What is Sales Engineering? | How to Be a Sales Engineer | What is a Sales Engineer?

Join me in this conversation with Sales Engineer Tanner Drake. He has a Mechanical Engineering Background and now works in the Software Industry. 1:1 Mentoring now available at https://www.alexisidro.com/mentor

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Tanner's Linkedin:   / tanner-drake5  
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NOTES:

The purpose of this video is to show another available career path to engineers.

If you are someone who likes to interact with people, provide solutions, change up the routine, and potentially, then pay attention to this whole episode about Sales Engineering!

As always, if you have any questions regarding this, let me know in the comments below or you can contact me through Instagram @realexisidro

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Times:

0:00 Preview
0:14 Sales Engineering and Tanner's background
2:00 How Tanner found and picked Sales Engineering in college
3:00 Traits as a Sales Engineer
4:57 Introverts and Extroverts
6:09 Life as a Sales Engineer so far
8:10 What is a Sales Engineer?
11:34 Day to Day as a Sales Engineer
12:24 Getting into the Software space as a Sales Engineer with a Mechanical Engineering background
14:55 Demand, training, and how some engineers become Sales Engineers over time
18:14 How to become a Sales Engineer (what traits are needed)
23:20 How long is the training to become a Sales Engineer? (Is it paid?)
27:30 Is Sales Engineering lucrative?
28:00 Do you need coding to be a Sales Engineer in the Software industry?
31:25 Stages of training to become Sales Engineer
33:48 The keys to performing well as a Sales Engineer
35:52 Do you have to take a test after training? Can you get fired?
38:00 Do Sales Engineers cold call clients?
39:00 Difference between Sales Engineers in different markets (Software and Mechanical)
43:00 What is the National Society of Sales Engineers?
49:10 How to get Sales Engineering jobs and into the Software industry
50:50 Do you need a STEM degree to be a Sales Engineer?
53:00 Career path and growth opportunities for Sales Engineers

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