A sales job is a job where your main responsibility is to help a company sell its products or services to customers and generate revenue.

What does a salesperson do?

Typical responsibilities include:

- Finding potential customers (lead generation)
- Calling, emailing, or meeting customers
- Understanding what the customer needs
- Explaining products/services and their benefits
- Giving demonstrations or presentations
- Negotiating prices and terms
- Handling customer questions and objections
- Closing deals
- Following up with existing customers
- Meeting monthly or quarterly sales targets

Common types of sales jobs

- Inside Sales – Mostly phone, email, WhatsApp, or video calls.
- Field Sales – Visiting customers personally and meeting them face-to-face.
- B2B Sales – Selling to other businesses.
- B2C Sales – Selling directly to individual customers.
- Business Development Executive (BDE) – Finding current business opportunities and clients.




- Sales Manager – Managing a sales team and its targets.

Skills needed

- Good communication
- Confidence
- Negotiation
- Listening skills
- Customer relationship management
- Ability to handle rejection
- Persuasion
- Basic computer/CRM skills
- Target-oriented mindset

Salary

Sales jobs often have fixed salary + incentives/commission. Your income can increase significantly if you consistently exceed your targets, although this varies by company and industry.

Simple example:
If you work as a sales executive for a company selling software, you might call 50 potential customers a day, explain the software to interested customers, arrange demos, negotiate with them, and try to close 5–10 new customers each month.

Pay: ₹15,000.00 - ₹25,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

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