It was a love / hate relationship with my job at Equinox
Pros
The upside is, if you are a truly great salesperson, you will get a lot of enjoyment out of selling a great brand that you believe in. You get to workout for free, as you will get a free membership to all the clubs. You get amazing discounts on everything in the clothing shop as well as the health spa. Great ways to sell more product by knowing how to sell it by personal experience. The shop sells more because members can see what it looks like on, by you wearing it to work. The atmosphere is a fun one! There are great people who work there and the music is always playing great tunes, even BEFORE you hear them on the radio.
Cons
The challenges are, that once you have sold memberships for that particular month, management doesn't allow you that extra time with your members to properly "on-board" them. So you feel as if you have created a nice connection with this person and were there every step of the way, until they joined and then you were off trying to get more sales for the next month. It is a bad business plan. You create a trust with this person and then you just cannot spend time with them. There are a lot of times when the "rules" are changed all of a sudden for that particular sale. One person can "give" this with membership or sell a certain way, while others cannot do the same. Management has you create a lot of broken promises just to get the sale. You will get a lot of the management saying "you are the best, you are the hero, you are our best salesperson here!" Yet, the next month, if you don't have a sale right away, it turns into "what are we doing wrong here, why did you do it this way, have you called the person, let's sit down and practice" It is the most bizarre way to manage. They manage by fear rather than by praise