TERRIBLE JOB - Good opportunity if you do not have a education but really no room for career advancement.
Pros
You can earn a decent living if you put in a lot of effort. Selling a solid product. Nice people. Decent job training. Christmas Party is pretty awesome.
Cons
Sales Rep: Commission based. Prepare to not have a life. Your on call from early AM till 8PM (You can be out as late as 1AM) and prepare to work Sat too. Costumers are tricked by the marketer into thinking that they are getting a quick and easy estimate when realistically your trying to hard sell them. The sales pitch alone last two hours and that is not including any side conversations, questions, paper work, or house inspections. You run into a lot of angry people that just want you to leave but management gets pissed if you do not make it through your presentation. You make most of your money by overselling the product so your encouraged to mark up the price as much as possible. Turn over is very high. Very repetitive. Selling Robot Field Marketer: Door to Door sales! inconsistent pay structure. Working from 11 until about 8 or 9. They cart you out to neighborhoods in vans so you can go door to door offering people free estimates (Roofing. Siding, Widows) tricking people into thinking that you just got done with a project in their neighborhood, and that your just giving free estimates to all the neighbors. Your trained to not lie but mislead people into thinking that they are getting a quick and easy estimate...They train you to say quick because 2 - 3 hours out of someones life, really isn't that long. Then you have to get that person to answer a bundle of questions about their home. The uncomfortable part comes when you have to get that customer on the phone to talk to the call center to confirm these questions, Schedule a time THAT WEEK, and to make sure that the spouse is at home, which is usually a Instant red flag for people. You can only canvass neighborhoods so many times before you run out of people who haven't been annoyed by the company. A lot of towns have even banned the company and even will ticket you if you get caught... but the company pays for the ticket so its okay..i guess. Eventually like the do not call list, there is going to be a do not knock list, so leads are definitely shrinking. The other thing that sucks is that you work when its dark, which kind of creeps out the homeowners. Walking around in the winter is also not fun, especially when people are forced out of their nice warm house to talk about windows and siding. Turn over is very high I worked at Power for a year and was very high producer. I made a decent amount of money, but i did this through misleading nice people. It is an opportunity for some people to earn a income that they might not have otherwise reached. It is very inconsistent and you will only do well if your really good at scamming people. Only top 10% make decent money. Over all a very Humbling Experience.
