Pros
-flexible work schedule -company provides car and covers costs of insurance and gas -able to stay in Hilton & Marriot brand hotels when traveling out of town -great dealer base. Easy to befriend customers and build solid relationships. -Innovative company that is looking towards the future and investing in technology -Great benefits, 401K matching program, tuition reimbursement, awesome wellness program -Industry leader and have cornered the residential garage door market. It is pretty easy to make sales on the residential side of the business. Opportunity for growth in the commercial and gate/access control portions of the business. -Able to keep employees for a long time. Many have been with the company 10+ years on average. Try to hire and promote from within.
Cons
-sales team is underpaid based on other sales positions and for the growth of the company over the past few years. The bonus structure is limited and if you go over your expected growth goals, there is no extra monetary incentives for you. -lack of communication between the field and corporate office. The office tends to make decisions and forces it on the field to implement. It would be nice to have more input on new products/processes BEFORE they were too far down the line -Other departments always say "it is not my job" so the responsibilities land back on the sales team since we are the face of the company to the customer. -Management is relying on #'s of entries into our CRM system instead of looking at #'s each rep is bringing in. This is decreasing morale and taking away from the "fun parts" of the job. -Too much paperwork and tedious work expected from corporate with no time to complete -the company is starting to be more "corporate" and saying "no" to customers more often. Both sales reps and customers are feeling this and wishing we would go back to the old days of working WITH our customers instead of just expecting them to buy more with worse promotions and elimination of key programs.