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Companies have their own training, especially when it comes to their sales teams, and as long as you get hired by the good company, as far as sales training you’re done, you know, give us a little bit of insight into what’s really going on and why it’s so important to have people in the position that you’re in.
Everybody’s like we have to have salesexperience. How do you get salesexperience without salesexperience? 04:35 Given my background, my one year of salesexperience, now I was ready at the age of 26. And I got a call the next week for a medical device job. I said I absolutely will.
Therefore, according to this way of thinking, a career in sales is a waste of time for talented people. Denigrating a career in medical sales has the consequence that brilliant graduates from universities are not considering selling jobs attractive. In fact, many company leaders in Medtech or Pharma started out as salespeople.
During the years I spent in sales leadership roles and healthcare, I did have a bird’s eye view of what was happening in terms of training salespeople and sales teams. However, it’s not a core competency within most corporate healthcare training teams to train in sales skills. Talking about these sales teams, you’ve seen a lot.
I started asking around to the reps, and they were like, “Becca, you don’t have a lot of experience. You don’t have salesexperience. We fast-forward, and I got a medical sales rep job. It’s about fifteen years of experience before I launched fully into my own venture. They make a lot of money.
Know what you’re doing because the patient’s safety is first.” They’re going to make sure you’re ensuring that patient safety is going to come first. She had no salesexperience. Be present. You can’t hide just because you don’t know anything. What you’re selling is the support.
Without this information, providers cant ensure the safety or efficacy of the medications they prescribe. Lacking this fundamental understanding as a sales rep can negatively impact a providers interest in a new product and their business relationship with the company. [1]
What’s your sentiment towards programs like ours where we take professionals that they have all the right stuff, no experience, no salesexperience, or no medical experience, but we’re having success getting them into even cardiovascular sales positions and medical positions?
Everybody’s like we have to have salesexperience. How do you get salesexperience without salesexperience? 04:35 Given my background, my one year of salesexperience, now I was ready at the age of 26. And I got a call the next week for a medical device job. I said I absolutely will.
Mark Copeland joins Samuel Adeyinka to share his medical salesexperience in sterile processing and infection prevention. We bring products to them that make them faster, more efficient, lower cost, and higher productivity without ever jeopardizing patient safety because that’s what we all do, everybody, you, and me.
Everybody’s like we have to have salesexperience. How do you get salesexperience without salesexperience? 04:35 Given my background, my one year of salesexperience, now I was ready at the age of 26. And I got a call the next week for a medical device job. I said I absolutely will.
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