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[PrettyBoyAJ]

Let me add one more goal for the end of the year.

5. Get a serious business plan developed.

Whether it flops or not I need to try something/anything.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Work is starting to become a little frustrating. They expect me to go out and find all this business even though these accounts that they gave me are recycled. It's like finding a needle in a haystack. But I will keep "hunting" and doing this work in hopes of finding something.

If anybody has experience with Corporate Sales then holla @ me. All advice is welcome. I'm still learning!

For 2014 it's 6 figure income or a bust........ If I stayed at Nissan I would have been there right now already so I hope this transition to corporate was a good decision.

 

[BeDJ]

What does your company sell?

 

[AAAgent]

Ditto. My company sells to investment banks, law firms, and large corporations. I have a bit of experience in corporate sales as i work in account management.

What are you selling? My experience is always finding the right person to talk to. Sometimes that takes a **** ton of calling and being helpful/friendly to people while letting them know, you need to talk to the decision maker. I start with an email which they most never respond to. Follow-up with a call and voicemail, and then follow-up with another call/voicemail, then email again, and i keep doing that until i get a call or they tell me to go away.

Once you get the call, since you've been in sales, you just work on prioritizing your time between people.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Software solutions and hardware such as Copier and Printers. (The expensive ones)

http://www.konicaminolta.com/

 

[BeDJ]

Edit: Sorry, thought you were a reseller.

To sell to those kind of products, you need to get in touch with the company's purchasing department. Simply tell them that you want to compete for their business. At the end of the day, all they care about is pricing and how fast you can get it there. Your goal is to be on the pre-approved vendors list.

If you are doing marketing, send out an email blast with the MFG's best promo. You can get contacts via jigsaw.com and cross reference it to LinkedIn. Some email blast tips for businesses

<100 employees John@xyz.com or JohnJ@xyz.com
100-500 jjones@xyz.com
>500 John.Jones@xyz.com

If you need contacts, just call the receptionist and ask them 'verify' the email address. You'll be surprised how often they'll transfer you to them. Those gatekeepers are there for a reason, be nice and genuine to them.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Sound advice playa. I know as of now my chances significantly heightened when I know the decision maker and I go in a place asking for the decision maker as opposed to walking in the place and asking who the decision maker is.

So my plan is to call and figure out the decision maker before going in.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Got my first sale in less then a month. That's pretty good when the normal sales cycle is 90 days. It's the first of many things to come.

On a side note I don't want to go in detail. But lets just say A.J. has got a stripper on the team! Let the games begin.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

So heres my goals

1. Focus on learning my career and setting myself to be able to make GREAT money next year.

I made my first sale and I plan on actually putting in some good work this week. Going out more in the field and actually setting up appointments.

2. Go to the gym and actually work out 2x a week.

I only worked out once this week. It's kinda hard to work out like you want to when you don't have anybody go with you to spot you. My cousin said we was gonna go 2x but this dude just be flexing way too much. It's getting to the point where I don't wanna **** wit him no more seriously.

3. Not buy any more clothes or accessories. No more 80$+ dinners unless its a special occasion. Be more frugal with my pe$os.

I almost bought some more True Religion jeans the other day. But I said nope!

4. Maintain quality women in my life that can actually benefit me.

I'm talking foreal foreal to a couple girls. (Hard to count because I'm half messing with a lot but only taking two serious). My main girl pressuring me to ask her to be with her and I'm contemplating on it. I don't like asking girls to be my GF firstly. I'm used to girls asking me. My cousin just got in a relationship. My other boy just got in a relationship. I might just be that time guys. I don't know what I want to do.

5. Get a serious business plan developed.

Still haven't figured anything out. I might just have to save some money and buy and sell cars. I did have a good idea but I need to research it thoroughly.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

I haven't really went out and turned up like that in about a month. Literally all my boys are getting in relationships. It's crazy. I'm taking a step back from then and focusing on my self. To be honest I'm close to getting in a relationship but the problem is I like my main girls. Don't wanna cut the Dwayne Wade off because I got Lebron. Ya kno!

