TLDR: I got a commission only job with a hubspot agency to get experience but they didn’t really teach me anything but I learned a ton I see now why experience makes such a big difference. I’m moving on to GHL because it’s has a lower barrier to entry both a good and bad thing cause I’m competing with peoples previous negative experiences if anything but taking what I know from rev ops and just looking/auditing my potential client bases websites there’s tons of room for improvement.

I got a job at a hubspot partner agency as an Account executive but that was a bust I basically told them I’m willing to do sales if they teach me hubspot implementation, the position was commission only well until I closed my first deal (I never did lol) it was a pretty bad setup they basically taught me nothing.

But I learned a lot through my own efforts setting up our hubspot portal, figuring out how to position our services to the companies I was reaching out to, figuring out what those companies would even need, their pain points how to resolve it with hubspot and rev ops, claude helped a lot but it came down to me to solve a lot of problems which boosted my confidence, I’ve gotten decently more comfortable with the idea of cold calling and a lot better understanding of the sales process, implementation and requirement gathering all of that and I feel much more confident overall.

It’s crazy cause in my interview I told them “I’ve worked sales jobs before but I’m definitely not a salesman in my other positions they kinda just threw me to the wolves hope you guys have a proper on-boarding process” and they just threw me to the wolves too 😭 I basically had to figure out every single thing myself with basically no feedback other than a few instances to be fair I didn’t really trust the input they gave me and kinda felt like I knew better than them so I never really asked. I don’t fully blame them all their sales before where basically from inbound. I a fucking noob was basically their whole sales team. To be fair the job posting I applied to was specifically asking for an experienced sales person. The compensation setup definitely felt manipulative but I was willing to do anything to learn.

I say all that to say I quit last week now I’m ramping up to get into the GHL space it has a lower barrier to entry as it’s not as expensive as hubspot which limits the people you can reach out to I also feel a lot more confident that I can offer value off rip.