I was hired a while back with this company to sell a personal real estate website for real estate profesionals via telephone. I had a good first interview with a gentleman over the phone and he did a good job. The training was fun and informative however they do not go into details how future clients get hits to their website. When you work in the opffice you get 2 weeks on a trial basis, they want to see if you can perform. This is reasonable and they do pay for training. The commission is quite good if you get a sale. There are 4 problem areas that I saw though.
1. During the training, they go thru the paperwork but they have you sign some weird document asking if you have published any works. I dont remember what it is called but that seemed rather odd.
2. The sales do no come fast. You can work an 8 hour day and not get a sale. I prefer consistency and faster sales. I will give them some credit their virtual tour is neat and they offer many cool features that other websites dont offer. This seems to be a good part time job but not full time it is too easy to get frustrated. Their is a base pay but if you do not perform up to standards they will more than likely let you go.
3. The problem i had was that when i went thru my presentation with prospective clients they kep asking me how do people find themn om the internet. SAM.com claims to do the marketing for them but they dont provide this key ingredient to sales team in the office. Also i was told to follow the lead of other people in office how they did the presentation. This is not done by the script.
4. They never paid me 2 full days of work. I needed that money. For someone reading this, that might not seem like alot of money but for me this was still alot and it was required by law. The bottom line is that the company left a bad taste in my mouth. I did not have a clear conscience selling their product.
As a final note, the company needs to hire better people to work in management. One gentleman told me in a private room that i needed to push the sell harder. I told him that the client said no. And to reach him later. I did not want to disprect his wishes. The manger disagreed and said a no does not really mean no. This guy had a definte problem with the english language.
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