sales representative

entry level sales representative

sales representative entry level

sales

entry level customer service representative

Vector Marketing

A typical day at work is how you want it to be. If you want to do well you would want to wake up early in the morning, call some customers you were referred to, set up as many appointments as you can, go to these appointments and sharpen customers knives or show them a presentation on CUTCO cutlery.

I learned the difference between low and high quality knives, how to talk in front of big groups of people, time management skills, the value of hard work, building rapport with customers, and closing a sale.

Management was great, always a phone call away if you had any questions. Initial training is structured well and within 3 days of training your qualified to do presentations on your own.

Co-workers were awesome, mostly college aged individuals, a few high school students and some older individuals as well. People who have worked at the job longer try to help out newer Sales Reps.

Hardest part of the job for me was rejection. Going through the effort of making a lot of calls and sometimes setting up no appointments or setting up a bunch of appointments, but not selling anything.

Most enjoyable was the times that hard work paid off, set up a bunch of appointments, make a few sales and qualify to go on one of the company trips, I got to go to the factory in Olean, NY where Cutco is made, I got to stay in Vancouver in the Fairmount Hotel (and got lots of buffets, food is awesome), and I got to go white water rafting twice, to name a few.

This is a job primarily aimed at students, but could frankly be done by anyone. The job and company it self are legit but have some sketchy aspects to them. The job is to sell knives, not door to door, but to close family and friends. Earnings are a flat amount payed per client appointment and commissions earned from the sale of the product. The bulk of your earnings are probably going to come from commissions, which increase over your sales career. This job has the potential to make you a very handsome amount of dough, but the truth is that this job is not for everybody and few will excel in this work and make big money. Management loves to micromanage and expects you to call them before and after appointments and let them know if a client appointment changes. You're required to have weeks of scheduling prepared ahead of time and continually inform them of your plans. Given that this is a sales job the workplace culture is mainly centered around receiving incentives for selling lots of product, participating in selling competitions with prizes, and pressure from management to sell sell sell. Management teaches you to sell and demand you follow their exact teachings and not to alter them in the field.

It was a really productive team we had, really competetive and fun, cool little office where everybody is giving hi fives left right and center.
I learned a lot over there, how to communicated effectively on the phone, I learn how to speak with confidence.
My co-wokers even supervisors where really friendly, and they cared about us.
A typical day at work was as followed: I get in, I say hello to every body that is there. If when I walk in they happen to train the sales people, who ever is running the training or interview, will let me speak in front of the crowd, which was fun, because I was the guy the brought them there in the first place.
Of I go set up on my station. I had a goal per hour, and me and co-workers, where focusing to get the job done. wE USE TO ENCOURAGE ONE AND OTHER, WITH NICE WORDS, AND MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES.

The hardest part of the job was when you called many people, but there are all busy, and you go straight to there voicemail. I consider it hard because =, you where not really productive.

The mos enjoyable part was the banter during the breaks. whether you where having a good or bad day didn't matter, you still had a good time.

The job itself was not to scam people, but the employees were sure manipulated when hired. To get in, just show up for the interview. To do well, you need to be 100% great at being personable and persuading people to give you money. The pay is far less than the hiring manager promised and the work requires a lot of unpaid hours of clientele-building at home. I did fairly well and won a lot of prizes (the company was always reluctant to give out cash), and since I did not myself pay for the $150 start-up kit I didn't lose any money. Vector Marketing has been sued multiple times.

The whole job was independent, I acquired clientele (pyramid scheme starting with people I knew) via phone on my own, traveled to their houses and presented products for over an hour. It was a grueling job, but it had its fun moments.

Since I was told I could "keep my chair" (they do this to make it appear employees stay longer than they do), I technically still work for Vector Marketing and can make sales and submit order forms to them. I do not, however, actively work this job anymore.

I’d like to start by saying that this job requires a lot of  time management and it can be hard to balance with schoolwork and a social life. Secondly, you have to know a lot of financially well-to-do people to make sales, which is not the case for everyone. The base pay is not enough when scaled with the effort put into presentations by the sales representatives. In order to make a decent amount of money you’d need to dedicate a huge portion of your time to making calls and presenting. The manager is always messaging you asking about how many calls you made for that day and it made me feel like I had no space to myself due to excessive and unexpected messages. I could have made more calls had I not been required to attend the 2:30 hours team meetings where you barely discuss anything. 

From the moment you walk into the main office, you feel welcomed with friendly smiles and encouraging words to have a hard-working productive day. Each member of the management team, including former co-workers, were all friendly and make coming to work/training enjoyable to attend.
Hardest part of the job was keeping up with constantly calling potential customers & travelling great distances for booked appointments. 
Most enjoyable part of the job, other than consistently working in an up-lifting environment with many friendly people, was the work hour flexibility. I created my own schedule by appointments which assisted in building time management, organization, and independence.

I was a receptionist, so compared to the salespeople I had it easy. I made calls to phone numbers collected by applicants (their friends, families, etc.) and offered them all positions in the firm. 
The sales people however were trained in sneaky sales manipulations (much like all sales, really) and sent out to sell knives to anyone and everyone they knew. 
The vast majority of people sold one or two things or nothing at all, just left the office one day and never returned. 
Those who were very good at sales made a lot of money and advanced quickly within the company. 
Because of this rapid advancement based solely on sales, management was a mess. The manager and assistant managers had no idea how to run an office. 
This may be different depending on which branch you join, but mine was poorly managed and shifty (money paid under the table or not at all, etc.).

The typical day of work wasn't so typical. Time was set aside for making calls and slowly expanded your customer network. And every week, one day of said week, was spending a couple hours at the work office to see how you and the others of your similar standing were doing in respect to each other. I learnt how to present certain products and how to go about introducing myself to a potential customer, to making a sale. Management was something that we had to deal with everyday, they would see us at the weekly meeting and if we were having troubles they would assist us. My co-workers and I never saw each other, except for the weekly meetings, but they were nice enough to try to get to know. The hardest part about this experience was that it felt more like a big competition against everyone, and the clock was constantly ticking down to the end of the day when your sales were done for that day.

I would prepare myself with all of the knives that I had to present, then go to the customers house after making a phone call and setting up an appointment. When I got to their house, I would start with small talk then get straight into business, following the booklet and presenting the knives. I would then follow up with demonstrations of how the product works, allowing the customer to do the same to get the feel of the knives. If they like it, I would then fill out order forms for the knives or accessories they request. My co-workers were friends that I went to high school with, so it was enjoyable meeting up with them at the meetings. The hardest part of the job was making sales but the most enjoyable was demonstrating how the product worked.

if you are someone who really likes interacting with people and discussing things like kitchen accessories, different companies and which one is better, apple or Samsung etc, and giving people a brief clarification about your product, then vector is your ideal place. Vector is not the cereal company, this company deals with kitchen accessories. Mainly knives. Your job would be to book appointments with people (parents) and go to their houses and do a little presentation that would demonstrate how the knives you have are better than the knives they have!

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