December 2, 2016 / como / 0 Comments
The 6 Worst Sales Jobs (and why you need to avoid them — at all costs)
In this entry I’m going to run through what I think are the 6 Worst Sales Jobs you could be in. I’m going to encourage you to avoid them, or, if you’re already in one, encourage you to get the hell out as quickly as possible.
Because here’s the thing …
* The economy is suckin’ it right now …
* and it’s probably not getting better anytime soon.
A lot of companies (even big ones) are downsizing, or they’re flat out going under.
* A lot of folks in sales are looking mighty hungry, and more than a little desperate and panicky anymore.
I personally know guys who were pulling down $25K a month in sales commissions a few years back … who are now having a hard time making their car payments and are starting to worry about losing their homes.
And here’s why:
* They’re in the wrong market.
* And they’re operating from the wrong model.
And even if they were in the right market, even if things were going “good,” they’re miserable, overworked, overstressed, trapped in sales careers they should have been rethinking long ago.
They’ve been chasing the buck.
And for this, they have been sacrificing what is far more important:
* Lifestyle.
* The six worst sales jobs …
So let’s run through what I consider the six worst sales jobs out there.
You might be looking at one of these as an option …
Or you might already be in one of them.
(I was at one time or another in all of them. With varying degrees of success and failure. And damn miserable most of the time. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally figured out the right way to build a sales career. And I’ll come to that. But first let’s look at the wrong sales jobs, the ones you should avoid like the plague.)
If you are one of these kinds of sales jobs, I’m going to encourage you to start re-thinking your life.
* #1 Worst Sales Job: Loan Officer (i.e., Selling Home Loans, Selling Mortgages)
Let me start with a confession.
I gave the mortgage business a shot some years ago — and I sucked at it.
I got caught up in the whole “mortgage consulting” approach, buried myself in learning everything imaginable, studied all of the “gurus,” bought into all of the “systems” and “services,” stayed up late and got up early studying an endless arsenal of “materials” and attended “seminars” constantly … and I still sucked at it.
And a good thing I did.
Not only did the market fall out from under the entire profession in the past few years, wiping out thousands upon thousands of jobs in the industry (and leaving everyone left standing shell-shocked and desperate), but more importantly …
* It was a good thing I got out when I did, because even if I had succeeded there, even if the economy hadn’t tanked, I would have been miserable in the mortgage business. WHY?
Going into an office every day.
Wearing a suit every day.
Dealing face to face with clients every day.
Dealing with appraisers and underwriters and processors and insurance companies and accountants and real estate agents … wrestling with rate sheets and program requirements, locks and deadlines, market fluctuations and government regulations … and the endless sprawl of documentation …
That was the worst part of it. Dealing with all that goddamn PAPERWORK.
Oy!
The amount of paperwork and the sheer, unadulterated grief, you have to go through to close a home loan — and all of the endless crap that can trip up the process and turn what looked like a slam-dunk closing into a whirling nightmare of missing documents and pissed-off clients and hair-trigger land mines that can blow up at any second …
All to close one deal.
(Maybe.)
Sigh … No — that’s just not for me.
That’s not the world I want to be living in every day.
* #2 Worst Sales Job: Pharmaceutical Rep or Medical Supply Sales
Here’s another one I looked at once, and another I’m damn glad I avoided.
Last I checked, you have to sell about $1M annually to pull down a $70K salary as a medical supply rep.
Sell a million bucks a year. To make seventy grand.
Now, what they try to sell you on is the idea of “residual” income — build up accounts, they keep buying enough Band-Aids and tongue-depressors from you every month, and after a while you have it made.
What they don’t tell you is how goddamn hard it is learning about the 10,000 different kinds of drugs (or worse, gauze and rubber gloves, chemistry panels and reagents, scalpels and test tubes) … going out there every day, dropping in on an endless string of offices, trying to set up appointments with doctors and practice managers who have been conditioned and trained to treat you like dirt and make your life as unhappy and frustrated as humanly possible … All for the privilege of selling them soap for their bathroom dispensers …
The sheer hours you have to put in, and the grief and rejection you have to fight your way through to actually succeed in this kind of sales job …
Forget it.
