r/sales: rules, audience and how brands can post there
612,487 members. Self-promotion allowed? No. Permanent ban.
r/sales is a community of about 612,000 sales professionals. Its promotion rules are among the strictest we read: selling or promoting what you sell gets you an immediate permanent ban, and company-branded accounts can't post.
Paste your draft on the next page. We flag likely self-promotion and rule problems before you post.
- Members
- 612,487
- Self-promotion
- No. Permanent ban
- Created
- 2008
- Checked
- November 7, 2026
What r/sales is
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.
Sales tooling companies that want to understand how reps talk about their work and don't expect to promote there.
Can a brand post in r/sales?
Rule 2 bars users from promoting what they sell and says they should refrain from revealing who they sell for unless asked. That covers offering your solution when someone asks for a recommendation, free trials, and soliciting feedback. Breaking it means an immediate permanent ban. Under rule 4, only customers of a company or solution can recommend it. People who work for it or are related to it can't. Rule 5 bars marketing blogspam and says company-branded user accounts are prohibited from posting or commenting. You need 10 comment upvotes in the community before you can post. For a brand, this is a community you listen to.
What works
- Reading and learning: the top posts of the past year are personal stories and discussion from working salespeople
- Commenting as an individual practitioner with real experience, once you meet the 10-karma requirement
- Recommending a tool only if you are a customer of it, as rule 4 requires
- Asking questions with enough detail, which rule 8 asks for
What gets removed
- Offering your product as the answer to a recommendation request
- Free trial offers, requests for feedback or invitations to private trials
- Company-branded accounts and referral links
- Marketing blogspam and attempts to move members to off-site communities such as Discord
The rules, summarised
- 1. 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. No Selling or Self Promotion
Promoting what you sell is banned with an immediate permanent ban, including offering your solution when someone asks for a recommendation.
- 3. 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 .
- 4. No Spam, Affiliation to Recommendations or Referral Links
Recommendations are allowed only from customers. People working for or related to the thing recommended may not post them.
- 5. 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.
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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. 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. 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. 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. Violates Sitewide Policies
Posts and comments will be removed and account could be banned from the sub for breaking sitewide policies.
Source: the community's own rules page, read on November 7, 2026. Rules change, so check the page before you post. See also the 9:1 rule.
Frequently asked questions
Can I promote my sales tool on r/sales?
No. Rule 2 bans selling and self-promotion with an immediate permanent ban, and rule 4 allows product recommendations only from customers.
Can a company account post on r/sales?
No. Rule 5 says company-branded user accounts are prohibited from posting or commenting.
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