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see, i disagree with the bold. I feel that the outside staff has the entire rest of the staff at their disposal. The inside guys, and usually one or more administrative assistants are there to get you any required information, and to handle your customers as need occurs
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Agree with this. Mike how is Rexel going ? I’m doing outside sales for the AB distributor here in Phoenix.
Inside sales - pretty safe job. As far as stocks go, this is a mutual fund. Safe bet, no risk. Answer phones, take orders, little to some product knowledge. Little application knowledge.
Outside sales - when you do your job, you’re not a hero, you’re just doing your job. When something goes wrong, you’re a piece of shit. But with that, comes the ability to easily make 6 figures. Outside people have to be very good at delegating tasks in order to get anything done. It would be impossible to do everything. Thats why they have everybody at there disposal. Plus they are responsible for 95% of the business income. In order to be good at this, you have to possess strong communication skills and be able to find a need in your customer. Those two go hand in hand.