Again — I’ll pass.
* #3 Worst Sales Job: Anything Corporate
If it involves an office (or worse, a cubicle) …
If it involves a time clock (or someone questioning why you’re a half hour late, or leaving a half hour early) …
If it involves putting on a monkey suit every day …
If it involves having to spend your time flying (or driving) around the country, meeting with people you don’t like …
If it involves tip-toeing around a boss or an office manager, or any form of kissing someone’s ass while hoping for a “promotion” …
Man, if that’s the kind of “sales” job you’re in, I’ve got news for you.
You are in the rat race.
And here’s the news flash: Your job is NOT secure.
And if you are not already a chronically-overworked, alcoholic, multiple-divorcee, borderline-suicide … you’re probably headed in that direction.
You might want to get off that merry-go-round while you still can.
* #4 Worst Sales Job: Anything Involving Sticking Signs On Your Car (or hanging signs on a Street Corner)
Now we jump to the other end of the spectrum.
I’m going to lump a few things into this one.
If you have magnetic signs on your car or your phone number printed on your back window …
… if you are hanging up your business cards on bulletin boards hoping a prospect might see them …
… if you are trying to pressure friends and family to set up “meetings” for you to share some “opportunity” …
You are in the wrong sales profession.
What falls into this category?
* Trying to run your own small, locally-based business. (Too much grief, too many hours, too little profit.)
* Trying to convince people to join the latest Multi-Level-Marketing scheme. (Oh, man. Don’t get me started.)
* Trying to sell real estate, or dealing in whatever it is the guys selling seminar tickets call “real estate investing”…. (Um … have you seen what’s going on out there?)
In any sales career like this, where you are reduced to employing these kinds of tactics to try to scrounge up prospects — and where everyone else involved seems to be smiling too damn much, and not very convincingly — I hate to say it, but you are likely operating from a position of desperation.
You are operating on hope.
And last I checked, hope is not a negotiable currency the bank recognizes.
* #5 Worst Sales Job: Anything Involving Standing Around Somewhere Waiting For Business.
My first sales job was selling carpet. I was probably worse at that than at trying to sell mortgages.
Here are the hard facts. Standing around waiting for customers to drop in is not a reasonable approach to trying to provide for yourself and your family.
Again, with the economy the way it is, and with more and more people shopping and researching their buying decisions online … The world of retail sales has become a world of Barely Getting By — If You’re Lucky.
And even the guys who are lucky and are getting by … they’re working 60 hours a week, living paycheck to paycheck.
Nope.
Again — not for me.
* #6 Worst Sales Job: Anything Involving Bugging People When They’re At Home
Tele-marketing and door-to-door sales have to be the worst. They’re only at the bottom of my list here because I have the least experience with these. Never done either, thankfully.
If you’re calling on people at home when they don’t know you (and don’t want to know you), whether you are ringing them on their phones or knocking on their doors — you are in the wrong career, pal.
You’re not in the sales business. a[euro] You’re a public menace.a[euro] So just stop. a[euro] There’s a better way.
* What WOULD Make For a Great Sales Career?
I’ll be going into this in detail in another video, but in short …
1.) A great sales career would NOT involve anything like the crap jobs I’ve been talking about so far.
2.) Instead, a great sales career would allow you to get up when you want, work when you want and however much you want (and certainly no more than 10 or 20 hours a week if you didn’t want to), and without question work from home or really from wherever you want — in fact, work from anywhere in the world you want.
3.) And more important than anything, a great sales career would not only bring in a substantial six-figure income, it would also allow you the luxury of enjoying an extraordinary lifestyle at the same time.
And you can be sure I’ll be talking more about that in the next video and accompanying article I put together.
