Reggs
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Hello friends,
My whole career has been in marketing. I have a degree in it and I'm good at it. This was mostly in the capacity of being a Marketing Manager and Marketing Director. It was always direct marketing too, meaning my performance was based on specific KPIs.
I had a change when I got into consulting. Suddenly I was speaking with people on the phone all day long. Clients just really liked me, and coworkers said I was great at talking with clients, and I upsold them more than anyone else, and the only people I'd talk to were C level or Directors.
Now that I have more confidence in my ability to be charming, informative, and persuasive, I really think I would do well in sales, and I would like to consider trying it out.
There are many unknowns to me. I'm 33 and don't want to do this and find myself working in a boiler room cold calling anyone, I don't want to start off at the bottom of the ladder shoulder to shoulder with kids who just got out of college. Can this be done? Can I reply to these job advertisements with no sales experience and expect this to go anywhere?
My whole career has been in marketing. I have a degree in it and I'm good at it. This was mostly in the capacity of being a Marketing Manager and Marketing Director. It was always direct marketing too, meaning my performance was based on specific KPIs.
I had a change when I got into consulting. Suddenly I was speaking with people on the phone all day long. Clients just really liked me, and coworkers said I was great at talking with clients, and I upsold them more than anyone else, and the only people I'd talk to were C level or Directors.
Now that I have more confidence in my ability to be charming, informative, and persuasive, I really think I would do well in sales, and I would like to consider trying it out.
There are many unknowns to me. I'm 33 and don't want to do this and find myself working in a boiler room cold calling anyone, I don't want to start off at the bottom of the ladder shoulder to shoulder with kids who just got out of college. Can this be done? Can I reply to these job advertisements with no sales experience and expect this to go anywhere?