The Sales Profession is Crazy!

Demoted

Demoted Productions

Comedy, Business, Careers

4.8 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Is going into the sales profession a worthwhile career move? If you can handle the stress and rejection… maybe. Ross reveals the unmitigated truth of a career in sales, explaining the struggle of hitting quota quarter after quarter, the grind of cold prospecting, and the joy of closing a deal. Natalie discusses how her impression of sales and salespeople has evolved since working with Ross and overseeing sales motions for her own startup. You’ll hear how even if you’re not in a sales role, the soft skill of selling can be applied throughout your career and life. Stay tuned for an unhinged sales cold call recording, tips on how to make work feels more like a vacation, and an exclusive sample of Natalie’s shower singing skills.

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0:00.0	So is the sales profession as terrible as it sounds?
0:03.8	Let me just say there is no other profession where you are literally just a number.
0:08.4	People will say terrible things to you.
0:10.7	That is my worst nightmare.
0:13.0	So how much money can you make if you stick it out in sales?
0:15.9	If you are really, really good, millions of dollars.
0:19.1	Millions.
0:19.8	Millions of dollars, yes.
0:20.9	There is nothing on this earth, not even sex, that is quite like closing a deal.
0:25.8	Would you go back to sales?
0:27.6	Oof.
0:28.5	I mean...
0:33.6	Demoted. Welcome to demoted. Good to have everyone here. Summertime sadness. That's what we're doing today. We're not talking Lana Del Rey. No. We're talking the lull of the sales cycle. Yep. Yep. We're talking sales today. Right. I mean, I'm going to be interviewing you for most of
0:55.7	this episode. Yeah. We've got a lot of sales motorheads here. Yeah, for sure. Someone recently stopped
1:01.4	me at the airport and she was like, I'm like, oh my God, it's a corporate Natalie fan. Okay. Hang on. No,
1:05.7	she said, I'm a huge motorhead. That's so sick. I was like, thank you so much. You made my day. I love her.
1:11.6	That's, I love her. I don't know who she is, but I love her. When you like the pod,
1:15.1	you must love me. Yeah. Right. Because that's, that's, that's core. This is us. See us at our
1:19.8	worst. See us at our worst. Our best. I feel like, you should pull out a little and just be like, give that. Put it on our license. Yeah. True motorhead
1:28.5	stickers. I think that's in the cards. So we're going to kick it off with a salacious corporate
1:34.1	confession. We want to dive right in. I know you heard some highlights, some soundbites of what this
1:39.3	episode is going to entail. But let's get into this corporate confession here. I will read it.
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