What did you focus on in your first year to go from “order taker” to actually running a structured sales process? I’ve done years of retail sales and just moved into my first B2B inside sales role, and honestly I feel stupid half the time on discovery calls.

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This phase is so normal. First year, I’d focus on mastering your discovery framework (3–5 core questions you always hit), getting really curious about the problems your best customers actually solved, and listening back to your own calls. Once you know the problem patterns and have a repeatable question flow, you stop feeling like an order taker and more like someone leading a conversation.

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good advice!

I would say make sure to be networking and bumping elbows with the right people honestly. I hate to say it but so much of this industry is who you know. Its all about politics at the end of the day.

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