Questions tagged [sales]
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Can your boss take vouchers from you, offered from suppliers?
I work in bathroom sales. The suppliers of the products we sell offer us "Love to Shop" vouchers for selling their goods over their competitors' goods. One promotion started from the 1st of ...
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Approach Sales Manager about fake reference list
I work for a manufacturing company (in EU), and it has come to my attention that the Sales Manager issued a reference list for a project on which I worked as a Senior Engineer. Upon review, I ...
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How would an employer base converting a 1099 Commission-Only earner to a W2 Salary without risking loss?
I want to pay only commissions based on performance, but many applicants ask about a base salary, and I don't want to risk losing money if they don't make at least what I'm paying them.
Is there any ...
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How do I handle being asked to work in a store if it makes me anxious?
I have had a new job for about 8 months now. This is an office job in the purchase department. While it is not in our job description or contract, they ask all office staff to work in one of the ...
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Is it common that the sales team haggle with software vendors? [closed]
My employer is a small software company that builds enterprise application software. I am a dev manager, managing a team of about 10 developers. One thing I always feel uncomfortable with is that our ...
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How to work with a boss who procrastinates and provides no opinion until the last moment?
I work in India in healthcare sales.
I am very goal-oriented and a person who is particular with my work. I don't like the idea of deadlines and my work is finished way before the deadline. For the ...
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Got fired because someone slipped and was injured (in public) on something I was alleged to have been carrying
I was hired to do a simple, short term job. I was handing out flyers (aka brochure) to promote a new online store in busy public areas. The other day my manager told me there "had been an ...
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Have I made a mistake by sharing my personal life with my boss as he has started criticising me based on that?
I work in sales. My boss is a micromanager and trying to change my personal life by adding discipline to it. I am okay with that.
What I am not okay with, is today morning on a meeting call, he has ...
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Stolen commission?
At my company there is a policy which states that whatever region the deal is signed in, that region gets the deal's commission. I've been watching one of my colleagues working on a deal for months ...
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How to share a valuable contact with a colleague without being cut out?
To make progress with a common project, I need to work with a colleague, a salesperson, by introducing her to a key stakeholder, a very valuable contact in my field.
Based on her past behaviour, I ...
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Can a customer ask for a different sales rep?
I am in charge of maintenance for a large business application, bought off the shelf from a major software editor, in Europe.
We are now deeply committed to them (as in the cost to change would be ...
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Approaching at work with potential client for purchasing something
I was recently approached by an old acquaintance. He seems to be in charge of company who is official partner of say some major international technology brand, say for example Cisco. As I understood ...
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Why would a company pays money to clients over the software they sell? [closed]
How could a company pay back some money to clients for selling a software (Is it a form of sue?). Could you explain this? It's not like when we buy something and we get a bad product and then you ask ...
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What is the impact on health of travelling internationally for 50-70% of the time?
I was offered a job as worldwide head of business development for X.
I was offered twice my current salary, plus a bonus. It's a very attractive offer, but I will have to travel 50-70% internationally ...
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job offer pulled away from hiring managers after they found out about DWAI from 4 years ago I was honest with HR but managers didn't know prior to HR
Job offer has been rescinded after the hiring mangers found out about a DWAI ("Driving While Ability Impaired") from 4 years ago which has come to light following going through DMV (Department of ...
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