You can check them out (and get my latest free report) at:
www.mavericksalesguy.com
December 1, 2016 / como / 0 Comments
For a long time now, Spain has been the destination for thousands of emigrants who leave their home in search of the Good Life. From fresh-faced students to retired statesmen, people have flocked here in their droves, in order to set up a home and learn Spanish.
But why is Spain such a popular place to live?
Weather
The sunny Spanish weather is a famed draw for tourists and emigrants alike. While there are places here that experience quite rainy conditions for much of the year (the northern areas, for example), most of Spain basks in wonderful sunshine, especially during summer when it comes a beach-lovers delight.
Variety
Spain is primarily known for its major cities and its magnificent beaches. Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia and Bilbao are all great urban destinations (especially for those who like to indulge in the cultural bustle of big cities), while much of the east and south coast is taken up by mile upon mile of simply idyllic coastline.
In a few select places (Barcelona and Cadiz, say), the urban fun and seaside relaxation meet with aplomb. As a result, these are extremely popular places to set up home in, especially if you can secure living quarters in enigmatic parts of the city. Barcelona apartments in the Barri Gotic, for example, may come at a premium, but theyre well worth the cost, given their surroundings and the proximity of the Barceloneta beach.
Cost of Living
For a European country, Spain is famously easy on the wallet. Day to day life here comes at a pittance when compared to other similar sized countries in the continent: food is cheap, alcohol is cheaper, and even housing is happily affordable (in terms of apartments Valencia, Seville, Madrid and Barcelona all offer a slew of well-priced and available places).
Attitude to Life
Probably the major reason behind Spains appeal to foreigners looking to move overseas is its fun-loving attitude to life. Theres a shared reluctance to do anything too exertive here; life should be spent in cafes on plazas, sipping coffee or drinking beer (preferably with the beach in sight).
Spain is also a country thats known for its love of the fiesta (party). Fiestas tend to start close to midnight, and carry on well into the sunlit hours of the next day. All in all, their friendly indulgence comes to symbolize all that is so good about this exciting and beautiful South European country.
November 27, 2016 / como / 0 Comments
Emergency situation can arrive at your doorstep any time and without intimation. Such situation may make you short of money, if you dont have sufficient earnings as well as previous savings. In that circumstance, youre left with no other option except to borrow some money from the financial institutions. Many lenders nowadays offering short term finance plans called door to door loans.
The doorstep loans are available to the customers on easy terms. You need not to produce collateral or your previous credit record to a lender for this purpose. You therefore can apply freely for small cash, even if you dont have a clean credit record. Doorstep advance is offered through online mode. Therefore, first you have to submit loan application form on the site of a lender. After 24 hours of application submission, cash will be in your bank account. The money, which will be approved to you, is between 500-2000 pounds. The tenure of the short term advances is 2-4 weeks. However, to get cash under these debt plans, you must possess the following qualifications:
a.Youre an UK national,
b.You have attained the age of 18 years on the date of loan application,
c.Your monthly compensation should not be less than 1000 pounds &
d.You have a valid bank account.
You can enjoy the advance fund according to your own requirements. You can buy a new DVD player, handset, electrical fan with this money. Alternatively you may repair your
existing household items pay the installments due of your new flat, deposit the monthly school fee of your children etc.
However, some companies charge very high interests on the small cash borrowings. You may therefore look for a cheap short duration lending plan either on internet or other sources. Some UK payday loans companies are also offering time flexibility option in their small cash borrowing plans. Therefore, if your monthly salary might be delayed due to some reasons, you may opt for flexible payday advance.
November 23, 2016 / como / 0 Comments
The rate of online shopping has grown exponentially in the last few years, and has become the norm for many people the world over when it comes to purchasing the products and services they use in their everyday lives. But not everyone is sold on the concept that online shopping is easier than in-store shopping. If you are one of these people, examining the drawbacks and benefits of using an online payment solution to make your purchases might help you decide if shopping via the internet is for you or not.
