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I am thinking of working from home for the Utility warehouse.
Do any of you work for them, I would love some feedback of your experience, good or bad please.
Do any of you work for them, I would love some feedback of your experience, good or bad please.
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My good lady worked for them for about two years. It all depends on how big you want to grow it. If you want to generate a 'full' income then there is a lot of hard work involved (and you must be prepared to travel to your prospective clients).
My wife only wanted a nice, steady, smallish income from it and was really enjoying it. However they then started to push her to attend weekly team meetings and then area meetings (usually monthly) which she wasn't to bothered about going to - but they did up the pressure to the point where she said 'enough is enough' and resigned.
As I say it depends how much you want from it, they are a good company (we still have all our energy, phones, broadband with them and their customer services are excellent) but be prepared to work hard.
(I'm off to work shortly but will look in later).
My wife only wanted a nice, steady, smallish income from it and was really enjoying it. However they then started to push her to attend weekly team meetings and then area meetings (usually monthly) which she wasn't to bothered about going to - but they did up the pressure to the point where she said 'enough is enough' and resigned.
As I say it depends how much you want from it, they are a good company (we still have all our energy, phones, broadband with them and their customer services are excellent) but be prepared to work hard.
(I'm off to work shortly but will look in later).
I watched their online sales video.
It's commission-based sales, where you have to introduce new customers to buy UW services. The company seems to have a decent product that has become established, and it is a large FTSE250 company. This route to sales is just their preferred business model of acquiring new business and new customers.
If one is persuasive over the phone and willing to work hard there seems to be no reason why you can't make money out of it.
The real financial benefit arises over a longer period of time, as sales people continue to earn monthly commission on a small percentage of the money earned from customers paying their utility bills.
There is a small pyramid-selling element to this process, because if salespeople introduce new sales people, the introducer gets a very small percentage of additional commission earned on the sales created by the person they introduced. That, if it was the principal source of income, would be pyramid-selling - but it is only a small element of the commission-based system.
I've never worked for them - understanding businesses and business processes is part of what I used to do.
It's commission-based sales, where you have to introduce new customers to buy UW services. The company seems to have a decent product that has become established, and it is a large FTSE250 company. This route to sales is just their preferred business model of acquiring new business and new customers.
If one is persuasive over the phone and willing to work hard there seems to be no reason why you can't make money out of it.
The real financial benefit arises over a longer period of time, as sales people continue to earn monthly commission on a small percentage of the money earned from customers paying their utility bills.
There is a small pyramid-selling element to this process, because if salespeople introduce new sales people, the introducer gets a very small percentage of additional commission earned on the sales created by the person they introduced. That, if it was the principal source of income, would be pyramid-selling - but it is only a small element of the commission-based system.
I've never worked for them - understanding businesses and business processes is part of what I used to do.
Good luck loulou - keep us updated from time to time please.
Just as a tip - you have to find your own leads, so start with family, then friends and then hopefully that will widen your target market.
And one final thing before I shut up - You need a certain number of fully signed up 'customers' before you start earning any commission (used to be 12 I think). Your Team and Group leaders will give you lots of help in getting to that number but, to a large extent, it is because when you start on commission, they also get their commission increased. Hence the system/pyramid builds.
But, Good Luck, nothing ventured, nothing gained - and you can always stop should it not be right for you.
Just as a tip - you have to find your own leads, so start with family, then friends and then hopefully that will widen your target market.
And one final thing before I shut up - You need a certain number of fully signed up 'customers' before you start earning any commission (used to be 12 I think). Your Team and Group leaders will give you lots of help in getting to that number but, to a large extent, it is because when you start on commission, they also get their commission increased. Hence the system/pyramid builds.
But, Good Luck, nothing ventured, nothing gained - and you can always stop should it not be right for you.
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