- The job is 100% "cold-calling". You're not a "marketing specialist" as your title would imply. You're a tele-marketer, plain and simple, and trust me when I say this- people will remind you of that daily when you interrupt their day by either hanging up on your or telling you never to call them again. I'd say about 1% of your 50+ daily calls each day will go really well (on average), so do be prepared for that.
- Hiring side of things (HR?) was not completely transparent or realistic about salary expectations. I was told that the average employee makes around $50k-60k. (Others in the office stated that they were even told closer to 70k a year). Is it possible to make this salary? I mean, theoretically, yes, but it would require a huge amount of deals which are already not the easiest come by in order to reach this salary. This isn't selling somebody a $20 bottle of perfume or something, you're asking clients to spend thousands of dollars (although some of the products are less expensive), which very few are willing to do, and very few even qualify for. In short, I don't think it's right to lure employees in by saying the average person makes 50k-60k, when in reality only the top producers of the company are even just barely scratching the surface of those numbers.