Drawbacks
Some technological know-how is required. If you want to shop online with the least amount of problems, you will have to possess some computer and internet basics, such as how to use a computer and the internet (chances are that you have this ability if you are reading this article), how to search for and compare stores and the products they sell, and how to complete a transaction with an online payment solution. Not having these simple skills can make the whole process long, tedious and more effort than its worth.
The perceived or actual risk of getting hacked. Wherever there exists the request for personal and financial information (like on e-commerce websites), there also may lurk hackers looking for ways to get at this information. The aim of this article is not to scare you away from online shopping, but to let you know that there are inherent threats that you should know about so that you can make a more informed choice.
You usually have to open an account. Just about every online shop will ask you to open an account with them. If they are using a third-party online payment solution, then you will have to open an account with that company as well. The purpose of this is not to make online payments tiring and annoying, but to make your subsequent payments instant and easy.
No human contact. This can be seen as both a drawback and a benefit, depending on the kind of person you are and how you feel about the task of shopping. Though as a drawback, you will have to be fairly independent when shopping and paying for your product online, so you will be expected to be at least minimally technologically-able.Benefits
Convenience. You can shop and pay for your products from the comfort of your home, in your pajamas, with a steaming cup of tea or coffee at your side with the help of an online payment solution. You dont have to spend hours running from store to store to find the best deal as you can do this in minutes from your desktop, laptop, smart phone or tablet. You also dont have to deal with teenaged mallrats with nothing better to do but loiter and sip overpriced iced coffees.
Speed. Searching for and comparing products, and paying for them can take under an hour, depending on what youre looking for. No longer will you have to dedicate entire weekend days to your shopping excursions. This can free up a lot of your time.
Security. Despite the risk of fraud and theft, you can shop online very safely if you use your common sense. Many reputable e-commerce sites and their online payment solutions can make your shopping experience as secure as an in-store one. Just take a little time to read reviews about the merchant and their products.
Flexibility. You can pay for products through an online payment solution with credit card, debit card or e-wallet, whichever is most convenient for you.
November 21, 2016 / como / 0 Comments
The best features for selecting a house for purchase need few considerations and they include the few basic features that are often overlooked by the buyer. The main four aspects there are the power management, the water supply management, the Location facility and the pollution free location.
Power Management
After coming from the office with a great workout, the body needs some fresh air outside and some cool air at the house. After coming back to the house, if one finds that there is a power shed and he or she is not going to get that cool air, but will have to face the warmth and have to sweat again, then the mind gets charged up with anger and the entire evening is lost. The substation attached the power rooms in the villas with support of Digital generators for meeting the power shortage. The water supply in the old cities is so irregular that sometimes people have to come down to the streets to get water from the road side water lines. The waters available there are neither hygienic, nor are good for drinking. Thus the city dwellers have to pay huge amount for the water taxes and then also pay for the drinking waters. Still then the unhygienic water supply and the sanitary system cause great diseases every year. The Ajnara Belvedere is the best solution for that as they are providing the best facilities for the purpose.
Free of Pollution
Who not wants to breathe the fresh air after coming through the tremendous pollution of the main city? Who not wants to have a peaceful sleep after a hard work throughout the day at the office? The city is absolutely free from pollution with the extreme greenery all around. The Market place chaos and the daylong sounds of the vehicles is the perfect chaos that makes the dwellers life unbelievably miserable. But they also need the market at close location and also the terminuses. The Ajnara Belvedere is a great solution to the problem as it is providing all the amenities at the finger tips of the dwellers and that also in an environment which is free from all type of pollution.
Location facility
The market place and its nearness to the house is surely an additional advantage for the house and the householders. The chaos of the market place is basically an adjacent facility of the market. But to avoid the chaos even having the market at the near location is possible only in the planned cities. The Ajnara Belvedere are built at the west gate of the Noida in the Ajnara sports city, where the markets are such well planned that the chaos is not to be heard from outside.