Pros
• It’s fun & it’s easy. To elaborate, I got in touch with with Talus and three days later I had a tablet & was assigned to work the next day. My manager closed a sale the very first day I started. It got paid out like 30 days later. Lol. But he closed the sale none the less.
• I can be a reserved personality. It was easy working with Talus because the merchants were already groomed to see the video & to talk about the service. You see a lot of business owners. I enjoyed this aspect of the business. I don’t have to persa pitch the machine & close the sale. My manager did all the convincing. I was relieved bcs he was good at it.
• Commissions get paid in a reasonable amount of time after a machine has been activated. If you install today, it has to be before 2pm for you to be paid tomorrow excluding Fridays.
• The job is Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm on paper.
• Legit! The company does provide leads.
• You get paired with a corporate manager. I personally like mine. This person owns skills I’d love to learn. The manager is professional, well spoken, firm, engaging, and intelligent. No doubt that the full knowledge of the business is understood. Your manager is responsible for talking you through droughts & keeping you focused. Awesome insights that have been provided to me have helped closed the deal. Behaviors have been suggested to help produce or to install. My manager I feel is effective although not all managers I’ve spoken to are this professional. Honestly, this manager has a talent & is a great closer.
• Bonuses: $500 at 5 activations of fast start is is cool.
• $200 per installation. If you charge the processing fee, you get $30 in addition. Sell the 30 day free debit pin, that’s $50.
• Bonuses would be cool if they didn’t require so much money to be invested before you see a return. Sometimes the return doesn’t cover cost: $400 (8 act), $500 (10 acts), and so forth.
• It’s laid back. I was able to handle errands in between runs/appointments.
• No micromanaging.
• No meeting and no required conference calls. It’s just you, your manager, and your appointments. Easy.
• Contact with Talus employees is easy. Most of them are very friendly.
Cons
• Commissions that come from activations after 2pm today are not paid tomorrow. They are paid the day after tomorrow.
• Commissions: This deserves its own bullet. If you install at 2:01pm on Thursday, you don’t get paid on Friday, Saturday, nor Sunday. It fell on a Monday for me. Talus says because it was a small bank I work with. Otherwise it’d pay out on Saturday. Commissions on Friday before 2pm, followed the same schedule. And activations after 2pm on Friday were paid on the next heart-wrenching Tuesday. I hated that! That’s 5 days of processing!
• Bonuses: $400 at 8 activations is not cool bcs it barely covers the investment of gas money. They are processed the 2nd Tuesday of the month & paid out the second Friday.
• You invest a ton of money in gas with no true incentive or return without closing those sales & getting them installed. If you don’t install you don’t get paid.
• You can go a long time without pay if you don’t get your deals installed.
• You need to have a reserve on gas money and/or be a closing beast and or have a manager that can actually close deals. They have base pay. You don’t.
• You never meet any Talus employee(s). That can be a con too when you need to have something done. Your corporate manager is your only tie.