For those of you who have successfully landed a sales job with no prior experience, what was it that got you the job? Was there anything specific you put on your resume that grabbed their attention? Use of cover letter?

I’m looking to start a sales career in HVAC and I’ve applied to a few places to no avail. Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you in advance for taking the time to participate in this conversation.

EDIT: For more context, the only experience I have in sales and customer relations is that I’ve worked as a delivery driver for a furniture company and I have 3 years of being in a MLM with a group of 3/18. I recently walked into a HVAC shop and asked to speak with the sales manager. Told him my experience and he said the MLM I was apart of was a scam. He still asked me for my name and number and said they’ll be hiring for the comfort advisor position in 2 weeks. Should I even be bringing up my experience with my old MLM?

Hi everyone, I’m really interested in working a remote sales job. I have no experience in sales, however, I have had much experience in customer service roles, so I am really great at dealing with customers. I will be finishing my degree in early December.

I have a couple of questions I’m hoping you guys can help me out with:

• Can I work a remote sales job with no sales experience?

• What is the best way to find a remote sales job?

I have also heard from some people that I follow that businesses look to hire sales reps with no experience in sales. This is so the business can train them the way that they want to, and they’re not stuck in their old ways. If this is true, where can I find businesses like this?

Thank you so much in advance for your help!

I was recently let go of my director level application support role. I have a tech background, but can also talk to strangers like a normal person and give presentations.

I like the idea of commission and I’m looking into sales roles. I realize I’ll have to pretty much start at the bottom, but are there any roles that could get to 100k or more?

I have been job searching for a while and all the jobs I see are accounting/tax or insurance sales jobs that you need to pay an arm and a leg for getting licensed.

I'm not opposed to investing in a license once I know I'm good at something or like some so much to build on it. Thank you 😊

I have over 7 years in tech sales but took a 2 year hiatus to automate my business. Now looking to get back into sales but would like it to be remote. Is it going to be insanely challenging to find a remote sales job? Does anyone have recommendations for finding one?

I'm currently exploring remote opportunities and would really appreciate any help or leads you can offer!

I always see these ads all over the internet saying “high ticket sales closer…” and vids on the YouTube/Google algorithm but I can’t seem to find any legitimate jobs out there.

I was invited to a couple of face book groups and even seen some on indeed and they’re always scams.

They’re always sales jobs about selling a course that teaches sales and the person who reaches out to you is literally selling you a sales course but lied to you that the interview is something else.

So where in the world does a real life salesman like myself with actual experience and a Uni degree find a legitimate remote high ticket sales role?

Something that is a legit product not some bs course.

Becuase all the ones on the internet are a joke.

I got a job offer for a sales position that is fully remote. I am more than likely going to take this offer. I currently work an in office sales job Monday through Friday. 40+ hours a week. I really want a remote job because I feel like I would actually be more productive working from home. I think being in the office is kinda distracting in my opinion.

My question is has anyone gone from office work to fully remote and if so how did you handle it and how did you stay motivated?

I have went from Store Rep to Field Sales, i'd like my next position to be remote. Where would I find these jobs?

TL;DR: After relocating and applying to 1,200+ jobs with no luck, I’m finding that many remote roles still prefer candidates close to the office. Is it still feasible to land a fully remote tech sales job in this market?

I’ve spent my entire career in SaaS tech sales, but after being laid off from my last role, I took some time to travel. Now that I’m back and actively job hunting, it’s been incredibly tough to land a new position. I’ve also relocated to a new city, and I’m finding that many roles in the Northeast (Toronto, Montreal) are refusing to hire remotely out of province.

In the last few months, I’ve applied to over 1,200 jobs and interviewed with at least 20 different companies, but I haven’t received any offers. The main feedback I’ve received is that they went with candidates who had internal referrals or were closer to the main office.

Is it still possible to land a fully remote job in this market? It seems like a lot of roles are listed as hybrid or remote, but still prefer candidates to be close to the office.

Howdy everyone! I wanted to share my experience with remote sales because it massively changed my life for the better and figured I'd share my experience as well as tips if this is something you're looking to consider as a remote job.

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Before I Started

Before I started working from home in sales, I worked for t-mobile for 3 years, and before that I worked with Sprint for 2 years before they merged into t-mobile. I had at that point 100% customer service experience, making 2.6k/m after tax + benefits. Honestly thought I was going to retire there. 2022 came around and t-mobile made a lot of changes that actually ended up hurting my bonuses I'd normally get from selling phones and adding lines. Dropped as low as 1.9k/m. To me, at that time, was was a big pay drop. A close friend of mine, got even more screwed with those changes. He went from making 3.3k/m down to 2.1k/m after the changes. It was rough but honestly, was prepared to keep working there. My friend, however, did not.

