loubielou
Member
Registered: 14th Jan 07
Location: North Finchley, Greater London
User status: Offline
|
Has anyone ever done it?
Is it reallllllly boring?
|
Eck
Premium Member
Registered: 17th Apr 06
Location: Lundin Links, Fife
User status: Offline
|
Depends what you are selling. I've done a few, and it's not actually bad! If you're with a decent crowd the banter is brilliant!
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
Cut throat, fail to meet targets and you are out the door. Having to deal with people like my mum who hangs up on you and is very blunt.
|
Carl
Member
Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
User status: Offline
|
I've done it, gas and electric, to businesses though. With sales you are either good at it or your shit.
The people I worked with were the the best ever, banter was top, the job itself was crap though. Worked there 3 month, 100 ish calls a day (although spent most of it at water cooler or skiving as i hated it) sold 1 thing  .
The people who were good at it made decent money though, to be fair.
|
Kerry
Member
Registered: 5th Oct 01
Location: Norwich
User status: Offline
|
I would rather do inbound sales than outbound
|
loubielou
Member
Registered: 14th Jan 07
Location: North Finchley, Greater London
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Cut throat, fail to meet targets and you are out the door. Having to deal with people like my mum who hangs up on you and is very blunt.
thats the thing im worried about. Got an interview tomorrow and you have a basic salary and then earn commission.
If people try and sell me things i usually hang up too
|
Lawrah
Premium Member
Registered: 25th Dec 04
User status: Offline
|
I would NEVER go back into telesales. DO NOT go into telesales.
|
RyanSxi
Member
Registered: 26th Jul 06
User status: Offline
|
I wouldn't do it unless it was selling something that people want. EG sky at a really good rate/package etc. If it was some crap that I wouldn't want i'd find it hard to attempt to get people to buy it.
|
Whittie
Member
Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
User status: Offline
|
I lasted 30 mins in a double glazing one.
Plus the people that work there are proper gimps. Like Eck for example
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
thats because you have no work ethic. if your desperate do it.
|
Carl
Member
Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
User status: Offline
|
quote:
Originally posted by RyanSxi
I wouldn't do it unless it was selling something that people want. EG sky at a really good rate/package etc. If it was some crap that I wouldn't want i'd find it hard to attempt to get people to buy it.
What I was selling was genuinely a good deal because of the way the energy market works, nobody believes you anyway.
I can remember doing a lady a quote, worked out that she would save about £700 a month (They had loads of premises), she still didn't sign up. 
|
mattk
Member
Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
User status: Offline
|
not a job I could do, must be soul destroyingly boring and have no job satisfaction what so ever, I always just hang up tbh
|
Theham85
Member
Registered: 29th Nov 06
Location: Brisbane Queensland
User status: Offline
|
Does that mean you sell telly's ? 
|
Ojc
Member
Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
User status: Offline
|
I could do it with my eyes closed, but I wouldn't want to do it for more than a week unless I had to. Soul destroying.
|
Colin
Member
Registered: 4th Apr 02
User status: Offline
|
I think you'd get some ammount of abuse & I couldnt take that & would abuse back -> Sacked!!
|
loubielou
Member
Registered: 14th Jan 07
Location: North Finchley, Greater London
User status: Offline
|
its not something im looking at doing long term just if it comes to it as a temporary thing to keep the money coming in
|
Twiggy
Member
Registered: 15th Oct 04
User status: Offline
|
can be a shit of a job tbh... Although when you get i pissed off customer it quite be entertaining! which averages it out really...
As eck said depends on what your selling...
|
Russ
Member
Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
User status: Offline
|
congrats 
|
deano87
Member
Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
User status: Offline
|
Different forms of telesales tbh.
There is a place in Flitwick (near me) that does it. Students from Uni work there. They ring people up at 9pm on a Sunday etc selling shite and is totally scripted.
The 2 people at work are technically doing Telesales, but are called 'Lead generators' more. They do cold calling off of raw data, as well as following up calls and keeping on contact with people. This type of thing can also be known as "Account Executives".
Then you have inbound i.e. working for O2 or something.
You'll generally work out if you like it by what you'll actually be doing.
|
Kurt
Member
Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
User status: Offline
|
I ocassionaly cover and do telesales.. infact i was this morning.. its a piece of piss the majority of the time.. well unless someone rings up kicking off.. I got a right earful earlier for someone elses cock up and when i asked if he or the other guy could have a word they both scarpered out the office and left me to deal with it.
Redundancies are on the cards too  just got a 4 page letter.. we knew it was coming.. we had had a brief announcement a few weeks back.. but this time we have times for reviews with our managers and a questionaire to fill in to help come up with ideas.
At least my punto is on a boat and due in 3 weeks 
[Edited on 31-10-2008 by Kurt]
|
