Learn Sales Free

Money & Business

Start with Enterprise Sales (23 min, Y Combinator), then Session 4, Part 2: Negotiation Skills (64 min, MIT OpenCourseWare). All 25 lessons here are free, from the teachers' own official uploads. You'll need laptop stand, noise-cancelling headphones, second monitor and a few more basics (about $270 of kit). The book to keep beside you: The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy.

What you'll need

• Laptop stand: Screen at eye level for long study sessions.
• Noise-cancelling headphones: Focus through long video lessons.
• Second monitor: Video on one screen, practice on the other.
• Wireless keyboard and mouse: Comfortable for hours of typing.

Lessons

• Enterprise Sales | Startup School (23 min, Y Combinator, Intermediate)
• Session 4, Part 2: Negotiation Skills (64 min, MIT OpenCourseWare, Intermediate)
• The Sales Playbook For Founders | Startup School (19 min, Y Combinator, Intermediate)
• Build and Deploy a Polished AI Project and Get Sales (57 min, freeCodeCamp.org, Intermediate)
• Session 1, Part 2: Market Identification and Sales: Finding Your Customer (89 min, MIT OpenCourseWare, Intermediate)
• How to Become a Better Negotiator: Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #8 (12 min, CrashCourse, Beginner)
• How to Negotiate A Counter Offer With Your Employer (20 min, A Life After Layoff, Intermediate)
• FBI Negotiator Shows You How To Negotiate Like The RICH w/Chris Voss (27 min, Mark J Kohler, Intermediate)
• Prepare to Negotiate Your Salary (Or Anything): Crash Course Business - Soft Skills #7 (11 min, CrashCourse, Beginner)
• Are You Attracting Lowball Job Offers Without Realizing it? (Salary Negotiation Tips) (9 min, A Life After Layoff, Intermediate)
• Learn How to Approach Businesses (10 min, Carbide 3D, Intermediate)
• Sellers Now Accepting LOWER Offers: How to Take Advantage in 2025 (35 min, BiggerPockets, Intermediate)
• After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin (55 min, Y Combinator, Intermediate)
• Lecture 9: Negotiation (74 min, MIT OpenCourseWare, Intermediate)
• Closing Math Gaps with AI (42 min, Khan Academy, Intermediate)
• Closing Science Gaps with AI (37 min, Khan Academy, Intermediate)
• How to connect sales orders to purchase orders in QuickBooks Enterprise (5 min, QuickBooks, Intermediate)
• Day 1 Closing Remarks (31 min, U.S. Small Business Administration, Intermediate)
• Product update: Add items to expenses and record sales as receipts from bank feed (11 min, QuickBooks, Intermediate)
• Closing Remarks, Day II (10 min, U.S. Small Business Administration, Intermediate)
• QB Power Hour: Using Avalara's TrustFile system for Sales Tax Compliance (65 min, Hector Garcia CPA, Intermediate)
• New product feature demo: Sales tax liability reports (14 min, QuickBooks, Intermediate)
• Closing Remarks, Day I (8 min, U.S. Small Business Administration, Intermediate)
• How to increase sales during the holiday season | Ask the Expert (5 min, QuickBooks, Advanced)
• Innovation Ecosystem Summit Closing Remarks (12 min, U.S. Small Business Administration, Intermediate)

Books on Sales

1. The Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy - View on Amazon
2. SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham - View on Amazon
3. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss - View on Amazon
4. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - View on Amazon
5. How I raised myself from failure to success in selling by Bettger, Frank. - View on Amazon
6. SPIN®-Selling by Neil Rackham - View on Amazon
7. The challenger sale by Matthew Dixon - View on Amazon
8. Sales dogs by Blair Singer - View on Amazon
9. Sales management by Douglas J. Dalrymple - View on Amazon