r/salesdevelopment rules, stats, and what to post

A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/salesdevelopment: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.

Members: 25,919
Community age: Created Sep 2015, 11 years
To post: No minimum in the rules
To comment: No minimum in the rules
Self-promotion: Banned
Links: Allowed with conditionsAffiliate and referral links are banned. Blog writers may post full text versions of articles without a link to the original page.
Promo risk: HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts

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Rule summary

Zero Contribution: Posts or comments that do not contribute directly to a sales development topic, or closely related to a sales development topic, will be removed. This includes questions about marketing, HR/workplace related issues and generalized questions already answered by other threads or in the Wiki.
Failure To Include Details: If you are asking for advice, include as much information and detail as you possibly can without revealing company or personal information. Failure to do so may lead to removal of your thread.
Self-Promoting: This is not the place to promote your business in any form. Any and every post promoting a business, in any capacity, will be removed and will result in an instant, permanent ban. This includes self-promotions of your services, contacts, and associations of the like. *No Exceptions*!
Selling Something: No Selling of Any Kind This is not a place to sell any of your stuff. We have zero-tolerance for abuse on this sub. Selling results in an immediate, permanent ban, no exceptions.
Shameless Affiliation Plug: By posting here, you agree that you have no connections to the sites where your submissions originate. This includes, but is not limited to: affiliate codes and referral links, coupons, or promotional offers that benefit you, et-al. No exceptions! Breaking this rule results in an instant, **permanent** ban.
Recruiting Users: This is not a place to recruit sales people. This includes posts inviting users to private trials or beta testing for software or other tools/services/platforms. There are other subs for that such as /r/hiring or /r/salesjobs or /r/betatests . This is a *zero-tolerance* policy, and will result in an instant, permanent ban. *No exceptions, contesting, and absolutely no reversals of this ban will be considered!*
Spamming: Spamming, or blatant self-promotion, will result in an instant ban. Keep the conversations on /r/sales appropriate. Spamming gets zero-tolerance, so be forewarned.
Blogspam: We do allow articles but we do not allow blogspam. Any post that looks like blogspam will be removed. If you are the writer of the article, a full text version may be posted without a link to the org page. This will be under the moderator's discretion, and may include an indefinite, permanent ban; no exceptions!

Works well

A detailed breakdown of a cold outbound sequence you ran, including the exact steps and what happened, posted as plain text with no links
A specific question with full context, like the market you are calling, the volume you are hitting, and the exact point where you stall
A full text write up of something you learned about qualifying leads, with no link back to your site
A discussion about a top of funnel tactic where you describe your own results and ask how others handle the same step
A help post that names your role, your situation, and what you already tried, written so nobody can identify your company or the people involved

Avoid

Posting any link that promotes your company, because “Self-Promoting” triggers an instant permanent ban
Dropping a referral link, affiliate code, or coupon, because “Shameless Affiliation Plug” is zero tolerance
Pitching your product or asking people to DM you about a trial, because “Selling Something” and “Recruiting Users” both mean permanent bans
Posting a blog article with a link back to your site, because “Blogspam” removes it and can get you banned
Asking a vague question like how do I get better at cold calling, because “Failure To Include Details” can get the thread removed
Asking about marketing or workplace drama, because “Zero Contribution” covers those topics and will get the post removed

What r/salesdevelopment Is For

This community is the go to resource for sales development reps and business development reps. It is also open to any sales professional focused on top of funnel work. It is an official channel of R/Sales, so it sits inside a bigger family of sales communities. The people here talk about the daily work of finding and qualifying leads, and they expect posts and comments to contribute directly to a sales development topic or something closely related. Questions about marketing, HR and workplace issues, and general questions already answered in other threads or the Wiki get removed. The description is blunt about what never belongs here: selling, recruiting, and blog spam lead to an immediate and permanent ban.

Rules That Matter Before Posting

The rule that decides everything here is “Self-Promoting”, which bans every post promoting a business in any capacity, including promotion of your services, contacts, and associations, and hands out an instant permanent ban. “Selling Something” backs that up with a zero-tolerance policy on selling anything. “Shameless Affiliation Plug” means that by posting you agree you have no connections to the sites your submissions come from, so affiliate codes, referral links, coupons, and promotional offers that benefit you are banned. “Recruiting Users” blocks recruiting sales people, and it also blocks inviting users to private trials or beta testing for software or tools, with an instant permanent ban and no reversals. “Blogspam” removes anything that looks like blogspam, though the rule says a writer may post a full text version of their article without a link to the original page, at moderator discretion. On the content side, “Zero Contribution” removes anything that does not relate directly to sales development, including marketing questions and generalized questions already answered in other threads or the Wiki. “Failure To Include Details” can remove your thread if you ask for advice without including as much information as you can without revealing company or personal details.

What To Post

A good post here is a detailed question or a discussion that helps reps do top of funnel work better. If you are asking for advice, include as much detail as you can about the situation, your role, what you have tried, and what specifically you are stuck on, while leaving out anything that identifies your company or the people involved. If you have written something useful, paste the whole thing into the post as full text with no link back to your site, and understand that the moderators still decide if it stays. If you are a founder, come with real experience from doing sales development yourself, not with a pitch. Share what you learned, ask a sharp and specific question, and keep it strictly on topic. There is no path here that leads through links, offers, or invites, so everything you contribute has to stand on its own as text.

What To Avoid

Do not promote your business in any form, because that is an instant permanent ban with no exceptions. Do not sell anything, even casually, because selling brings the same ban. Do not share affiliate codes, referral links, coupons, or promotional offers that benefit you. Do not post recruiting messages or invites to private trials or beta tests for your software, because that rule has zero tolerance and bans are never reversed. Do not drop a link to your own blog post. If you wrote the article yourself, the rule says you may post a full text version with no link to the original page, and the moderators decide. Do not post about marketing, HR, or general topics that do not connect directly to sales development, and do not re-ask questions that are already answered in other threads or the Wiki. Finally, if you ask for advice, pack it with detail, because thin questions can get removed.

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Common questions about r/salesdevelopment

Who is this community for?

It is for sales development reps, business development reps, and any sales professional focused on top of funnel work.

Can I mention my product at all?

Selling and self-promotion both lead to an instant and permanent ban, and the rules state there are no exceptions.

Can I share an article I wrote?

Yes, but the rule on blogspam says you must post the full text with no link to the original page, and the moderators decide whether it stays up.

Can I invite people to a beta test or private trial?

No. The rules list /r/hiring, /r/salesjobs, and /r/betatests as the places for that.

Can I use a referral link?

Affiliate codes and referral links are banned, and breaking that rule is an instant permanent ban.

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