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Can you promote in r/salesdevelopment?

An official channel of R/Sales. The go to resource for Sales Development Reps, Business Development Reps, and any sales professional focused on top of funnel. Read our rules before posting or commenting. Selling, recruiting and blog spam will result in an immediate and permanent ban.

The short answer

Do not promote or mention your product/company; contribute only by providing non-promotional, helpful answers and industry knowledge.

What works here

  • Ask and answer sales-development questions without promotional intent
  • Share detailed, non-commercial advice and experiences
  • Post non-promotional articles (subject to moderator discretion) if not blogspam

What gets posts removed

  • Promoting your product, service, company, or links
  • Soliciting customers, beta testers, trials, or recruits
  • Posting affiliate/referral links or promotional offers
  • Any selling or obvious self-promotion

Where this comes from

View the current official rules on Reddit

Self-Promoting rule

Explicit ban on promoting your business in any form; violations removed and result in instant permanent ban.

Selling Something rule

No selling of any kind; zero-tolerance and immediate permanent ban.

Recruiting Users rule

Prohibits recruiting users or inviting them to private trials/betas; leads to immediate permanent ban.

Shameless Affiliation Plug rule

Bans affiliate codes, referral links, coupons, or promotional offers that benefit the poster.

Spamming/Blogspam rules

Spamming or blatant self-promotion results in instant ban; blogspam disallowed and moderator discretion may ban.

Official rules of r/salesdevelopment

  1. 01Zero Contribution
  2. 02Failure To Include Details
  3. 03Self-Promoting
  4. 04Selling Something
  5. 05Shameless Affiliation Plug
  6. 06Recruiting Users
  7. 07Spamming
  8. 08Blogspam

Based on the community’s official rules, analyzed June 29, 2026. Rules change; the official rules page is always the source of truth.

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