Are you afraid of selling?
Are you afraid of being sold?
If that’s the case, you’re not alone. Unfortunately sales professionals are the subject of many jokes and clichés in shows. There’s even a famous play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller that paints a rather sad image of a sales person. I’m amused when I hear business students claim that they want to work in marketing but would never want to sell.
I grew up with a positive image of sales as a profession. My father represented a large pharmaceutical company and his work introduced life changing medications to doctors, including antidepressants and for Parkinson disease. He took his work very seriously, constantly advancing his own education.
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