In reply to Purple Frog (Forum Supporter) :
I'm in outside sales - I get kicked in the nads once in a while and I get hugs from other customers.
You gotta love people and you gotta be prepared to get kicked. If you don't love it the job will suck.
Are you ready to make $16 one day and $3600 the next week? I've seen it both and you gotta stomach it all.
In reply to Datsun310Guy :
The key, IMHO, for any outside sales person the ability to trust the company that they represents customer service and logistics. Local delivery in under 48 hours is paramount for any final product, just in time delivery is even better. You can only be as good as the team that you represent and who stand behind what you're selling.
Otherwise your at the mercy of another company selling your widget cheaper, coming out with another widget that has an additional feature that creates a benefit that differentiates itself in terms of value, or having a large retail outlet with regional warehousing of their own purchase hundreds of millions of widgets at or near your cost, putting your customers effectively out of the widget business.
That's why on the last page I asked about the internal support the OP would have. This was not answered, and thusly I reiterate that they should run far far away, regardless of what the product is.
I'll add, I can go into 68% of licensed liquor stores within a 110 mile radius of my location and pick up a bottle that I was involved in the initial production of. I make substantial amount more than $1 per a retail unit sold and it leaves me hungry enough wanting more that I got out of the operations side of an industry where the production timeline ranges from 24 months to 17 years. Not that I'll complain about the residual income and cash flow.
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