Pros and Cons of Working In Sales - The Truth
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00:00 Pros and Cons of Working In Sales - The Truth
00:47 Pros of Working In Sales
06:42 Cons of Working In Sales
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The Pros of Working in Sales Include:
You don't need any sales or working experience to get started.
You potentially can earn a high salary plus high commissions.
Sales is an enjoyable career if you like working with people.
The job market will always be hiring good salespeople.
The Cons of Working in Sales Include:
High responsibility and pressure
You'll have to deal with rejection regularly
It may be difficult to succeed if you don't believe in your product or service.
Not all sales job are created equal
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Pros of Working in Sales
1. You Don't Need Experience | 1:04
2. Potential High Commission | 2:12
3. Can Be Enjoyable | 3:20
4. Will Always Be Demand | 4:18
Cons of Working in Sales
1. Lots of Responsibility | 6:56
2. Lots of Rejection | 8:20
3. Difficult to Succeed | 9:05
4. Not All Sales Jobs are Equal | 10:34
I am a tech sales and For me the pros are :
1. It has a lot of opportunities in the future
2.financially rewarding
3. Getting to meet important people (expand networking)
4. Travel to new places (the good & bad one)
5. At the same time automatically develop my other skills (communicating, entrepreneurship, negotiation,etc)
The Cons are :
1. Pressure (target and time)
2. Rejection over and over
3. Client disappear for no reason (ghosting)
4. Often times its hard to reach out to the decision maker level
But overall for me i like the job and proud of it.
Question to Patrick, how do you usually handle rejection so it would not make you frustrated?
One thing to mention here from a sales perspective. ItÂŽs not just the numbers you make, itÂŽs also the Quota (target revenue) the company wants you to achieve. So sometimes it also depends on the numbers your manager wants you to achieve that determines how good you perform. If heÂŽs a bad leader, the numbers are not realistic and you will underpferform. This is also an easy way to cut your wage if he doesnÂŽt like you or got some personal problem with you.
I love Patrick Dang, period.
Thanks man
I've binged a dozen of your videos, and you provide honest, insightful, and actionable advice. Keep up the great work!
I have learned so many things from your videos, Thanks man. I am an introvert so I find difficult to communicate with people and I thought that I can never be good at sales but your videos proved me wrong and I am doing pretty good now and I keep improving myself once again thanks man keep up the good work.
Itâs all in the mind. Keep it up!
P Dang, youre the man. Keeping it real, i love it
Tomorrow i am having my interview... I have seen all your videos and all your stuff is very informative and motivative. I love all your videos as it is very clear , concise and easily understandable.
Thank you
Thanks for doing this. About to start my first sales job and watching your videos are helping.
Thanks for the great video and explaining the different angles and feelings, I appreciate it!
Hey Patrick, I am glad I found your channel. I am in the exact position you have been. Just finished university and looking for a SDR job in a start up. Your content is great and helps me a lot. Keep it up! Greetings from Berlin
Thatâs awesome man. Wishing you the best of luck on your new sales career.
Love this video. Thanks for being real
Congrats on 100k subscribers, Dang!
Your channel is GOLD! Thank u
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video and very insightful
Thank You đ Helps a lot đ
Great unintentional advice for this small business owner. Youâre inspiring me to become a better leader.
Great to hear!
Oh I remember CUTCO all right. My first sales job as well.
Liked it. Thank u!
love this!
Good info, thanks
Your videos are really good đ„đ„đ„đ„
I love content, very effective. Could you please do a video about how to start sales conversation with known people such as friends(close or far) through chat since most of the millenials prefer to chat on multiple platforms and are not thrown away with sudden calls. Been really struggling with this.
i see patrick's video i automatically hit like đ
dude your videos are killer thank you so much. you are the absolute G!
Such a brilliant video! You deserve much more views...Good luck!
Thank you so much!
These are all good points. You live and learn, is the saying. Thank you for reminding me of not all things are created equal. Lots of value in this video for anyone looking to get into sales.
Thanks for watching.
Good video Patrick
Gold Gold Gold đ„đ„đ„
That knife selling Job was CutCo. I walked out of the interview as soon as the manager pulled out the knifes. They never tell you what you are selling until you get there
Itâs kitchen cultury but people I sold to called me the knife guy đđ
Iâm starting my sales job soon and Iâve been watching all your videos, thank you!
Glad itâs helping!
Just started working trainee sales development rep and so far I'm learning but there is a lot of info to take in and understand in a short amount of time which sometime can make you feel a little discouraging to continue with the process but hey it's my first job and I am sure going to give it my best shot đ
@@faiomar4010 how did it go?
Why do successful people in Sales LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to help other people get into & be successful in Sales? Itâs the strangest industry Iâve ever studied. đ Human Services, Marketing, Healthcare, I.T. Non Profits, sectors donât give a care if you get into their industry or not. Whatâs up with this mindset? I have an idea but Iâd like to hear your đ thoughts.
Good point! Iâve never realized this but itâs true
Because they are selling courses, guides, they mentoring service, etc. They are selling you the âselling industryâ.
Great video! I currently received an offer for a position in High End Appliances, and it is commission only after a year of base pay. I currently work in Technical Support. This would be a crazy shift in focus. Do you recommend staying away from commission only?
Lol, we all got hit up by that "knife company" at one point đ
I worked for cutco and it was hell. My manager was pushy and told me to lie to people and I just couldn't do that. Worked there for a few months but had to get out
Dang Patrick!
