{"id":5860,"date":"2026-01-08T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/why-you-should-reject-sales-titles-and-embrace-the-role-of-sales-expert-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:25:21","slug":"why-you-should-reject-sales-titles-and-embrace-the-role-of-sales-expert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/why-you-should-reject-sales-titles-and-embrace-the-role-of-sales-expert-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Reject Sales Titles and Embrace the Role of Sales Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hs-featured-image-wrapper\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesalesblog.com\/blog\/reject-sales-titles-become-sales-expert\" title=\"\" class=\"hs-featured-image-link\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Why You Should Reject Sales Titles and Embrace the Role of Sales Expert\" class=\"hs-featured-image lazyload\" style=\"width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.thesalesblog.com\/hubfs\/reject-sales-titles-become-sales-expert.jpg\"> <\/a> <\/div>\n<h3><strong>The Problem with Traditional Sales Titles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Many professionals go by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesalesblog.com\/blog\/how-we-are-failing-sdrs\">titles like BDR, SDR<\/a>, Account Manager, or Sales Rep. While common, these roles often reduce sales professionals to&nbsp;<strong>activity trackers<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>calendar fillers<\/strong>, or worse\u2014<strong>demo jockeys<\/strong>. None of these convey real&nbsp;<strong>value creation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" style=\"min-height:1px!important;width:1px!important;border-width:0!important;margin-top:0!important;margin-bottom:0!important;margin-right:0!important;margin-left:0!important;padding-top:0!important;padding-bottom:0!important;padding-right:0!important;padding-left:0!important; \" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/track.hubspot.com\/__ptq.gif?a=2922376&amp;k=14&amp;r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thesalesblog.com%2Fblog%2Freject-sales-titles-become-sales-expert&amp;bu=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.thesalesblog.com%252Fblog&amp;bvt=rss\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Problem with Traditional Sales Titles<br \/>\nMany professionals go by titles like BDR, SDR, Account Manager, or Sales Rep. While common, these roles often reduce sales professionals to&nbsp;act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dietdebunker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}