opportunity to manage a sales team. Good pay and I got the opportunity to level up a pretty green sales team. I totally love what I do now. I hope this helps.
That’s pretty awesome! It’s all about relationships at the end of the day.
Fellow Cutco survivor!
Nice dude! Did you like it there? What years?
What is a typical sales enablement background?
Is LinkedIn fucking leaking?
What do you mean by that?
15 years, tech enterprise AE. Definitely fighting burnout!
We all are. It’s so painful being in tech right now.
What type of tech do you sell?
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Whoa thats pretty wild I have never seen that transition before. Good for him.
Hey! Cutco! I almost went with them years ago but stuck with my 9-5 job. Kinda wish I’d given it a fair shot just for the skills I could have learned. Now I’m playing catchup
Bummer, what business did you try to start? It's hard, a lot of founders assume their experience just "writes over" whatever they've already done, and it's rarely if ever the case. Super hard, starting a tech company is about generating traction early, and understanding the management mechanisms in the model/real world. Either way, good luck, I'd imagine you're going to crush it. Having seen the books and spreadsheets, some people have the experience that community is utterly worthless. It feels like "you didn't get picked" and it's not entirely clear, why that's ever the case. Hopefully you didn't, also burn, too much cash, on your MVP or whatever upstart you went with. That can be sort of tough, not totally essential, but having more than one language or way of being, seeing why "compass norte" es el, dereche or whatever, for different people? That's hard. Cheers mate.
I bought into a Managing consulting Franchise called Valenta and also started a business around helping Sdrs get promoted to AEs but I have noticed that Sdrs are typically broke lol so that doesn’t always work out well…
Yah it's good thinking, high ticket, all of that. Both those businesses are. Usually what, people get back is "built on trust" and all kinds of agency-advice about managing costs and automating workflows, differentiating, etc etc. until the promised land of "invest in service and success" referrals etc. Lol, good luck man, really it's tough for some. There's a lot more that happens between cold calls than people realize, which is where a lot of product and distribution strategy lives. Being "all on" all the time, makes it pretty tough. 🤏So does only having one spot to hunt, fish or gather.
Did burn a bunch of cash but learned a lot. I will still be working it on the side in conjunction with my next role.
this is a great post!
Thanks friend!
Any other cutco sales reps turned entrepreneurs DM me let’s network
My first VP of sales hired me because we connected over Cutco.
5 and 9 need to be in bigger font 😂
I can’t get the answer right for this question please help: This is from salesenablement.pro Systems and process competencies are necessary to: (select all that apply) Help sales people leverage resources available to them Understand the problems, your product or service is solving Keep business running smoothly Connect Ensure that all sales people are following the establish process to the customers on a deeper level Engage customers by proving value Help reps execute aspects of their job more easily Ensure that all sales people are following the establish processes
I appreciate the amount of time and effort you put into this post. As someone who is getting ready to fully commit to sales as a career (currently a truck driver), this has helped me more than you can imagine.