After being in the sales-related field for almost two decades, I concluded that, as a salesperson, we can sell with pride. The idea of being a salesperson wasn’t appealing to me at first. Someone once told me that as a salesperson, we must not have pride, and beg if we must—to meet targets—for the sake of the commission.
I was even more convinced it was true when a friend talked about how she begged and cried to her customers to close the deal. A few years later, after trying in the service and administration fields for about two years, I became a salesperson. Let’s admit that it was the fastest way to earn more money in a short period.
In the beginning, I took others’ advice—be patient even if they’re unreasonable, be convincing, bend over to please them, and many more unbelievable pieces of advice that I followed.
Over time, these behaviours were eating me alive from within. The thought of visiting the clients disgusted and annoyed me. My legs felt so heavy that I couldn’t bring myself to work. I began questioning myself if it was worth betraying my feelings for this.
Finally, in my last sales job, at the last company, I decided to save my soul. That’s when the realisation came.
We do not need to betray ourselves working as a salesperson. We do not need to convince others so hard to buy something—if they want to, they will. If the deal is for us, we don’t need to overwork. We do not need to prove to them with tons of evidence that our product is good—they need to feel that we’re trustworthy.
Customers came to me, orders came in, and they were sharing my contact details in their community after I decided to stop chasing and proving myself.
Thankful, it has been the most relaxing and insightful few years of my career as a salesperson.
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