7 year cybersecurity consultant exp. Burnt out of doing cyber work and want to get into cyber sales. Can you please offer some tips on how to get into it, or better yet, any leads?

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I had a very drunk friend say he makes 400-500k a year in tech sales. He said sometimes his monthly commission is 45k. He said he’d get me a job as a sales engineer, which didn’t sound like a good job title. Sounds entry level. Then he said I could get you 300k base and it’s 70/30. So 300k is guaranteed, 30% commission. I’d do POC’s, architecture, technical conversations. So just under 400k is the expected salary. As an enterprise sales exec his base isn’t very high he’s like 50/50 and heavily relies on commission. I meet up with him in 2 weeks in person. I was kinda skeptical about the conversation, but did some research and those numbers seem plausible. I got that lead from an old friend on LinkedIn. Can anyone confirm if those numbers seem legit?

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Depending on the company that so m definitely can be the sales engineer TC but I would be somewhat skeptical. The split is probably right in line however TCs for sales engineers I have send usually sit between 180-300. Definitely not 300k base.

I have a friend who makes 300k-400k in tech sales, but highly variable comp. His base is around 200k

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I was a TAM (post sales for a while and my comp was nearly $245k a year. My pre sale SA easily cleared 300k on a good year. For 400k I’m assuming they’re at one of the big tech companies with heavy stock incentives.

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Learn to sale and tell stories. Start making some cringe worthy psuedo-tech media that gets some SEO as an influencer. Then pitch yourself to be a pre-sales SA or SE and from there if you wanna go all in pivot and learn how to be a AM

OP asked for tips on getting to sales team. Not your personal opinion. I’m not in sales, but can appreciate such teams because why— you’re just a cost center in most cases if you arent in a revenue generating group such as consulting

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