Bad leads, phoney income expectations...great training.
Pros
The training was very in depth and gives you great product knowledge. The training is also very good in regards to the "theory of sales" and how to make them. Great for a novice salesperson.
Cons
You will spend your days calling the same few hundred people four or five times each only to be told no every time unless you start in the beginning of the season...where else can 16 salespeople not make 25 sales in 6.5 hours..? The management will spend time lecturing about how technique needs to be improved even if the only calls you actually hear a prospects voice on are their answering machines. When you actually make contact you will hear either "I have told you to stop calling. Take me off your list" or " not interested" in both cases followed by a click. Why? The leads are prospects that are contacted five years ago and at least once a day every lawn season since. In fact, if they receive only one call a day they are lucky. This company's sales strategy is centered around pestering their customers until they buy to shut us up. The leads you will have will be people who refuse to do business with Weed Man not because the products aren't superior (because they actually really are) but rather because they actually HATE you.