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

bump.

 

[JaegerPilot217]

Its like pretty much us guys lives are defined by our job, career, occupation, where we are headed in life or what we are doing with our life, goals, dreams, ambitions

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

Life is grand right now. I got two wifeys and a main chick who is a stripper and knows that we won't go farther then smashing. Life is grand!!

But anyway I'm trying to network a little bit and find a better opportunity job wise. See if I can shop myself around and get a higher base salary. Just weighing in my options. I'm looking into Pharmaceutical Sales right now or I can just go the accounting route.

My job is cool right now and I like it but I'm just shopping myself around. Seeing what I can get.

 

[Solomon]

Life is grand right now. I got two wifeys and a main chick who is a stripper and knows that we won't go farther then smashing. Life is grand!!

But anyway I'm trying to network a little bit and find a better opportunity job wise. See if I can shop myself around and get a higher base salary. Just weighing in my options. I'm looking into Pharmaceutical Sales right now or I can just go the accounting route.

My job is cool right now and I like it but I'm just shopping myself around. Seeing what I can get.

Careful with the stripper fam, some of these broads be haven for STD's

I don't know if you mentioned it before but what type of job do you do?

Edit Just saw you in sales, so do you get paid commission or is it just a base salary?

Damn Atlanta seems like a hot spot I don't know why guys like Nismo and Don Gorgon complain that they can't get any play down there when you killing it

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

I get paid a nice little base salary plus commissions. But it's not the same 6 figure money I was seeing at Nissan. Next year its 6 figures or a bust so I'm trying to set myself up for that.

and I strap up with the stripper.

One of my side chicks is coming to Atlanta to for thanksgiving break too.

The crazy thing about this is a couple of days I was willing to cut off everybody for one of my wifeys. (or at least tell her I would.) But life is too good. I'm not worried about what any of my btches are doing; I'm making money. I'm just enjoying my life.


Where are those guys complaining they can't get women? I get women going to the damn grocery store. The game is GOOD.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

True^^

But the woman out here outnumber the man by a lot. If your game is tight and you have some confidence it's nothing to bag bad chicks. My first date nowadays ALWAYS consist of just drinks. That's 20$ and after that I'm good to go. I let these girls know I ain't the dude to just buy buy buy and buy for them. They better put in to.

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

I was at the grocery store today with my main chick. This girl asked me to buy her some laundry detergent. She asked me if "I got her". I said hell nah. She looked at me like I'm crazy. and yesterday she asked me why I don't buy her stuff???

Wasup with these "bad *****es" thinking that niggas just going to buy them ****. I'm on another level of the game. How about you watch ME buy **** for my damn self.

I was considering wifing her up but some sht she do is turning me off. Then she had the nerve to say she blowed cuz I didn't buy her 13$ worth of crap for her.

**** OUTTA HERE

-__-

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

^Next day I have her cooking for me and cleaning. So the game is good. All you gotta do is check these women playas.

This weekend wasn't too much of a big turn up. To be honest I haven't really hit the clubs like that in a month. It's been getting colder and I actually have some females I like for once.

My mind is actually focused on chips. (pe$os). There is only one month and one week left in this year. For 2014 its 6 figures or bust for me. I could've easily stayed at Nissan and I would be damn near close to 6 figures right now if I stayed. Sometimes I feel like I made a mistake in moving back to Atlanta and working corporate America but it is a learning experience. When I got in the car business I was getting money ASAP. But with this corporate sales it's more of a strategy and it has a way better potential I believe. and I have more time to have a personal life. I mean I didn't get my MBA to be a car salesperson, I got it to own my own business.

I desire more money, I desire a condo, I desire to be successful.

 

[JaegerPilot217]

If it does supposedly get harder for women as they age, then all the single post-menopase women should just jump off a cliff since they are no longer desirable

 

[PrettyBoyAJ]

^What's your purpose on being on SoSuave?

Just curious.