If you’ve always wanted a rewarding career, the tech sales industry may be the path for you. If you’re an ambitious problem-solver who likes to win, you’ll find tech sales not only fulfilling, but lucrative as well. As the tech industry continuously introduces innovative services and products, tech sales roles have become more crucial than ever. SDRs are in the front lines of the tech biz, connecting with customers and clients, and coming up with the smartest solutions for their problems. Sales Development Representatives aren’t just important to the business — they’re essential. Tech sales will be a gratifying career if you’re looking to pivot career paths, or if you have previous experience in retail sales, but want to take that experience to a totally new level in tech. Do you enjoy engaging with customers? Do you need to be immersed in a value-driving, stimulating industry that’s constantly giving you new, exciting challenges? Would you like to thrive in a high-energy environment that’s collaborative and data-driven? Then it sounds like Tech Sales is for you. Your next job could be at one of SV Academy’s 400+ high-growth employer partners. Top companies like Survey Monkey, InsideView, Vimeo, Handshake, Gainsight, or Palo Alto Networks, are hiring Sales Development Representatives in the U.S. for revenue-generating roles. No experience in tech or sales is required to pursue a new, awesome career in Tech Sales. This Professional Certificate is where you start.
The sample that you used in week 5: Peer-graded Assignment: Taking Responsibility for Disruptions to Your Plan does not allow me to edit it. Please fix this.
Absolutely a great course that teaches on personal branding and confidence.
The best part of the course, a revelation compared to my previous sales experience.
A very practical guide to understanding Salesforce.
The course does not only teach you to be a top SDR but also the person you must become to be that.
I have completed my foundation for interviewing with confidence, and I received a score email. However, I have not yet received my certificate. Please help to get my certificate
Thank you for making this possible remotely. Hope it can help me in my next job hunting.
I found this call very insightful and once you put in the work, you get more understanding.
I found this course really helpful in providing me with a detailed understanding of what I need to know to be successful when interviewing with tech companies.
The best course in the Sales, Understanding the empathy . Helps a lot when working in a startup.
The course has exposed me to the fact that, as a sales person, you must always remain open minded because there are constantly learning opportunities around you.
This course contained every knowledge I needed to start applying for jobs even without so much job experience. It explains how to differentiate oneself from the crowd going into an interview.
Showing: 20 of 125
A very perfect way of coaching and grooming to achieve success in becoming a successful SDR
Hi! This is one of best available courses for SDR. Thank you, Coursera Team! Please keep up the excellent work! Stay safe.
very hard to get in touch with professors. grading system is flawed
This course has been an eye opener and mind blowing
The Future is wonderful and bright
The quiz questions sometimes don't grade properly. Questions that are marked as correct will be counted as incorrect in grading process.
Peer-graded review is a joke
there is a issue with a quiz grading and no help to fix it is available. this is costing me time to complete my course.
There is no one to help if we need to ask anything
I must confess, in recent years I have struggled to go this far in any course that I started let alone completing one. As a father of 3 (the youngest is just 9months old) and an entrepreneur, I get overwhelmed. The layout and process of this course made it easy for me to push myself and commit to it. The fact that you thought growth mindset early in the course helped position me and my mindset and that became a driver for me. I enjoyed the course, the instructors are awesome and I am so glad. I know this is course 1 of 5, but I am feeling a sense of accomplishment; I believe it will serve as a motivating factor for me to continue and even do some other courses.
THANK YOU GUYS!
This was an amazing course. A lot of what I learned, I used in a previous job. However, in applying this information to an SDR Role broadens my way of thinking. I did a lot of self-reflection: Fueling a Growth Mindset, having grit, focusing on near wins, building self-confidence, understanding my working style and energy patterns, and finally habits of tactical strategy. I also learned the 80:20 rule. I actually wrote this on a whiteboard at my work, and told my colleagues about it. In the final week I learned more on being accountable and taking full responsibility. I highly recommend this course to anyone.
At first I struggled with application created for this course but after some time I got used and enjoyed it well. Another thing that interested me is that you combined video and notes and students are able to save notes on the app.The lectures were not fast so that those of us that English is not a mother language can understand better .Thank your the entire time to your support. And my special appreciation should go to madam Naomi, you are indeed a gifted lecture
I learned a lot in Course 1. Thank you so much Coursera, Sales Force and SV Academy for providing this course. It is motivational.
I found this call very insightful and once you put in the work, you get more understanding.
Best investment ever made to advance my career.
Great learning and really lays a good foundation and setting a good mindset necessary for success in tech sales, you know what they say about the battle being won or lost in the mind even before you begin.
The course was quite intense with a serious and hands-on assignments, so be ready to dedicate good amount of your time into this.
The team did a great job and I higly recommend this course.
Concerns:
It was very obvious that some of the instructors where reading from a screen. Please look into this and modify.
I filled a form for mentorship and never got a response and even email to the program manager was never responded. Some of us are into this program in the long run and would really appreciate some form of mentorship and network, so it will be nice if your team follow up with most of the benefits you promised.
In all, thank you for the great training.
Overall, I liked the course. It gives a good overview and a lot of useful tips, mostly high-level but still quite useful. The videos and articles referenced are also quite good and informative. I would say that the speaker videos are not that great. A few key problems: - They are not always properly introducing themselves so I don't get the value of knowing who they are, what challenges they faced, etc. This takes away value from seeing different people presenting material - Most speakers are clearly reading from the screen in front of them. It would be so much better if they actually learned the material and spoke about the topic from their own perspective
Content was thorough and applicable.
Not suitable for me. I wanted to learn how to use Sales force CRM tools
too long and waiting on grades to move on to the next course is silly.
Reating tha same lanaguage over and over