Managing Perceptions: Sales
Episode 8 of the Complete Developer Podcast podcast, hosted by BJ Burns and Will Gant, titled "Managing Perceptions: Sales" was published on October 29, 2015 and runs 56 minutes.
October 29, 2015 ·56m · Complete Developer Podcast
Summary
<div class="post-justified">This week BJ keeps his promise and brings an episode on understanding the roles and relationship of sales to development. The guys begin with a discussion on the importance of sales and what they do for the company. Next BJ takes us through an abbreviated Sales School 101. They then talk about differences in pay structure between development and sales with emphasis on why pay better matches ability with sales. The episode finishes with a discussion on how this effects programmers and how both sales and development teams can interact to better their work environments.</div><h3 style="text-align: center;">Links</h3><div class="left-link"><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/iot-suite/" target="_blank">Azure IoT Suites</a><a href="https://www.getdonedone.com/developers-vs-sales/" target="_blank">Developers vs Sales</a><a href="http://baselinescenario.com/2009/12/24/salespeople-and-programmers/" target="_blank">Salespeople and Programmers</a><a href="http://www.steadysales.com/the-7-steps-of-the-sales-process/" target="_blank">Seven Steps of the Sales Process</a></div><div class="right-link"><a href="https://www.pipelinersales.com/sales-process-steps/" target="_blank">Sales Process Steps</a><a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/229352/how-to-support-the-sales-team-and-avoid-the-often-the-sales-team-gets-us-into-t" target="_blank">How to Support Sales</a><a href="http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/why-do-programmers-get-paid-less-than.html" target="_blank">Why Programmers Get Paid Less</a><a href="http://browsershots.org" target="_blank">Browsershots</a></div>&nbsp; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode Description
<div class="post-justified">This week BJ keeps his promise and brings an episode on understanding the roles and relationship of sales to development. The guys begin with a discussion on the importance of sales and what they do for the company. Next BJ takes us through an abbreviated Sales School 101. They then talk about differences in pay structure between development and sales with emphasis on why pay better matches ability with sales. The episode finishes with a discussion on how this effects programmers and how both sales and development teams can interact to better their work environments.</div>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Links</h3>
<div class="left-link">
<a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/iot-suite/" target="_blank">Azure IoT Suites</a>
<a href="https://www.getdonedone.com/developers-vs-sales/" target="_blank">Developers vs Sales</a>
<a href="http://baselinescenario.com/2009/12/24/salespeople-and-programmers/" target="_blank">Salespeople and Programmers</a>
<a href="http://www.steadysales.com/the-7-steps-of-the-sales-process/" target="_blank">Seven Steps of the Sales Process</a>
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<div class="right-link">
<a href="https://www.pipelinersales.com/sales-process-steps/" target="_blank">Sales Process Steps</a>
<a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/229352/how-to-support-the-sales-team-and-avoid-the-often-the-sales-team-gets-us-into-t" target="_blank">How to Support Sales</a>
<a href="http://www.dodgycoder.net/2011/11/why-do-programmers-get-paid-less-than.html" target="_blank">Why Programmers Get Paid Less</a>
<a href="http://browsershots.org" target="_blank">Browsershots</a>
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