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r/sales for lead generation

Sales professionals trading process, tools, and outreach tactics.

~280k membersOpen on Reddit

r/sales is the community for sales professionals — reps, managers, and founders doing their own selling. Discussion covers prospecting, CRM, outreach cadences, and quota pressure.

Who posts here

B2B sales reps and leaders, plus founders selling their own product.

Community size

~280k members — a large community. Use it as a general-tier sub: high reach, filter hard for intent.

Using r/sales for lead generation

A strong niche sub for sales, CRM, prospecting, and outreach tools. The audience lives in tooling debates and will name what they use and what frustrates them — high, well-articulated intent.

Buying signals to watch for
  • "Best tool for prospecting/outreach/CRM" threads
  • "How do you find leads in [niche]" posts
  • Cadence and follow-up workflow questions
  • "[Tool] alternative" cost or feature complaints
Self-promotion rules

Sales pros expect a pitch and will judge it harshly. Be useful first; a sharp recommendation is respected.

r/sales community rules

The 11 rules r/sales moderators enforce, summarised from the subreddit’s official rules page (June 2026). Read them before you post or reply — rules change, so confirm the current rules on Reddit.

  1. 01

    10 Community Karma Required to Post and Karma Farming

    Our community requires users to have 10 upvotes received on comments here before you will be allowed to create a new post or lead a discussion. Karma farming is asking for upvotes in the comments section of other users posts and should be reported to the mod team for removal.

  2. 02

    No Selling or Self Promotion

    Users are strictly not allowed to promote what they sell here and should refrain from revealing who they sell for unless directly asked. This includes offering your solution in response to recommendation request, free trials, soliciting feedback, and similar conduct. Users found breaking this rule will receive an immediate and permanent ban.

  3. 03

    No Recruiting Users

    This is not a place to recruit sales people. This includes posts inviting users to private trials 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!*

  4. 04

    No Spam, Affiliation to Recommendations or Referral Links

    Spam, affiliation to recommendations posted, and referral links will result in a ban. Company or solution recommendations are only allowed by customers of what is being recommended. Recommendations by users working for or related to what they are recommending are not allowed and should be reported.

  5. 05

    No Marketing or Blogspam

    We do allow articles but we do not allow marketing blogspam. Any post that looks like blogspam will be removed and you will receive a permanent ban. If you are the writer of an article, a full text version may be posted with identifying information removed and without backlinks to the blog. Company branded user accounts and also prohibited from posting or commenting here.

  6. 06

    No Sales Memes

    No sales memes, period! This sub is for professional sales and quality posts, and memes just don't fit in with that atmosphere. We understand the idea behind lighthearted posts, and discussions. Memes are close to zero effort, and provide less quality than we anticipate for our users. Memes are better represented in /r/saleshumor/ or r/growthmemes or /r/funny. First offense is removal of your post, and a 5-day ban. Second offense results in a permanent, indefinite ban.

  7. 07

    No Off-Site Communities

    Any attempt to create, advertise or recruit r/Sales users to join off-site communities will result in an immediate and permanent ban. This includes Discord channels, other social media sites, masterclass groups, or networking groups and associations that require payment for membership.

  8. 08

    Failure To Include Details

    If you are asking a question or for advice, include as much information and detail as you can without revealing company or personal information. Generic or low effort posts may be removed at our discretion.

  9. 09

    No Bot or AI Generated Content

    R/Sales is for real users discussing their own thoughts. Posts and comments that are suspected of being bot reply accounts or AI generated content are subject to removal and may result in a ban.

  10. 10

    Zero Contribution

    Posts or comments that do not contribute directly to a sales topic, or closely related to a sales 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.

  11. 11

    Violates Sitewide Policies

    Posts and comments will be removed and account could be banned from the sub for breaking sitewide policies. https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

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