Sales tin exist rough. Some reps deal with difficult days by going for a java or listening to music. I'm e'er asking what salespeople's most effective motivation-boosting techniques are.

One of the most popular responses? Scrolling through funny sales memes, and brusque videos, or having a little fun with their e-mail subject lines. Here are a few of my favorite sales jokes. Hope y'all get a nice little chuckle out of them.

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Sales Jokes

1. When they tell you they need one more week to think it over … on the final week of the month.

Source: GIPHY

2. Underperformers

A sales manager was addressing an underperforming sales team at the start of a new calendar month:

"We are going to have a sales contest this month. The winners will go to enter next calendar month's competition."

Source: ThinkAdvisor

3. "Sorry, I didn't get your phone call"

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Source: Pinterest

4. "Yeah ... she should be"

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Source: Medium

v. Overworked Office Director

Salesperson: "This computer volition cut your workload by fifty%."

Role manager: "That'south neat! I'll take 2 of them."

Source: ThinkAdvisor

6. "Your car ran off the road, your house is overrun by fire ants, and your identity has been stolen?"

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Source: Me.Me.

seven. The "beginner" approach

A young salesperson peeped into the office of someone who looked like a sales manager, muttered something, then started walking away. Later retreating a picayune he seemed to change his mind and headed back to the door -- where after some hesitation, he started to dorsum away again. The sales manager, feeling sorry for the swain, and surprised that he was so badly trained, called him in.

"Y'all're a salesperson aren't you? What are you selling?"

"Sir ... uh ... yes ... I'thou a salesman. I'thou sorry to bother you. I was selling insurance, just I'm sure you don't want any. Sorry to accept wasted your time."

Feeling distressing for the young bungler, the sales managing director bought ii policies to requite the young salesman some confidence and then started educational activity him about selling. He said: "You should have different pre-planned approaches for different kinds of—"

"But I do, sir," the young salesman interrupted, "the one I simply used is my planned arroyo for sales managers. It ever works. Thank you!"

Source: WorkingHumor

eight. Wishful thinking

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Source: LinkedIn

9. I like Jim Carrey's mentality meliorate

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Source: Sales Sense of humour

ten. Improvise. Conform. Overcome.

A salesman was demonstrating unbreakable combs in a department store. He was impressing the people who stopped by to look past putting the rummage through all sorts of torture and stress.

Finally to print fifty-fifty the skeptics in the crowd, he aptitude the rummage completely in one-half, and it snapped with a loud crevice. Without missing a beat, he bravely held upwards both halves of the "unbreakable" rummage for everyone to see and said, "And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what an unbreakable rummage looks like on the inside."

Source: Workjoke

11. When your prospect actually has a good objection.

Source: GIPHY

12. Since we're all dog lovers at HubSpot (part ane)

The entire North American sales force of Frisky Dog Food was gathered together for their national sales convention at Miami Embankment. In the great auditorium the marketing manager was giving a operation that any revivalist would have been proud of. Using the sometime design of telephone call and response, he was really working up the spirits of his sales squad.

"Who's got the greatest domestic dog food in North America?" the marketing managing director asked.

"We take!" the audition replied.

"And who's got the greatest advertising campaigns?"

"We accept!"

"Who'due south got the most attractive packages?"

"We have!"

"Who's got the biggest distribution?"

"WE Have!"

"Okay. So why aren't we selling more of the production?"

One bold voice from the crowd replied:

"Because the darned dogs don't similar information technology."

Source: Desicomments

13. Since nosotros're all dog lovers at HubSpot (role 2)

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Source: Sales Sense of humour

14. Is that all?

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Retail Jokes

15. Thank you, next

funny-sales-jokes Source: Pinterest

16. "I'm just looking, thank you."

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Source: Sales Humour

17. Passion for my job

"I love my sales chore, it'southward the piece of work I hate."

Source: SalesJokes

18. When you sell the customer no one else thought was fix.

Source: GIPHY

nineteen. As they should exist!

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Source: Pinterest

20. You hateful, "I have to bank check Amazon to run across if they have it cheaper?"

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Sales Puns

Please forgive me, these are truly terrible just completely necessary.

21. "Always trust a glue salesperson. They tend to stick to their word."-Unknown

22. "The salesperson claimed the shoes were made from alligator, but I knew it was crock."-Larry Levin

23. "With some cashiers, things are wearisome to register." -Unknown

24. "I was fired from my job selling amplifiers considering I didn't achieve the sufficient book of sales." -Unknown

25. "I used to sell Velcro, but I couldn't stick with information technology." -Unknown

26. "I'chiliad nearly done making jokes well-nigh unemployed salespeople but they still demand some work." -Unknown

At the end of the day, though, well-nigh salespeople only want 2 things:

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Originally published Apr 4, 2019 4:27:00 PM, updated March 24 2021