Are telesales people..

[BigJimLittleJim]

Both scenarios - they are getting by until they get a proper job, sometimes they need telling that 'tho!

I do a telesales job , and earn over £2k after tax most months. How is that not a 'proper job'

I have done field based roles previously as well and made a fair bit of money but the hours are longer.

Good for you, but there are plenty of shit telesales jobs out there, as we all know having taken calls from them - there are better careers for you, and I speak from experience of being in a desk bound job, horrible for an active young male, I personally felt trapped, much prefer self employment.

Money isn't everything, although it helps.

 

[Chancy Termites]

Good business to business telesales people are worth their weight in gold. I have nothing but respect for people who can cold call successfully long term.

 

[Grolsch30]

I got a call once from Nationwide saying that i had won a grand in the competition, I thought great.
So they made an appointment for a rep to come and see us.

It was'nt until the guy came to our door that it was not the Nationwide as in my then mortgage company but Narionwide windows and doors!

Being the polite person i am i invited him in (Big mistake), made him a cuppa and he started reeling off his sales pitch even going to his car getting minature windows to show us the quality etc..

We were actually looking to buy a new pvc door for the side of the house so we asked how much and thats when i got pissed off.
I hate being fecked around and when he mentioned his price say 1200 pounds (can't remember exactly was a few years ago), i said it was to expensive. He then got his calculator out and said if you buy now and sign i can do it for 850 pounds. Again i said thanks but no thanks to expensive he said ok i'll knock some of my commision off and call it 750 pounds but need to buy and sign today.
At this point if he#d said he would give me the door for free i would not have accepted it because no one fecks me around especially with his bullshit discounts. Bearing in mind he#d also calculated my so called thousand pound voucher in his calculations!

Anyway I then told him again thanks but no thanks and we don't want to buy anything thankyou.
Would the fecker leave!!! Nope he gets his mobile out and does the I'll phone my manager and see if he can give you a special discount!!!
He does the call or pretends to and suddenly my door only costs 500 pounds now.
Again i say no thanks and the misses looks at me and she like me is very pissed off.

There was then a kind of stand off where no one said anything and again I told him were not going to buying anything today and I think he finaly got the message to feck off and you could tell he was majorly pissed that we did not buy anything after spending a good 2 1/2 to 3 hours talking his sales bullshit.

These 2 - 3 hours me and the misses will never get back all because of a cold call i got from the Nationwide thinking it was Nationwide my mortgage lender.

Point of the story - make sure who your dealing with or better still just put the phone down.

 

[stavros]

Both scenarios - they are getting by until they get a proper job, sometimes they need telling that 'tho!

I do a telesales job , and earn over £2k after tax most months. How is that not a 'proper job'

I have done field based roles previously as well and made a fair bit of money but the hours are longer.

Good for you, but there are plenty of shit telesales jobs out there, as we all know having taken calls from them - there are better careers for you, and I speak from experience of being in a desk bound job, horrible for an active young male, I personally felt trapped, much prefer self employment.

Money isn't everything, although it helps.

Agreed.
Although money isn't everything it bloody does help.

Also I agree some telesales roles are shocking. You get the right one though that is run correctly and you train yourself and are motivated , you can do very well.

I deal with people who have completed questionnaires in the past , so it's not really cold calling as such but it's still a skill to get them to agree to an appointment .

Also do the utility warehouse in my spare time and I pretty much double my wage a month doing that now .

All about personal development

 

[TangerineSteve17]

When I realize it's a telesale, I suddenly have problems with my line.
I go "Hello?"
"Yes can you hear me?"
"Hello?"
"Yes Sir I'm here"
"Hello?" and close, and block number.

Trying to protect their feelings you see. My dad just makes a noise like he's been stabbed and then hangs up :) makes me laugh.

 

[Chancy Termites]

Best jobs are the ones where you get to do your own research and planning to find and approach your targets, using a combination of social media and email as well as phone calls to spend a lot of time chasing a small number of prospects.

I feel a bit sorry for the ones in hen houses with auto diallers just repeating the same script over and over. I can never understand how it ever succeeds anyway. We get loads of calls at work from companies in the same industry as us, trying to sell us exactly the same thing we do ourselves and yet, from the company name, it's perfectly obvious what we do. That just seems a completely pointless waste of their time and ours.

 

[Barcon]

Anybody that thinks they can phone my house in order to solicit money without paying a percentage of my monthly phone bill can go fuck themselves. Now businesses on the other hand, are a different matter.

 

[BigJimLittleJim]

I do a telesales job , and earn over £2k after tax most months. How is that not a 'proper job'

I have done field based roles previously as well and made a fair bit of money but the hours are longer.

Good for you, but there are plenty of shit telesales jobs out there, as we all know having taken calls from them - there are better careers for you, and I speak from experience of being in a desk bound job, horrible for an active young male, I personally felt trapped, much prefer self employment.

Money isn't everything, although it helps.

Agreed.
Although money isn't everything it bloody does help.

Also I agree some telesales roles are shocking. You get the right one though that is run correctly and you train yourself and are motivated , you can do very well.

I deal with people who have completed questionnaires in the past , so it's not really cold calling as such but it's still a skill to get them to agree to an appointment .

Also do the utility warehouse in my spare time and I pretty much double my wage a month doing that now .

All about personal development

What's that then? Sounds intriguing.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Anybody that thinks they can phone my house in order to solicit money without paying a percentage of my monthly phone bill can go fuck themselves. Now businesses on the other hand, are a different matter.

PM me your number, I've got a deal on tea towels

 

[Barcon]

Anybody that thinks they can phone my house in order to solicit money without paying a percentage of my monthly phone bill can go fuck themselves. Now businesses on the other hand, are a different matter.

PM me your number, I've got a deal on tea towels

We'll only need one, big guy.