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How I Started

My friend took all his PTO and took 4 weeks off. He hit me up 2 weeks after he "left" saying he got a job as a remote closer. After he received his first paycheck, which was around 10k, he quit t-mobile at the drop of a hat. He went through a program he paid 10k for to get training, interviews, and placements. Worked for him because he was also a retired cop so he had money to put into something like that, I didn't. So shopping around, I ran into a program called 7 Figure Sales Academy, I booked a call with them, told them I had someone doing this thing making good money, but could not afford the 10k for everything (NOTE: This is not the company my friend went with). They set me up with 3 monthly payments of 1k for a total of 3k for just training. I talked with my misses, and decided it was worth it.

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Starting the Process

So the training was great, learned a lot of sales skills, met some really nice people during group training sessions, was pumped to try out being a salesman after I finished the course in 4 weeks! HOWEVER, I struggled to get jobs. Some of them on linkedin were scams, some of them wanted me to already have closing experience, and just 2 months of no responses. I felt like no one wanted a guy with 0 sales experience, even if I had training.

My friend, who was consistently making 14k/m at his remote job, told me to give the company he went through a shot. Now I was 3k in the hole with nothing to show for it but seeing his success, I felt like I might as well since I already got this far. Reached out to the company he worked with [Elite Closers], agreed to pay 1k down, 500/m until I paid off 9.8k total. I was able to get the vetting/training done in 4 weeks, and after that I was able to do my first interview on my 5th week. I was hired the following Monday! Now at that point I was 4.5k invested, nothing to show for it but powered through.

I was placed with a company called Michael Blank, who does multi-family real estate syndication/masterminds. First month, made 7k but hell yea, 3x better than what I was making before. I quit my job at t-mobile, went full time my second month with them, made 14.2k my second month, and paid off everything I owed to Elite Closers.

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Now

a year and 3 months later, I'm making 23k/m on average with my current offer. I'm no longer working for Michael Blank but 3 months ago, a lead generation company reached out to me through my coach at Elite Closers, and offered me higher commission so I took it. I only take, maybe 29 calls a week (I work 40 hours, each call being 1 hour long, but some people don't show or cancel). People book around my schedule and I can work anywhere I want. I've even taken sales calls on a lake while fishing. I'm so comfortable here and it's something I never thought I'd be doing, let alone from home.

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Things you should know/Tips

As far as remote is concerned, this is easy work, you're taking calls at home or where-ever you want, people are booking around your schedule, and as long as you're performing, there's no such thing as PTO, time off, sick leave, or vacation time. However, for this to work, the sales aspect is difficult, at least to me. Here's some things, from my experience, you should know before considering this:

• This is NOT for everyone. High ticket sales without experience or training, can be incredibly difficult. Sure, the $$$ is there, but if it's not something you 100% want to make a career out of and you don't have that "sales grind" mindset, this will be a very uphill battle. Especially if you want to do Business to Business sales like I'm doing now, it's a slog to get through, but it pays well.

• Without direct referrals, prior remote sales experience, or a service/agency to vouch for you, getting into remote closing high-ticket sales is damn near impossible. You're fighting for a remote position, which everyone wants, for decent pay, which everyone wants, in sales, which a lot of people already have the skills to do. That might be different from person to person, but I needed to pay for job placements and security through Elite Closers. Without them, I felt like there was nothing I could do.

• You can apply for jobs through Linkedin (I just typed in 'Remote Closer' in the search bar, and a lot of jobs pulled up) or even Indeed, but there are some offers that are scams. On top of that, unless you do your research, the commission they offer, might not actually be what they pay out. So if you do look for these jobs, definitely pull up research on the company before pulling the trigger with them.

• It's 100% remote so there's no hybrid, it's 100% commission base unless you find a company that's willing to offer salary, and it's still technically a part time/full time job. If all 3 of those things work for you, you'll be fine.

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If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask below! Keep the comments civil!!! I know some people feel strongly against sales or even the way I went about getting a remote sales job, but it worked for me. I want to help clear up some confusion about this topic and help people make a more educated decision on if remote sales or going through an agency like I did, is worth it for you.

I'm planning on relocating from the US to a cheaper country where I'd only need a few thousand per month to live a very comfortable lifestyle. I'd like to leverage my three years of retail sales experience to find a remote role, ideally something with flexible scheduling and relatively low working hours, which doesn't sound like an egregious ask considering the low salary range I'm aiming for. Of course, I'd also need a job that will allow me to freely work outside the country.

Any advice on where I should be looking for something like this would be appreciated.

Im 26 from California but living abroad in Brazil. My last job was in 2020 working on a crab boat fishing crabs as a deckhand and due to that lifestyle I managed to save up lots of money after COVID. I had some success in the stock market too, and I decided to move abroad and travel South America and eventually settled in Brazil where Ive been for about a year and a half now.

