Pros
- worked from home office, provided w/good computer, iphone, etc. - can be a fun industry; sales aren't hard if your territory hasn't already been battered - initial paid training in Chicago was fairly helpful (although targeted almost entirely to the inside reps - supposedly they're changing it to help the OS reps, too). The trainers were good and entertaining. - some good sales materials, if you can find 'em. - innovative ideas - if they can pull off some of the concepts they are tossing around on a company-wide level, they could be pretty amazing. - provided short weekly trainings on different industries that were helpful and well done - good online resources
Cons
What a MESS. I think this could have been a pretty good job, but there are all kinds of problems. Everything is sooooo unorganized. We were supposed to have sales materials mailed to our home to be waiting on us when we got home from training. I asked for them 1-3 times every week for for months, never got any of it. Made up my own. I'd be okayed to call on a certain client/category, make the sale, do all the paperwork, and then have the deal rejected, often to see the EXACT SAME DEAL run by an inside rep within weeks. Hours wasted. We'd put new businesses coming to town in the system only to have them taken away within two weeks. Accounts would randomly be taken from one persons' list and given to the inside reps. Market was waaay oversaturated. Lead planning was a major hindrance, at least in my city. Environment in the office was catty and negative in many cases. Felt like I spent more time selling to my coworkers and trying to get my deals to run and get the OK to call on clients than I did actually selling. Really exhausting and ridiculous. Feel like my whole experience there was a fiasco and waste of time. (BTW - I was in another city, not Chicago - but I didn't want to specify which market)
