If you& #39;re a young Nigerian grad with good people skills, you should consider getting into tech sales.

Learn tech sales and get very good at it.

I promise you that in 5 years you will be extremely sought after.

Here& #39;s a 10 stephttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź§µ" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread"> to get you to tech https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź’µ" title="Banknote mit Dollar-Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Banknote mit Dollar-Zeichen">without writing code
1. Read this book. https://blog.close.com/outbound-sales-book/

2.">https://blog.close.com/outbound-... Find a B2B startup whose product you like. Offer to bring them leads for free.

3. Implement the book, generate a huge lead list and pass it along.

4. Convince them to hire you to close the leads on commission first. They will.
5. Close the leads and then negotiate a better pay structure.

6. Now you& #39;re in. Kill it in your first sales role. Read, learn and practice. Spend ~ 18 months in that role.

7. When you have a decent contact list, seek to move to another company in a higher position
8. Implement all your skills and grow sales in the new business, get yourself into a leadership track within 2 years, recruit and train other sales people

9. Always grow your network and seek out founder types. Once you find a founder starting out in your industry, join them!
10. Negotiate equity and lead sales in the startup.

Within 5 years, you& #39;ve become a tech founder based on sales alone and you too can exit for millions of $$$ and you don& #39;t need to ever write a line of code.

Extra tip - Pick specific industries to be an expert in.
If you got to the end and you& #39;re motivated to get started on this, email me (email in bio).

I might just do a 3-month sales internship based on the book I tweeted. We& #39;ll go over topics in the book, we& #39;ll set up goals and whoever meets them gets hired.
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