| twesterm said: I suppose if you really wanted to be a dick just contact your local news. They eat things like that up in their special investigative pieces. |
the kirby thing sounds pretty legit to me. Its a standard run of the mill sales job, except more out in the field as opposed to being in a store or office or something.
Mafoo, 1 in 6 seems a bit high as a hit rate. I doubt that if I went to 6 people, one person would buy a 1200 dollar vacuum. I think 1 in 6 seems like a good number of people that would be even willing to hear your pitch! So getting a 1:30 or a 1:40 hitrate sounds more realistic to me.
If you get 40 pitches in a week and sell one vacuum, i think that would average around 435 or whatever it is, right?
If you average it out, it comes out to be around 10 bucks an hour, which sounds right too. Its a tough way of life; you basically have to get rejected and treated like scum and punched in the face 39 out of 40 times, week in and week out.
But you know what? Having knowledge in how tough sales can be, I have a lot of respect for those salesmen. They endure a LOT in order to feed their families and to support themselves.
As for the Cutco knife thing, marketing to strangers wouldnt' be so bad. Now with the advent of craigslist, I imagine it to be easier. However, I didn't like how they want you to pimp out these knives to all your friends and family. Its lke Cutco is deliberately using your social network to make more money. On a personal level, I don't want to subject my friends/family to any of that stuff. If they want to buy it, then sure. But if they are buying it out of pity or just to "help me out," then that's not cool. I'd rather just have them give me 20 bucks as opposed to them buying a 200 dollar set of knives.
