Where do I begin.
On paper, this job comes across as a fantastic opportunity, you work from home, basically make your own schedule and have your pay check at the palm of your hand. You will quickly realize that you have been duped.
During the reciting process, they will tell you that yes its cold calling but you are calling people that want to sign up for this product, the same thing is told during training. That is only the case for the top of the top sales reps, the res of you are calling recycled, multiple year old leads that may have bee called just two weeks before you. Some of these leads are taken from the DO NOT CALL LIST after a certain amount of time and put back into your pipeline. You are not told that in order to be successful, you need to prospect your leads outside of work.
This job is a call factory from the comfort of your own home. For 8 hours a day, you will just call, and call and call. If that is something you'd like then this job is for you. If not, and you would like to use your brain then find another job because this is as boring as it gets. You must have 3 hours of talk time a day, any less you will be disciplined, and anything less than 4-5 pitches a day (5 min conversation) will lead your manager to think you aren't putting in enough effort. It is tough to keep a 5 min conversation with someone who just said no to the service the week prior.
Overall the practices of the company do not align with my morals. They teach you to basically ignore everything the person you are speaking with is saying, in order to get to where you ask for their credit card. It is ignore, tell them why they are wrong, then ask 4-5 sometimes 6 times for their credit card at the end of this 15 min conversation. Some of these people you sign up, really don't know what they are signing up for, or how to use it but as a sales rep that is not our problem. If you like signing up people who have small business where every dollar counts, to a service that will make them lose more money than they make, this job is for you.
The service itself is beyond wrong. Management tells you to set these people up with insane high spend targets, basically making sure that these contractors get a bunch of leads and spend money. The leads they receive aren't guaranteed jobs, but they are charged for them anyway. Ive seen guys have their credit cards billed thousands of dollars on jobs they never had chance to get. The service is set up for Angi to make the most money and sometimes scam the guy you are on the phone with.
Lastly, this organization is a cult. Management worships top sales reps like they are a God. You need to be at the top of the top to have any type of success here because the "hot leads" those ones you are told about during the recruiting process, only go to the top reps. If you aren't one of them, you are set up to fail. If you don't make budget in a two week time frame, your past success does not matter, they will put you on a corrective action plan and find any which way to get rid of you.
There is a reason why the turnover rate is so high.
