Summer sales question. My son is getting recruited by multiple companies.

Jan 25, 2023
9:10:48pm

Atama Playmaker

Here are a couple he’s narrowed it down to. Fox and Grit. Anybody know anything about these? I’m sure they all have horror stories. Thoughts? Things he should ask them?

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Summer sales question. My son is getting recruited by multiple companies.

Atama

1/25/23 9:10pm

Maybe I should post this for the day crowd. Probably ton of dudes have done it.

Atama

1/25/23 9:13pm

Pesticides or Security?

Garn

1/25/23 9:15pm

Pesticides

Atama

1/25/23 9:15pm

Grit is definitely an appropriate name for a summer sales company…

Heath Squashwell

1/25/23 9:27pm

Where does he live? So many places are hiring he might make more staying home

Bobmarleyjr

1/25/23 9:32pm

He loves sales. He has had his own D2D sales business since 13. He wants to see

Atama

1/25/23 9:36pm

That would be like finding a good mlm. If it is a good business they don't have

johnnybyu

1/25/23 10:26pm

LOL. A lot of my old summer sales buddies sell enterprise software via direct

OKchief

1/25/23 10:34pm

This is my son’s thinking as well. He thinks sales is everything in all work.

Atama

1/25/23 10:37pm

I went the finance route and have done well. Most of my old sales buddies

OKchief

1/25/23 11:05pm

Sales skills are great and I have no doubt good D2D sales people would be

johnnybyu

1/25/23 10:40pm

I couldn’t disagree more. And everyone I know that sells B2B now would disagree

OKchief

1/25/23 11:12pm

I'm guessing there's a little bit of both.

Eddie

1/26/23 9:56am

Mind if I ask what they are offering? Sorry I don’t know about either.

delbert

1/25/23 9:33pm

I think maybe around 30% of the contract.

Atama

1/25/23 9:37pm

Make sure he likes door to door sales before he does it. A lot of kids try sales

BlooCoog

1/25/23 9:36pm

He loves it. Been doing it since he was 13. He could still washout but prob not.

Atama

1/25/23 9:38pm

Keep enough money available for the flight home. Also, I think some of them

BYUFBDAD

1/25/23 9:39pm

I can imagine that crap happening. That’s why I’m so interested in helping him

Atama

1/25/23 9:43pm

it's important too that you lay the groundwork that there's no problem getting

BYUFBDAD

1/25/23 9:46pm

What’s their nil like?

1984coug

1/25/23 9:48pm

My son worked for Grit last summer. They were absolutely awful. Truly dishonest

sammycoug

1/25/23 9:58pm

A couple thoughts

OKchief

1/25/23 10:14pm

BM sent.

Atama

1/25/23 10:38pm

My son is with Vantage which has been really good. He did well enough to manage a few teams and over the 4 summers he

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