Hi and welcome to Sales Doesn’t Suck, a Positive Podcast.

My name is Aaron Thomas Smith and like many of you out there, I never planned on being a Sales Professional. All of the negative emotions and associations with sales successfully latched on to my psyche at a young age, encouraging me to do just about anything but sell.

But also like many of you, I found myself in the sales world and quickly had to reconcile these beliefs I had about what sales was with what I was quickly finding it to be.

That is - of course - a crucial role that every company needs filled in order to succeed.

Moreover, I found the people who I expected to be cartoonishly self absorbed and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-like were (and still are) lovely people doing a job that day in and day out is not an easy one! It seemed to me that the more I delved into the world of sales, the less my assumptions proved correct.

That said, starting out in sales you’re not just facing your outside rejection, you’re facing a daily battle for your positivity. Hearing ‘No’ again and again and getting hung up on (which will happen in any industry, trust me) is a hard thing for any human being to deal with.

As someone who has been there on the front lines for almost a decade now, I’m here to provide you a weekly 5 to 10 minute boost of positivity to help you get your numbers and close those deals. We’ll fight through the stereotypes and negativity, and come out the other side better, together.

So again, just a reminder -

Sales

Doesn’t

Suck

Thanks and see you all next week.