There are tons of "marketing companies" popping up in Houston (and likely many other cities) posting the most incredible sounding ads you've ever heard. Most of them fall very short of expectations if not lie completely, many I've found to be directly false advertised, even lying about the base pay.

Life lesson, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. These places need to be regulated, and possibly even penalized for trying to "sell dreams". Majority of them will not reveal anything about what you're actually doing until you've already gone through "training". You'll be given a dream speech about how your boss used to be broke but now mskes money, and then they just set you up in Walmart/Costco trying to sucker people into buying a product which is being pitched as a "premium demo", and then you just throw prices and bundles at them while trying to "be their friend".

I typically love sales, it took 4 of these garbage orientation/trainings to make me realize that this is more of an epidemic than it is a growth opportunity. If you have someone in the same position as you being appointed as a trainer within 1-2 weeks, it's merely because they memorized a little packet about "how to talk to people", and showed up to the office to be forced to stand in a room for 2 hours being preached about college being a waste of time, and being forced to play annoying games with people as "warmup exercises". The funniest thing is, the environment is tacky, and following a literal sales script verbatim never works in the sales world, where real people need to be assisted as individuals, and given a truely unique//natural experience, and assessed based on how they respond to your attitude, and what you say. It's one thing to build a rapport, it's another thing entirely to try and force it. The so-called "managers" don't seem to know a thing about management, and will simply micro-manage and criticize you for how well you waved at someone instead of how well you actually engaged them in a situation where the potential customer simply wasn't interested in purchasing a $120 massager.

If you hear an announcement in your local grocery store along the lines of "We're having an incredible giveaway, but you have to come see our super special demonstration first" just know- it's a similar deal. The giveaway will be something along the lines if a corkscrew, and you'll have to sit through 15-20 minutes of a memorized pitch about a very cheaply made product before you get it. And afterwards, if you don't buy the pitch you will be forced into 3 more pitch "attempts" where they just kept bundling more crap together for you. America. Sales used to be a profession. Now all anyone wants to throw at you is the "law of averages". Oh, and everyone wants to sound like they're a genius for saying "it's a Harvard study". Congratulations, what else did you learn from Harvard besides how to figure the average amount of times you have to try before you can sucker an individual?