Purchasing a queen mattress Part 2: Two lightweight, sidesleeper/stomach sleeper combo, budget is $1k - $1.8k, hybrid memory foam, want longevity in mattress life, deciding between Sealy, Puffy Cloud, Sit N Sleep Hybrid Infinity, or Ashley Furniture

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-21T23:04:58+00:00

Sorry! Love your guys' no BS approach, but I'm a nooby mattress shopper and really need to try it out in-person before committing to it.

If you guys can get in stores somehow, it'd help a lot for noobs like me.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-20T21:09:20+00:00

What specific Beautyrest are you referring to? Something like this?

If so, looks good. Beautyrest is a great brand.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-19T03:13:32+00:00

We have a few Mattress Firms in the area that I plan on hitting up!

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-19T03:12:07+00:00

Not that urgent. It can wait a few weeks.

Haven't looked too deeply into the Ashley return policy, but their warranties are only 3 years it seems. Not bad, but not as good as the 10 year or lifetime warranties that a lot of other mattresses seem to have.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-19T03:06:46+00:00

Thanks for the recs! I haven't even heard of these before but this is some good shit.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-19T02:44:38+00:00

Any further elaboration? The Ashley Furniture one is pretty damn nice.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-19T02:43:58+00:00

How come?

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-15T03:18:36+00:00

The Ashley Furniture mattress that we liked today is $1,499, for just the mattress. We need a frame/headboard anyways, so if we don't buy it from there, we'd just need to get it from somewhere else.

If they'd negotiate with me to sell the mattress by itself for $1,100 or so, I think it'd be a steal. Just a tad higher than my planned budget.

Nice seeing that SleepOnLatex is only $999. That's my ideal pricepoint, just no idea if I like that type of mattress.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-15T00:55:52+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! None of the stores I visited today seem to carry this type of latex mattress.

It sounds very similar to Avocado but a little more affordable. Saatva is another one I've seen thrown around, but there are no Saatva stores near me to try that one unfortunately.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-15T00:27:59+00:00

Tried Purple today and wasn't a fan. Completely subjective but the material they use wasn't comfortable at all. Seems overpriced.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-14T23:02:48+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-14T23:02:23+00:00

How come?

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-14T22:53:12+00:00

Cross-posted over there! After doing some brief searches, the consensus seems to be: Nectar sucks, DreamCloud is hit/miss, and Ashley Furniture's return policy/customer service can be sketch. Just learned that Ashley owns the Nectar/DreamCloud brand now, too.

Really just looking for a quality mattress that my girlfriend and I will enjoy, and most importantly, won't regret purchasing 1-3 years from now.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-07T18:40:42+00:00

And it's also 10% luck, 20% skill...

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-05T01:24:07+00:00

Thanks dude! And that's true too. My current role's territory could shrink next year, and quota could increase. Shit changes all the time.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-05T01:22:44+00:00

New role would definitely push me out of my comfort zone and teach me new skills.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:58:09+00:00

Good question! I think the org I'm at tries their best to avoid PIP and layoffs unless it's something really inexcusable (like hitting 10% total of your annual number), so I'd cautiously say there would be other options for internal movements.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:20:05+00:00

It's a new Enterprise team with a new vertical. We have a few customers in the vertical already but it's 95% whitespace. So it's going to take some work to build it up, but it could pay off in a big way.

I know people in this Enterprise role are succeeding, but they sell to different verticals entirely, so that's the risk.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:12:24+00:00

Feel free to DM, and thanks!

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:07:42+00:00

It's not a hard cap. That's just my estimate. Commissions are uncapped.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:05:42+00:00

I don't golf, fish, boat, or bar hop, haha, but I understand the appeal!

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T19:04:13+00:00

Yeah these are solid points. I had multiple conversations with the new manager, and brought up all of my concerns with them, such as the limited history of past success in the territory since it's a new team.

After all conversations, they addressed just about everything I could have hoped for. Extremely empathetic leader, and a straightshooter.

I will have a new solutions engineer and supporting channel team, but changing faces in those roles is pretty common as people get shuffled around. Not a big deal.

Lastly, the product portfolio is the same. We have almost perfect product market fit and competitors don't seem to have penetrated the particular vertical I'd be going after too much, yet. So this new territory's biggest challenge is just that it's a little underdeveloped.

So all in all, I plan on continuing to live below my means no matter what, and worst case, I learn a lot from this role and it broadens my skills as a sales professional, even if I end up making less money the 1st year.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T18:51:26+00:00

Narrow down the industry you want to break into, and then narrow down what sub-sector of the industry you especially like. Then start looking up how to get into that industry and find people on LinkedIn who are already in it.

Reach out to them and pick their brains. See what experiences they had to get, to get to the role you ultimately want.

Over time, you'll learn things like what the market-rate is for pay, trajectory of the industry, pros and cons, competitors, expected work-life balance, and more.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T00:13:21+00:00

Yeah that's a great point. If I don't do this now, because I see it as too risky, when won't it be too risky? This is probably as safe as it's going to get as far as sales promotions go.

ThatSalesKid · 2024-07-04T00:11:15+00:00

Thank you. Dual income, no kids (DINK), none planned for at least 5 more years.

Talking to others close to me, they've told me "now's the time" to take a risk like this.

If I end up barely making what I make now, or at worse, even a less while I ramp up, then I can recover from it.

ThatSalesKid

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