Let me give you a very profound truth - " Sales people are human too" .
What the heck? Is that so profound?
Ok, let us get one step back - To give my background, I am working as a business consultant in the Information , Media and Entertainment space and I absolutely don't have anything to do with sales.
But, I have a lot of friends who are doing sales.If you ask them , they always are so excited about their work. But , for a outsider sales looks like a dirty job. Do you really like that person who is trying to sell you a credit card? When I present a pitch , "that was very salesy", "Don't sell it to me ok?" are the kind of responses which I get!
So naturally I wanted to explore what is so exciting to a sales person which looks mundane from the outside? Can we get an insider perspective?
Why don't the sales people come forward and share their exciting experiences ? It could be the screwed up sales pitch or the ones which went very well and your boss took credit for it.
I believe you would have got the drift by now.
Here is a list of 'Day in a life of sales person' I gathered browsing. Do you want to share your experience? Please do so in the Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/SalesPersonIsHuman
http://www.abovethefoldmag.com/?q=article/day-life-sales-rep-trevor-malkoske
http://www.seltekconsultants.co.uk/candidates/interview-advice-and-tips/a-day-in-the-life/
http://www.myrbopportunity.com/2013/07/08/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-sales-representative
http://randomactsofreading.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-sales-rep-erin/
http://americancraftbeer.com/item/a-day-in-the-life-fuh-can-around-with-oskar-blues-sales-rep-brent-hodgson.html
http://www.publishingcrawl.com/2012/03/29/life-as-a-publishing-sales-rep/
Signing off , till the next post!
