Can I promote a sales tool in r/sales?
No. Selling, self-promotion, trials, and vendor recommendations are tightly restricted.
Subreddit guides
r/sales rules, stats, and what to post
A current Rankhog guide to r/sales: what the subreddit is for, rules, posting standards, and what works before you publish.
Current public stats
- Members
- 576,751
- Verified
- 2026-05-26
- Category
- Sales and go-to-market professionals
Rules can change, so Rankhog stores verification dates with each MDX page and keeps the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
- Community karma is required to post: Users need community karma before creating new posts, and karma farming is not allowed.
- No selling or self-promotion: Do not promote what you sell or reveal your vendor affiliation unless directly relevant and asked.
- No recruiting users: The subreddit is not for hiring, recruiting, private trials, or beta user recruitment.
- No spam, referral links, or marketing blogspam: Spam, affiliated recommendations, referral links, and marketing blogspam are ban risks.
- No AI-generated content: Posts and comments suspected of being bot or AI-generated can be removed.
Works well
- Specific questions about prospecting, discovery, pipeline, objections, comp, hiring, and sales process.
- First-person lessons from selling with enough context to help other reps or founders.
- Detailed advice requests that include market, ACV, motion, persona, and current blocker.
- Operator comments from people with real sales experience.
Avoid
- Pitching sales software, services, communities, or trials.
- Recruiting sellers or asking users to join external groups.
- Referral links, affiliated recommendations, and blogspam.
- Generic AI-generated sales advice.
What r/sales Is For
r/sales is a professional sales community, which makes it valuable for SaaS founders learning go-to-market. It is also very sensitive to vendors.
What Works On r/sales
Good founder posts ask about a concrete sales motion: persona, ACV, cycle length, objection, channel, and what has already been tried.
What To Avoid
Avoid pitching tools, recruiting, asking for trials, dropping referral links, or using AI-generated sales advice. The subreddit is for real sellers discussing real work.
Rankhog Notes
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Common questions about r/sales
Can founders ask sales questions?
Yes when the post is a genuine sales process question with enough detail and no pitch.
What works best in r/sales?
Specific, experience-based sales questions and lessons from real prospecting, closing, and pipeline work.
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