Patrick , what's your view on commission only remuneration
Is that a polished concrete or micro-cement floor? Very Nice!
New sub
Haha. I want to sell the kitchen knives.
I don't know anything about software but kitchen knives. Mmm. Love a nice blade đ
what books do you recommend?
Great content. Im guessing Mark Cuban is an influence of yours.
You can take responsibility of your actions and try your hardest to improve your game.If people arenât wanting to buy. Itâs not your fault
Do you have any advice for me, who has an interview for Car Sales?
How does commission work fir SDR?
I have a doubt which technical level is required to be good working in IT sales ? For instance if you do not know programming is possible working in IT sales ? Thanks and congratulations for your videos!
Yeah, you don't have to know how to program to work in tech sales. You will have to have a fundamental understanding of how tech works, but it's not necessary to actually be able how to code. Plenty of sales reps selling into Fortune 500 companies don't know how to code. But they're good at understanding and explaining how things work from a high level.
Would anyone advice SDR with Kandji, Apple Mobile Device Management company???
Company selling knives... is it Vector Marketing?
Yes
Exactly. Vector marketing and Cutco! đ I went through the training up until the point where they were like Buy this kit and ask your family. đ
It sucks cuz they asked a bunch of broke people/college students who don't know anyone who can even afford to buy their butter knife, and insisted to only go through people we knew. đ
Great content! Would be amazing if you talk about how to build a kick ass sales process (pipeline). Blessings! Keep it up. đ
Nice idea, I'll see what we can do!
@@patrickdang Awesome brother.
For what degree did you go to college/university?
What would you say/recommend about taking my first sales job in a 100% commission based role? đ
Honestly I wouldn't. Because as a first job, going 100% commission is kinda hard because all your income is purely on yourself
Can you negotiate your base pay at an entry level position? Because if I start at a lower base pay, every promotion/salary increase is going to be based on my current salary
Yeah it's possible, but you need to come prepared with an explanation on why you deserve a higher salary
Agree Patrick, i think it the low barriers to entry leads to lots of "bad" sales peoples. The ones that commit to development will end up on top of their niche.
I remember CUTCOđđ€Šđ»ââïž
Thanks for watching.
Am scheduled for a sales interview for a radio station but I don't have any experience. What should I watch out for kindly.
I have a lot of videos about how to get into sales without experience. Check them out on my channel.
A Solar Company sales rep position would probably be a good fit right?
Although not many people can buy cause they dont own a home, but worth cause one sale could be worth a decent chunk.
At least in my perspective
Is it knocking doors? Thatâs going too build you sales skills really fast.
@@kylekanooth2677 yea door to door
Whats better base salary plus commission or commission only
Base. U need security
You went on an interview for cotco knife? đ€Ł
Set a reminder â€
Nice
@@patrickdang your channels contents are really helpfull.. i wish you & your channel all the love & blessing from my heart..
You deserve alot of subscribers.. bring more & more contents bro â€
I I have some very interesting data Iâd love to share with you sometime
Lol I know the company that you mentioned wasnât worth your time. I actually had the same experience and reaction lol
I'm studying sales but I don't know if I should continue because I feel there isn't a real purpose in that job beside making money. I mean you have to do everything to sale your product even If that mean being dishonest or kind of hypocrite because you have to act like you care about your client when all you care about is to sale to reach your quotas... Do you think I should change my career?
If you focus on finding the best products/services to sell, then you shouldn't worry about ethics. It's not really about switching your career, maybe you just need to switch up what you're selling. Best of luck!
Sales can definitely be automated. There is already evidence of sales jobs getting eliminated due to self service web forms and other artificial intelligence programs for example. If anything, the delivery people will just expand their roles to have a bit of a sales function combined with technology while they pure sales jobs will go awya.
Maybe. I do consumer sales and you need to high pressure close people. Don't see robots being able to pull that off anytime soon
@@Yawarrior You'd be surprised at the state of AI now. In fact an AI robot can evaluate the personality traits of the customer much faster and more accurately apply the correct amount of pressure, facts, examples etc to close the sale than a human can.
@@kayflip2233 where can I find such examples? Would like to see that in action and judge for myself
You either sell good quality or you sell good price - make that clear to customers- donât feel bad
What if your product is rubbish? Overpriced software that's glitchy?
Haha cutco!
Vector marketing lol
Cutco
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Cutco knives hahaha
Just say Cutco
I know what knife company that is xD ⊠been in that interview meeting years ago
Glad I didnât do it lol
hahah
I see you were cutting around the co. name of that knife sales job đ I may have ran into the same company. The name may be hidden in this comment somewhere
Has he been alive long enough to speak with enough authority and experience to merit a certain amount of credibility?
What metric do you want to measure someone elseâs level of experience in something?
@@kolemarren8211 Most people use TIME as the measure. Go look at any job posting and it will mostly likely indicate the numbers of years of experience that are required. Who does not know this?
@@christophertracy2807 time doesnât equate to expertise. Years spent doing something poorly doesnât make you an expert, hahaha.
Results. Are a better metric than timeâŠ.
Yeah, Iâve seen the job postings that require an unnecessary amount of years of experience for entry level jobs.
This is the age of the internet. Information is at everyoneâs finger tips and you can educate yourself quite quickly and easily on basically anything.
Academic education doesnât hold the same value as real life experience either⊠but, Iâm not going to get into that.
Sales ain't for me