A Simple Guide to Technical Sales and Field Application Engineering: Key steps, shortcuts, and tips for how to have a prosperous career in Sales Engineering

by Russell Williamson

Thinking about launching a new career or progressing in your existing career as a Field Application Engineer or a Technical Sales professional? Do you dream of a career visiting and helping engineers in multiple industries, international travel, and a great salary earned using your ever-increasing technical knowledge? If so, then this is the book for you. This book does not contain hundreds of acronyms and sales buzz words, nor is it full of details you will find in a corporate sales book. If you want a list of corporate jargon, this isn’t the book for you.This book contains a set of hard-and-fast rules and techniques that will propel you out of your engineering comfort zone and into the exciting world of sales. If you have the engineering mentality—on or off, one or zero, black or white, binary way of thinking—this book’s direct, efficient approach is just the thing you need to learn the skills required to find success in your new career!The Author Before working in technical sales, Russell Jay Williamson had many years of design engineering experience. Experience in both a large multinational corporation with over 100,000 employees and a small company with only 11 employees has provided him with a great perspective on how Engineers work in this industry. Since switching into sales, he has developed the skills described in this book over many years from trial and error. This book describes these techniques that he has refined and will provide you, the reader, with the shortcuts you need so you don’t waste years becoming the best Sales Engineer you can be.

162 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2020

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good but slightly physical product Pre-sales focused rather than software.

A lot of general and early career advice bogs this down for those looking for Sales Engineering material only.