Ive decided that I want to go the digital nomad route in life, and I have been recommended to get into a SDR Role by many DN Friends Ive made while abroad. I looked into it and decided this is what I want to do as a career path. My plan is to start as an entry level SDR working remotely and become an AE in 1-2 years.

Im going to start applying for jobs this week, but I have a really bad feeling about my resume. My last official job was 2 years ago. Before that I was working some pretty random minimum wage restaurant jobs here and there, with Uber and Lyft being the most consistent of them all. My resume wont look attractive at all, even for an entry level job. I also have a recent 2-3 year gap of no employment history as Ive been traveling with money I saved and trading stocks.

The past two years traveling Ive managed to trade stocks successfully to maintain a living, but this is on my own accord and its not a "real job" by any means. Its also not a very stable lifestyle.

Im 26 now, with a more mature mindset on settling down into a career now, I have a nice apartment here in Brazil, I have a reliable macbook and WIFI connection. I have the ambition to jump into this role and see where it takes me. I just lack the resume history.

Im not sure how to proceed with this? How do I sell myself as a reliable employee with a bad resume? Should I include all my jobs on the resume? Should I just put Uber as my work history. None of my jobs are relevant to the SDR role as well. Im kind of banking on my own personality and ambition and people skills at this point to land this job. Im thinking about just putting Uber as my work history for the past 5 years to simplify the resume instead of adding irrelevant restaurant work history and monthly construction gigs here and there, which looks bad. Not to mention I lost a lot of my boss's phone numbers.

Ideally I understand this is the hardest part of the journey, landing a remote job with no experience and with a questionable resume. But I know if given the chance, and after a year or two, I will suddenly become an attractive employee in this field with the experience.

Hello salespeople of reddit, I recently graduated from high school and I want to try and get into sales because I found out that you can work from home, which would be perfect for my circumstances. Where do I start? I’m looking to apply for remote sales representative jobs and have begun searching on Indeed. I am looking for advice on how to proceed and if my expectations are realistic. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have tons of experience in sales. SDR to AE to Manager to Director. Seems like linkedin is dead and indeed is full of scams and mlm's. Most of my network was in tech and its gone bust. Just wondering what you guys are doing to find new sales positions?

I currently work in a remote sales jobs and love it. The money is great and the hours are flexible.

I landed this opportunity through chance a bit and I had sales experience through my own business.

The reason I ask this question is because I currently run a side business which my girlfriend is a full time employee of. The business sucks and we lose money every month, but it is my gfs full time job so it's going to be a tough conversation but I want to kill the business. It costs me money and takes up far too much time plus adds enormous stress to my life.

(TLDR) So to cut long story short, I would like to help my girlfriend start a career in remote sales but have no idea how I'm meant to do that.

How did you get into remote sales or even your first sales gig?

Hey guys, are there any remote sales jobs that pay a pretty decent amount but you get to do the full sales cycle as well as have pretty high OTE? Like a rare sales job that you can start off as an AE?
Background:
Currently an SDR making $40K base + on track for $55-$60K OTE in the SaaS space. All inbound leads, marketing team is on point so instead of cold-calling they have us prospect using emails, ads, videos, blogs, etc. 6 months in currently, another 6 months will be promoted to SMB AE (historical path + talked to VP). Product is software that people keep until it dies, so cold-calling is literally a waste of time (company literally tell us to not waste our time doing this) so we just wait for people's software to break or competitors support team pisses them off enough to switch.
Pros : I've achieved quota every month (thanks marketing!), I've got to do demos and close few accounts (from discovery to closed-won but don't get commission on the closed), I get to dabble in marketing (as described above). Some weeks I work only 2-3 hours a day and hit quota for that week.
Cons: I don't have a passion for this specific industry especially the tech side, salary is very limited after getting promoted to SMB AE, feels like 0 sales skills are being developed as marketing is hard-carrying. Product is pretty cheap ($100-$1000) so if I were to get promoted I wouldn't make much more than I was as an SDR ($50K base, ~$80K OTE)

Obviously I'm not thinking about quitting without something substantially better, so that's why I'm asking if there are jobs out there with decent base but higher cap where I have more control of the situation? I'm not a big fan of how systematic everything in SaaS is (SDR -> SMB AE -> Mid-Market over 3-5 years time / SDR books demos for AE -> AE closes and passes to AM, etc) I'm looking for something a bit more...immediate and where I have more control of the sales process and higher commission potential

What are some good entry level sales jobs? I have no experience and I’m not hearing back from any employer that I’m applying to. I’m looking to make at least 60k. What industry/jobs will actually hire me and have enough commission where I can pull in 60k?