Just a little background info:

I'm 21 years old, education goes as far as high school diploma and some college classes. I've worked in electronic retail sales for 2 years now. I worked at Best Buy selling cameras for 3 months on seasonal help, then moved over to Sears where I worked over a year and a half selling TV's, cameras, stands, etc all electronics. They shafted me and fired me for a BS reason so I switched over to CompUSA where I was hired as a Business Sales Representative for all of one month. After that one month, they announced they were closing all stores. So as we wind down on product for the next 3 or 4 weeks before we close I find myself needing to start looking hardcore.

So here I am again looking for a new job. At CompUSA I sold laptops, desktops, tv's, cameras, etc. I didn't really know too much about computers when I first started but I'm starting to get the hang of it and all the technobabble. So now I ask, is there any money in wireless sales? It just dawned on me this is a huge field and there must be some profit in it if there are so many opportunties available. Anybody in wireless sales give me advice? I don't know anything about phones, is it something that can be picked up easily or should I already have experience? Any advice would be great, or even other suggestions

thanks,

Andy

 

Hey Andy,

WOW, you have a similar route like me when i was younger.

1. I started out in sales at Best Buy when I was in college. CarFi/Stereo, worked there for less than a year and got let go due to using my EPPI for a friend, one of the installers told on me. During this time working at Best Buy, a customer bought a set of 6.5" for his Supra at the time. He was actually the dept supervisor for a Sears at one of the local malls. After I got let go, I contacted him at sears and worked there for about 2 years in division 57. I moved to a different school (UNT, University of North Texas to SWT, Southwest Texas State in San Marcos, Tx about 20 min from Austin, Tx). I worked at that Sears for little over a year and made some good money for a college student. THe Sears store there was so big that Division 57 and division 20 ( i think that was for vacuums) were seperate. One day I got bored and helped out a co worker sell a vacuum to this guy that was wearing a Samsung jacket. He was coming in to buy a 100$ vacuum for his maid and ended up leaving w/ a 400$ vacuum w/ a 3yr warranty . He gave me his business card, which was Sprint business card, he owned his own cell store. I contacted him a few month later and he got me in contact with his wife which at the time was the INdirect Channel Mananger for the Austin area. She gave me a temp position working on a sales team that went to different stores to help boost Sprint sales. Well to end things up, 7 years later and alot of work, today I own 2 of my own franchise Sprint stores.

http://forums.s2kca.com/showthread.php?t=1...ermark+wireless

 

L@L I noticed a trend here... I used to work for Best Buy before I started at Cingular Wireless. I've been in wireless sales for about two years. I was the information representative at my location and was one of the personal representative for the Disney account in the whole district(Non-business side of course *Darn sprint and their BB). I personally would rather disclose information through IM instead of here. I'd be more than happy to answer any of your questions. lmk

 

ok well i'll just post them here and anybody can answer here or IM me if they like

1) is it strictly commission?
2) is it a good hourly wage?
3) anybody that has worked in wireless, which one and were they good to you?
4) is it difficult to learn all the phone stuff if i have no prior knowledge?
5) make you meet strict deadlines and goals?

i guess that's all i can think of right now

 

lol oh what the hell..

Company: Cingular/AT&T Wireless Corp.

1. Hourly + Commission (YMMV on Corporate or authorized dealers)
2. $12+ depending on experience
3. Union was good, overall company treatment was decent but I wasn't satisfied with upper management YMMV
4. Very easy to learn about phones but then again I was a phone geek.
5. Attainable goals if you try. It's easy to sell phones but the real profit is new activations and features.

The last 6 months working at Cingular made me realize the job wasn't for me. I wanted to be in a position where I can help benefit someone than to sell some feature they never would use.

I enjoyed:
1. Getting to tinker with all the new phones
2. Free service + unlimited everything for yourself & cheap service for family and friends (Limited to two lines)
3. Established Disney account and got to leave the store to the happiest place on earth few times a month
4. Good benefits +401k

I disliked:
1. Sales pressure and quotas (Obviously)
2. No customer loyalty as usual
3. Retail hours
4. Retail in general