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Tech Sales Course for Moms: What Actually Worked for Me
The shortest version
If you're a mom and you want to break into tech sales, here's the path that actually worked for me and now works for the women I coach:
- Download the free Sales Mom Blueprint and read it in one sitting.
- Watch CourseCareers' free intro module to make sure you actually like the work.
- Enroll in one structured curriculum (self-paced).
- Apply to 20 SDR roles with a rewritten résumé in sales language.
- Land your first offer. Take it. Grow from there.
That's the playbook. Below is the longer version with the parts most courses leave out.
What's different about being a mom
Three things change when you're doing this with kids:
Time looks different. You don't have a 4-hour evening to learn — you have 45 minutes after bedtime, twice a week. A program that respects that is a program built for moms.
Stakes feel different. A $1,500 course is rent money. The decision math has to be honest, not aspirational.
The job has to fit your life. It is genuinely possible to do tech sales fully remote, on a schedule that works around school pickup and sick days. But you have to choose the right type of company and role from the start. (Hint: bootstrapped Series A companies with no remote culture will not work. Mid-market or enterprise SaaS with remote-first DNA will.)
What I tried, in order
The free YouTube and podcast circuit. Free, decent, scattered. Took me 3 weeks to assemble the equivalent of a curriculum on my own. Worth it for $0, but not the fastest path.
A generalist tech sales course. Helpful for the framework. The résumé examples were all engineers and recent grads, so I had to translate everything to my context.
Coaching from one woman in tech. A one-time 60-minute call that completely reframed how I thought about my résumé. Probably the highest-ROI hour of my life.
Doing it. No course replaces the 50 cold calls a day. Eventually you have to start.
What the SaaSy Sales Mom Masterclass adds
I built the Masterclass to compress that journey for the next mom in line. Specifically:
- Résumé templates by source industry. Six of them — teacher, nurse, hospitality, admin, retail, stay-at-home. Plug-and-play.
- The mom-specific calendar guide. How to ramp at a tech sales job while having dependents. (Spoiler: it's surprisingly doable.)
- A live private community of women. Most of them are 0–18 months ahead of where you are. They will save you weeks of trial and error.
- Salary negotiation specifically for women with caregiving responsibilities. What to say, what not to say, what's negotiable, what isn't.
What I'd skip
- Any program promising "passive income" or "you don't even need to talk to humans."
- Any program where the upsells are bigger than the main offer.
- Any program where the community is 80%+ men under 25.
The honest cost-benefit
If the Masterclass takes me from my current salary to a $90K SDR offer in 90 days, and that role grows to $190K within 24 months and $300K+ within 4 years — the math on a $97 investment (founding-cohort pricing) is absurd. That's the math I ran on myself in 2022. It's the same math now.
Run your own numbers. Then if it makes sense, download the free Blueprint first and see if the framework fits your brain. Everything else is downstream of that.