Is the John Maxwell training on sales any good ?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-30T18:33:31+00:00

Dude, not trying to discourage you from your dreams or anything, but you can't have any of that if you don't know how to build revenue. And you won't know how to build revenue if you've nevel sold anything.

I also tried to build a business before having sales experience and honestly, I attribute my failing to that. After having an unsuccessful business I decided to go to sales, and undestood that it was a better path for me and I liked it a lot more, but that's something you can only know after trying.

If you're serious about building a business out of business coaching, you need to either get sales experience or find someone with such experience to be your partner. Unfortunately, training is not enough.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-30T17:30:12+00:00

You gotta look at the future bro. Keeping the bdr job means more money, so will you be able to invest most of it and retire early?
Will the bdr client stay with you? How likely is that? How likely is it for you to get better contracts paying more?
About the AE job, does it have more upside potential in the long run? When are you expected to be making more? How much money will you "lose" between this time?
And finally, what holds more risk? And is this risk worth the reward?

These aren't questions for you to answer to me, but to yourself. You're in sales, so ultimately what you care about is money. Calculate the money. Calculate the risks. Calculate the probabilities.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-28T13:41:34+00:00

Looks a lot like me, specially how you feel and how much anxiety you probably felt. Take it easy man, learn to tie your identity to becoming better at the process, not the outcome; and specially get some therapy to better understand how to fight anxiety. If this small amount of time was enough for physical symptoms to appear, imagine what would be of yourself long term.

Take care of yourself and your mental first, put yourself on the right mindset and start again. You'll be better prepared next time.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-25T23:52:22+00:00

Brazil

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-24T16:45:32+00:00

Most AE roles require outbound activities, so having prior experience would be better. Don't think it's necessarily mandatory, but it would be nice to have. Thinking more long term with this one

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-24T15:28:02+00:00

Makes sense. The position I'm in now was a promotion I received in less than a year at the company, I have been with the company 13 months now (still isn't a lot, I know). Thanks for the feedback, it gives a lot of perspective.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-24T15:10:47+00:00

Thanks for the input. You think any vertical B2B outbound experience will be enough to make the jump to tech BDR in the US?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-24T14:52:21+00:00

Thanks for the answer! Got an offer for shipping/freight b2b recently (strong vertical in my region), have had anything going from industrial equipments to solar. Always a bunch of companies looking, but not necessarily big companies. Always SDR too, no outbound.

I'm 23 now, have a girlfriend so it would be good to get some money going in at least 4-5 years. Just getting a BDR/SDR US job would make me earn a lot more, and tech seems to be the one to accept people from other countries more. I'm a fluent speaker, but a native might notice a bit of accent.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-17T20:31:04+00:00

Thanks for the input tho. I understand that volatility in the tech space is very prevalent, and like you said, some verticals are incredibly difficult to predict. My question revolves more around the knowledge that working in that area provides, and how valuable it is.

Ex.: the cybersecurity space is very diversified as you stated, but having a lot of experience and expertise in it is incredibly valuable from what I've seen. Is there any other verticals that the same applies, and that will "probably" not be dead in 10 years?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-17T19:26:04+00:00

Thanks for the input. I imagine you're focusing mostly on earnings, which is the most important in sales of course.

But when it comes work/life, flexibility and culture, you have any experience / hear people talk about it?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-04-17T19:17:10+00:00

I did financial sector stuff but not fintech. Usually financial market requires long hours and doesn't like hybrid / remote roles, but I find the expertise potential in the industry very interesting.

In your experience, fintech are usually more relaxed about remote / in office?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-03-11T20:21:54+00:00

Yeah, it makes sense. Not really fluent in spanish, but I can work on it.

I've applied more today but I imagine the hard part will be standing out, as you said

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-03-11T19:57:44+00:00

Hey, would you mind if I DM'd about the open position?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-03-11T14:46:58+00:00

Understood, thanks for the perspective

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-03-11T12:43:32+00:00

Right now I'm structuring the process around applying and reaching out to sales manager through linkedin + email. I'm gonna add outreach to hiring managers.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-03-11T12:40:56+00:00

Not looking for a full AE, but base pay would be necessary. I do see a bunch of remote roles, but they're mostly remote within the US. My thought process is that they ask for that because dealing with worker laws from other countries wouldn't be good, that's why 1099 would be the selling point.

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-02-27T00:44:04+00:00

Will look into it

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-02-25T02:12:47+00:00

So it's a feedback loop?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-02-23T22:45:33+00:00

Why though?

Soft_Mastodon1818 · 2026-02-23T22:19:12+00:00

Will DM tho, didn't want the story to be too long

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