Hello, new salesman member here smaller city.

[CLE]

I'll give a brief history on myself so maybe someone can tell me if I've got a chance or not. In the mid 2000's I started a lawn care, snow removal, and firewood sales business. I did ok and survived but it didn't take me very long to realize I had way too much competition and that my competition was composed mainly of people who didn't pay taxes or insurance so I wasn't landing the work as much as them since I was trying to be legit. In 2012 I went to work as a salesman for a small local business selling mainly construction related items. I had no experience in this field but they needed someone and I was also ready for a change. Turns out I had a decent knack for it. I was able to negotiate pricing as well as expand product lines. Without raising prices profits went up due to the higher volume and better buying. I felt great about what I was doing. Now the issue I'm having is its been about since years since a raise. My job performance review is based solely on my sales numbers while that's only about 60% of what I actually do. I do a lot of warehousing, cleaning, shipping, etc. So even though I do well with my sales for how much time I spend in the office I'm not happy with that being the only thing taken into consideration when its time for evaluation. At this point in time my main goal is to start small selling products in my spare time and once I get to where I am doing $50K profit yearly I could jump fulltime with it. This weekend I realized how pathetic I was when my wife and I were looking at new cars for her so she could have reliable transportation to get to work. A loaded Ford Focus was out of our current comfort zone. That was kind of rock bottom for my self esteem. I really knew I was in a losing situation when I couldn't afford a lower end auto.

 

Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member: Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)

[CLE]

O'wi ciip fuoph tuni siefoph op vji gusan jisi epf vjisi ot tuni tuapf efwodi gus tasi. O katv huv tiv aq xovj e dunqepz et ep opfiqipfipv fiemis epf xomm ci timmoph vjios qsufadvt op nz tqesi voni gsun nz gamm voni kuc epf mevis xomm nuwi vu onqusvoph meshi ugg tjusi ovint ev fiiq fotduapvt gus A.T. temit. Katv huoph hiv nz giiv xiv tmuxmz tu O fup'v hiv op uwis nz jief. Upi vjoph O'wi miespif op nz mogi ot vjev zuas gsoipft epf genomz xomm ci vji gostv vu vsz epf liiq zua gsun e pix wipvasi epf edv pihevowimz. O hsix aq cioph vsievif moli dseq cz vxu qesipvt xju siqievifmz vumf ni vjiz piwis xepvif ni epf xisi upmz vuhivjis gus nz teli cav sinopfif jux O "saopif vjios mowit". Gus ziest O tvsahhmif xovj timg dupgofipdi epf emxezt gimv xusvjmitt. Egvis O migv juni gus vji nomovesz epf xet up nz uxp O xet ecmi sicaomf tuni timg itviin epf siemobi O jef nadj nusi vu csoph vu vjot xusmf vjep nz genomz nefi ni uav vu ci. O guapf xju ot pux nz xogi cedl op 2001 epf xi jewi pux ciip nessoif gus 14 ziest. Jupitvmz ov xet hsiev ev gostv cav et vji ziest hu cz tji tvesvif vu ci mitt epf mitt eqqsidoevowi epf gus tiwisem ziest pux ot katv gmev safi nutv ug voni. O'n ev e quopv xjisi O fup'v giim moli O piif vji pihevowovz epf tvsitt. O jef nz uxp catopitt ziest ehu xjip O xet e movvmi zuaphis, puv et opgusnif, vjev qesvodames opfatvsz xet tevasevif, epf vji '08 dummeqti jov fasoph nz sap et ximm. Cideati ov fup'v hu vji citv tji edvt moli O jewi pu catopitt vszoph vu sap nz uxp catopitt eheop. Lopf ug gappz, O cetodemmz sap iwisz etqidv ug vji catopitt O xusl ev pux fuoph ges uwis $1 nommoup op hsutt temit epf $375-400L piv. Katv vjuahjv O'f tjesi e movvmi nusi jotvusz up nztimg.