Shoot Your Shot! - Porchia Jenkins
This week we bring you Porchia Jenkins, Sales Development Manager at TripActions! After 8 years in education, she has successfully transitioned into sales and sales leadership! Porchia and JR talk about her athletic career, tips for anyone transitioning to sales, what makes a successful BDR, and her involvement with Girls Club, a program built to empower women to earn sales leadership roles!
Awesome conversation this week with Porchia Jenkins, Sales Development Manager at TripActions! Porchia talks about her background and college athletics career (0:56-6:25) As someone who transitioned into sales from another career, she talks about that switch and the challenges that go along with it (6:25-12:52) Sales can be taught! and Porchia is a perfect example of that (12:52-16:00) What to look for in your first sales role (16:00-21:45) The traits of the most successful BDR's (21:45-30:42) Porchia offers some advice for women getting into sales, find more information in the bio of this episodes Youtube video! (30:42-35:30) Favorite mentors and advice for being one (35:30-42:25) We finish the episode talking about elite sales skills and what being a sales professional means! (43:40-45:59)
