So glad I can respond. I read all the negative comments and still went to "see for myself." When I did the 1st interveiw, it was with an attractive lady and it took about 15 minutes. The 2nd interview was to ride with someone to an assigned area, park the car, and walk the streets (90 degrees in a suit no exceptions, stopping by every business we saw). Our task was to just show up unexpectedly and try to sell quill products to a company that is functioning fine without them. Then if they were busy and only wanted a catalog or a business card, we could not do that, so no one trusts us. If they are, and trust people on the street without business cards with their account number, Notch can definitely save them much money around 20-30%. As most people don't trust salesman in these circumstances, the sales are few. Yes, there are two forms of payment to employees . . . Base + Commission, and Commission only. The trick is that no one gets a dime without making 8 sales in a week, including those who opt for base pay ($400) Then as many areas have been milked in charlotte, most have areas outside of charlotte and they have to drive their own cars daily filling up with gas that would eat about a third of the base pay with a fuel effecient vehicle. They get reimbursed for gas at tax time, not by the company, but a simple write off of about .55 per/gal. As you can see the job sucks this is why the have to spend money advertising for employees and those who have too big of an ego pretend they have been hired when they werent or they were and failed miserably just like everybody else. About 30 people stand up in a room with about 7 chairs doing so called training in the morning which is simply discussind sales techniques and when somebody gets lucky enough to meet the quota. If they can do that for a few weeks, then their job becomes the recruiting, human resources, trainer, manager etc. That seems easy as the pay increases, but then training (business trips that last a week) becomes a necessity and then thay have to move outside of the districts where they market to become a manager stuck with the task of suckering intelligent people in. Obviously I wasn't there long enough to find out what i really wanted to know, the reputation of the owner. You be the judge of this peculiarity, but the owner, the manager, and the top sales person live together in a so-called temporary apartment. What do you think will happen when business slows down here in charlotte . . . I don't know, but I have my suspicion that about 27 people won't have a job. Oh yeah, only young, recent college graduates would knowingly buy into this travelling regime. Also, the trainer also makes profit if you do well when you sell . . . pyramid.
