r/sales

Sales and Selling

Everything you need to know about sales, selling, business development, lead generation, prospecting, closing and more! Recommended books are linked in the menu and sidebar. Read our rules before posting or commenting. Selling, recruiting and blog spam will result in an immediate and permanent ban.

Members: 609,234
Created: 2008
Posts a day: 7
Avg comments, top posts this week: 91

r/sales is a Reddit community with 609,234 members, created in 2008. It averaged about 7 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts had a median score of 41 and an average of 91 comments each. Sales, work and interview are the words that show up most in recent titles. This month's top posts went up most often around 14:00 UTC, and most often on a Wednesday.

Only approved members can post in r/sales.

Data checked October 18, 2026 · Open on Reddit

What people ask

229Do you know anyone making $1,000,000 a year on a w2 sales job? What do they sell?576 comments · October 8, 2026
252Those pulling 300k a year or more - what is the pathway to utilizing a sales career for high income?309 comments · September 20, 2026
127Dude how are people getting decent sales jobs??295 comments · October 2, 2026
174Can a bad territory ruin a good salesperson?203 comments · October 7, 2026
207Insurance sales is a joke, right?193 comments · September 19, 2026
147Where are the cold calling pros147 comments · September 18, 2026

Common words in titles

sales 15
work 6
interview 4
ask 3
call 3
cold 3
job 3
jobs 3
role 3
those 3
advice 2
believe 2

Best time to post

14:00 UTC · 4 top posts
16:00 UTC · 3 top posts
17:00 UTC · 3 top posts
Wednesday · 6 top posts
Friday · 5 top posts

These are counted from the timestamps of this month's 25 top posts. They show when popular posts went up and don't guarantee reach.

Rules

10 Community Karma Required to Post and Karma Farming
No Selling or Self Promotion
No Recruiting Users
No Spam, Affiliation to Recommendations or Referral Links
No Marketing or Blogspam
No Sales Memes
No Off-Site Communities
Failure To Include Details
No Bot or AI Generated Content
Zero Contribution
Violates Sitewide Policies

How to post in r/sales without breaking its rules

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Member growth

We started recording r/sales member counts on October 18, 2026. Growth will show here once we have a few weeks of history.

Get this data from the API

Every number on this page comes from ChatterAPI's Reddit endpoints and is refreshed about once a week. You can pull the same data for any subreddit from your own code or AI agent.

curl "https://chatterapi.com/v1/reddit/subreddits/sales" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CHATTERAPI_KEY"

{
  "data": {
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/",
    "name": "sales",
    "nsfw": false,
    "title": "Sales and Selling",
    "createdAt": "2008-05-29T19:34:48.000Z",
    "description": "Everything you need to know about sales, selling, business development, lead generation, prospecting, closing and more!  \n\nRecommended books are linked in the menu and sidebar. Read our rules before posting or commenting.  \n\nSelling, recruiting and blog spam will result in an immediate and permanent ban.",
    "subscribers": 609234
  },
  "credits": {
    "charged": 2
  }
}

Recorded response, October 18, 2026, trimmed.

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Questions about r/sales

How many members does r/sales have?

r/sales had 609,234 members when we last checked on October 18, 2026.

How active is r/sales?

Based on its newest posts, it got about 7 new posts a day over the last month. This week's top posts averaged 91 comments each.

When is the best time to post in r/sales?

This month's top posts in r/sales went up most often around 14:00 UTC, and most often on a Wednesday. That's when popular posts were published, so use it as a starting point, not a rule.

Can I get r/sales data through an API?

Yes. Call GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/sales for members, rules and description, and GET /v1/reddit/subreddits/sales/posts for its posts. Each call costs 2 credits, and new accounts get 100 free credits.