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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Marketing & Sales |
Is a a job in sales worth it? |
I have just graduated in Media and Drama (Laugh now if you want) from Uni. I had an interview for a Media Sales job (selling advert space on websites) last week and they've asked me in again. The money is good, 19k, with up to 30k if all targets are reached My real passion is radio broadcasting, but I feel I need to make some good money first. Is this a good career move for money purposes? Take it. Advertising is a great field. I have some experience dealing with Ad people as a client. Very exciting and challenging. Lots of nice people. Very creative. Very smart. Peace and blessings! Source(s): My more than 30 years in sales, marketing support and general management Sales is fantastic for money. If you're good at it obviously. However for stress it's a no no. There's so much pressure in salesto hit the targets set and above. You work long hours with short breaks and deal with difficult people. But it can be a good step into other jobs because of the experience you can list : Customer service Dealin with complanits and Customer issues Target driven work Dealing with heavy work loads Workin under pressure And as i said above. The money is indeed fantastic. I'd do it as a short term stepping stone. 6 months to a year. . IF you're a talker and a good salesman, sales IS where the $$ is. You're as busy as you want to be; the more sales pitches you throw out, usually the more $ you bring in. A company can NOT survive if they don't make sales. BUT, you have to like that kind of thing to be successful at it. Most people don't, because you lie a lot. If you work 40 hours a week in radio broadcasting, I can't imagine you'll make less than 20K. How much is Howard Stern making? oh, never mind. http://www.careerpage.org/ , http://www.radioearth.com/jobmain.html... , I've been in direct sales through in-home-demonstrations for 17 years. Started when I was 16. Your question depends on one major variable. How good at selling will you be? If you are an average salesman and you get involved with the right company, you will make substantially more than 30K. If you're not that good of a salesman, then take what you can get. There's no job security for a bad salesman though. I have sold $2200 USD or $2700 CND water-trap vacuums to residential customers and get more than $1000 per sale. I've sold consistently more than 20 per month for as long as I can remember. I've owned my own office where I trained salespeople and together we sold over 100 per month. Although I paid them between $300 and $600 per sale. So I personally would never accept that amount of money, but I know what I'm worth and what to sell to make the $$, plus I've trained myself to be one of the very best. In a couple months you can read all about it on Amazon when my book 'The Salesman's Bible: What to say, how to say it & why' hits the shelf. Best of luck. Stephen C. Young 17 years of Personal experience. National Award Winner in Volume Leads; demos; sales; recruiting. Youngest salesman to be hired by corporate staff at Major Corp. Paid $1000 per week plus all expenses to do consulting work (and that was a drop in pay from being a salesman). Producer of countless marketing support materials from Audio CD's to Videos/DVD's and considered a sales guru by more than 3000 sales people I've trained across North America. |
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