r/sales
Working sales professionals and their managers
- Size
- Large
- Buying intent
- High
- Promotion
- Conditional
Members discuss tooling constantly and are unusually willing to name what they pay, which makes this one of the few places where you can read real pricing sentiment for your category in public.
The complication is obvious: everyone here sells for a living, so everyone here recognises a pitch instantly. Techniques that work on other audiences are transparent to this one. The only approach that survives is being straightforwardly useful and disclosing what you built without any framing around it.
What people actually post
The tool question
What CRM, what dialer, what enrichment provider. Frequent, direct, and usually answered with a dozen specific product names.
The quota reality check
Someone is missing a number and asking what to change. Sometimes a tooling gap, more often a process or territory problem.
The vendor rant
Contract terms, seat minimums and renewal tactics. Entertaining, high engagement, and a signal that the category is in play.
What people get wrong about it
Vendors assume sales people love new tools. Most are tired of tools being imposed on them by management and evaluate anything new with visible suspicion.
Can you promote in r/sales?
Self-promotion is restricted and enforced, but the community distinguishes sharply between someone contributing who happens to have built something and someone who arrived to sell. Get that distinction right and participation is comfortable.
What gets you removed
Any language that resembles a cold open. The community recognises every technique in the book because they use them professionally, and naming the technique back at you is a favourite pastime.
A good first contribution
Contribute to a deal-strategy thread with a real opinion. Members respect directness and dislike hedging, so a clear answer you are willing to defend lands better than a balanced one.
Products that fit here
- CRM and pipeline tooling
- Prospecting, enrichment and data
- Call recording and coaching
- Proposal, quoting and contract tools
What does not work
Anything promising automated outreach at volume. The community has strong opinions about spam and will treat the pitch as evidence that you do not understand the job.
Timing
End of quarter brings a spike in frustration posts and a dip in tolerance for anything unserious.
How it compares to the neighbours
The communities closest to r/sales, and how they differ on the three things that decide whether one is worth your time.
| Community | Size | Intent | Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/sales | Large | High | Conditional |
| r/marketing | Very large | Medium | Conditional |
| r/CustomerSuccess | Niche | Medium | Conditional |
| r/smallbusiness | Very large | High | Conditional |
Where this fits in a wider plan
r/sales appears in our list of the best subreddits for B2B SaaS, which sets it against the other communities worth watching in that market. If you are starting from nothing, the six-week plan in finding your first 100 users covers how to build standing before you mention a product at all.
Watch r/sales without reading it.
Lidar reads it every day, scores each post against what your product does, and sends you the ones worth answering. Along with the rest of business and operations.