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In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

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Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

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“…and you won’t like their secret” And y’all just keep scrolling through the ads for that secret that’ll explain to you what to be angry about. Some shit will never stop working.

I’ll forgive the clickbait, which could have come full circle to explain “you keep people interested”

But the whole article was so terrible that I forgive nothing and want my time back. Who upvotes this trash?

Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

#73
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That's honestly one of the best pieces of writing I've read in my life. Can't recommend it enough. Send it to all your friends. Everyone should read it.

Slate is in a rough way huh? Will your next article talk about how great st internet promotion you are?

Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

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The real secret to having a successful sales career is to work at a company that sells a market leading product. This trumps 99% of anything you can do as an individual. I have seen complete noobs have good sales careers at AWS

That's the difference between being a great salesman and having great sales. Any idiot can sell something that's in demand. It takes a genius to sell something that nobody wants. It's better to be the idiot.

Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

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> I know a good salesman when I see one. I was, briefly, the No. 1 telemarketer in the United States. Oh neat, how? > Unlike many of my less successful colleagues, I quickly learned to take yes for an answer; though we were legally required to read a long list of mandatory disclosures to all our sales, I noticed that this often broke the spell and gave people an opening to back out or “wait and ask the wife about it.…

So... the thing that made him America's top telemarketer was... illegally omitting the disclosures... which everyone was doing... but also, it made him uniquely successful because many of his colleagues didn't do it? I'm getting the strangest feeling that maybe this guy isn't done peddling bullshit?

sounds like hes setting the stage for a movie script - "wolf of wall street 2"

Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

#76

The real secret to having a successful sales career is to work at a company that sells a market leading product. This trumps 99% of anything you can do as an individual. I have seen complete noobs have good sales careers at AWS

The better the marketing, the easier the sales.

Re: In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work

#77

> I know a good salesman when I see one. I was, briefly, the No. 1 telemarketer in the United States. Oh neat, how? > Unlike many of my less successful colleagues, I quickly learned to take yes for an answer; though we were legally required to read a long list of mandatory disclosures to all our sales, I noticed that this often broke the spell and gave people an opening to back out or “wait and ask the wife about it.…

This is why sales is such a difficult medium to respect even if it's clearly a craft. There's a dance but no music.
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