Luck of the Draw - Anonymous employee MemoryBlue Employee Review

2.0
Apr 6, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is a keg in the office and you make friends with people who work with you. Everyone their is a great person that is fun to be around including CEOS and managers.

Cons

The training provided is a waste of time for managers, owners, and employees. Topics covered in "Training" How to answer the phone, how to write an email, how to smile while you talk on the phone, do not use curse words, spell things correctly. Training is valuable for someone who does not have a brain in the first place. No product knowledge is offered in training because to them a good salesmen does not need to know anything about the product to sell it. Also, there is a pretty even split between people who hit quota and those who dont based on what client you are assigned to upon arrival. If you get a good client, the product sells itself and these people consistently hit their numbers and their manager looks great even though it was really the product. These are the people who sell cigarettes to people addicted to smoking and claim they sell so many because they used some line out of a guru's "Selling for Dummies" talk. If you are put on a bad client, you will be fired for not being a salesmen, even though cold calling tech companies while pushing floppy disks is a futile practice to begin with. The Wolf of Wall Street could not make some of the clients memoryBlue gets sell, so working there is like poker. If you get a good hand its pretty easy to sit and wait. But if you get a bad hand, it doesnt matter how many corny emails or stupid catch phrases you come up with, youre not going to sell anything.

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MemoryBlue Response
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Thanks for posting your feedback in this anonymous forum. We value multiple perspectives here and yours is an important one to hear. That being said, this feedback looks familiar with feedback we receive from others who didn’t love their professional sales experience and the general theme is common: sales is difficult and it must have been the training that was ineffective and too simple. This narrative goes on to suggest the *only* reason many others have succeeded in sales (at MB or anywhere) is because of basically luck and a product that sells itself. We understand why that feels good to say – it exonerates the individual from responsibility in the outcomes. But when you distill that down to the core, it shines through as hollow. The reality in sales is that what you put in is exactly what you will get out – nothing more and nothing less. Extensive training like we provide, including multi-media lessons on multiple world-renowned sales techniques, direct coaching, group sessions, role play lessons, 1x1 feedback sessions, call recording reviews, presentations and more – all of these things require an active and engaged participant. If you approached it all as if you were above any of it, it makes sense that you didn’t get much out of it. We do wish you the best of luck going forward. If you decide to stick with sales, we hope you’ll reconsider your thoughts and approach to ongoing sales training. Sales is a profession that requires a lifetime of learning and constant practice in execution – and even the most seasoned pros are still self-aware enough to know they have a lot they can add to their arsenal.

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