Pressure v/s Pleasure in a Sales Job

There is an old adage in psychology: “It’s okay to have butterflies. Just make sure you get them to fly in formation”.
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This good old saying is pretty apt when it comes to sales jobs which are often very pressurizing. But at the same time, if the pressure can be controlled and channelized well, it can be highly rewarding. So here’s our perspective about the “Pressure VS Pleasure” aspects of a sales job:

• Achieve Targets and get Comparable Incentives

Achieving targets can be highly pressuring for a sales person. This pressure can be quite heavy to bear at times. However, most of the times a sales job is incentive based which makes it highly performance driven. Simply put – if you sell more, you pocket more!

• Different People but Same Concept

Sales jobs can often get monotonous to the disinterested souls. What’s worse, some potential clients are difficult to deal with and can put one in a fix with their unpredictable/unreasonable behavior. The positive side to this is – it can enrich a sale person’s knowledge about different cultures, ethics, beliefs and ideas. Selling the same concept to different kinds of people can be quite interesting, and a great life skill to acquire.

• Challenging Clients and Joy of Winning them Over

Several attempts to get in touch, multiple interactions, and a big effort in convincing the customer to buy a product or a service – all this can seem like never ending cycle OR an attractive challenge to beat down. If you’re able to convince a rude, stubborn and hard to catch client, to buy your product or service, you know you’re good at this. The joy of “winning over’ is rewarding!

• The Boss and the Team

Ok now don’t roll your eyes and starting ‘bitching’ about your boss. Not all bosses are bad. If you have a very demanding boss who doesn’t understand you, it could be difficult, but if you have a boss like we have at Sutra you would jump up with joy! (Yes, my boss paid me for this ). To have encouraging and supportive seniors is a blessing as they can help you overcome work stress, when it becomes difficult for you to handle.

• Use Results to Gain or Lose

There might be extreme pressures from your colleagues, or your superiors to ensure the company doesn’t lose a valuable client, in tough situations. At the end of the day, you might feel you’ve stretched yourself beyond protocol, in order to satisfy a client’s requirements. BUT, that pressure of holding back a last minute loss can end up quite positively in the end. A client who goes back home thinking well of your service, is bound to spread his/her  happiness with friends and colleagues. For instance, Snigdha Manchanda, a seasoned Social Media Consultant, recommended SutraHR to Bhairavi Sagar of Onion Insights after she used SutraHR Services to hire. You see what I mean now?

To sum it up, a sales job can be highly pleasurable if the sales person enjoys the whole process of making a sale. Rather than looking at the high pressures of this job, why not look at the pleasure of victory!