Boiler Room

Well, as expected, New Boss had us do a phone bank. We met at 8:30 and went over our prospects, and then were tossed to the sales room floor to make our calls. Even he was making calls. There was a 200 dollar bounty for the person who makes the most meetings my COB Monday. 100 dollars to 2nd place. No "everyone else is fired" however.

You ever seen Glengary, Glenross? I just lived it.

The newer lady, who is all about bling bling, and in my professional opinion, is worthless, was running up to the board left and right writing her meetings under her name (yes, there is a score board folks). Within an hour, she had 9 meetings.

Now, i have been doing this for a year, and my cold call pitch is pretty good, and today i got two, runner got 3, older lady irish women got zero.

So, i think this chick was calling people she had already talked to...or her sales pitch was ZERO% sales. I mean, if i called and said "this is austin from tv20, we want to maybe feature your business on tv, can i come down and see whats up with you guys?" i would get unlimited meetings. But that is cheating. All those meetings you make, none will close because you dooped them You tell them its freed, then you ask for their credit card.

she can have the 200 fucking dollars. I dont give a fuck. But dont fucking cheat.

i didnt mind it too much. cold calling sucks, but once you get the voicemail (mind you we were calling at 9:30 am, so we all should be getting a lot of voicemails because no one takes calls in the morning i have leaqrned, yet Bling Bling lady seems to knock out 9/20...pretty good batting average)

Will Loman survives another day in TV station.

Side note: BEst line from Glengary: ABC...Always be closing. You call yourself a salesmen? Drop that fucking coffee. Coffee is for closers.

Bling Bling will not be getting coffee, even if she does have all the meetings and the 200 dollar bonus