Pros
High commission Residuals- eventual vesting Make your own schedule (sort of) Great manager
Cons
The "supervising agent" I trained under was a basket case. Rode with her to apts for 3 weeks, almost killed us on the road twice every single day. Was very condescending in the home at the office. The leads that they provide you with at first are great, you are expected to work referrals which do tend to be good leads. However they then feed you childsafe leads, they are constantly after you to get these boxes out. A family thinks that you are coming to deliver a kit to use if god forbid a child goes missing and bam you're supposed to sell them insurance. 2 months of great income but then leads dry up and youre stuck with garbage leads, driving around spending $200/week on gas trying to make $400-$500. You end up profiting $200-$300 for 45+ hours of work. Beginning I was making $700-$800/week. Then the company stops feeding you leads Training was an absolute joke. Spent 3 weeks shadowing my SA going over the same thing, same stories and traveling to regions that were 2+hours away. for 2 of the weeks I would leave home at 8-9 am and return anywhere from 10pm-11pm no joke. Had 2 in class sessions in that time, never even learned the total product line we offered and was field trained one week in to my 3 week shadow session. You are supposed to book apts in the office wherever you region is. I lived over an hour away. You are supposed to do this 2 days per week. Therefor whenever you were booking and Monday or Thursday were the best days for your lead to meet you were supposed to decline. In interview you are told that if you do 20 apts per week everything will be great you will easily make $60k. I asked if it was possible to do more than 20 "oh ya easily do as many as you want, the more the better" the only ppl that were able to book more than 15 apts/week were working with a partner and would book and travel together. It was difficult for me to book 10 apts in a week and I would spend 8+hours/week booking, trying different ppl at different times etc.. Got to a point where even the union generated leads provided by the company were close to 2 years after the lead had filled them out. EXTREMELY difficult to book these leads. You also try to book apts with existing clients to upsell them. Unfortunately these were difficult to book anyway you put it as many clients would tell me they had very bad experiences with push reps in the past and they come out year after year. The "SA" that trained me had trained 5 ppl prior to me arriving. None of them still existed in the company. I lasted 3 months. Longest out of any of them. Constantly new ppl in and out of the office, they hire constantly because ppl quit constantly. Only 4 ppl there for year+ out of 10+ employees any given time Any company that tells you that you can be in management in 3 months is sketchy no?
