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Waterboarding: The Newest Sales Training Technique

Started by Karoli · 1 year ago

Holy cow, folks. By now you all know the Firstline saga, but what you don’t know is how cult-like the sales ‘training’ was from on high. Weekly DVDs, setting everyone against each other, putting impossible goals in front of salesmen and then berating groups that underperformed — never mind that they were dropped […]
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  • Nick moreno

    3 months ago

    I saw your Headline and thought I'd read some amusing article about sales training. I could not believe it was for real. What were these people (all of them) thinking?
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  • L. Lee

    2 months ago

    I am really disappointed in Prosper. I know first hand about their underhanded, high pressures sales calls. What really upsets me is they use the name of Robert Allen to promote the Prosper Products. Robert Allen is supposedly very well respected and definitely successful. They promised me on-on-one coaching, weekly assignments, professional seasons resource advisors to assist me by phone, and that I could easly be making $5,000. monthly inside of three months. I got no coaching and no weekly assignments. Some resource advisors readily admitted they had just started with the company and had very little experience. I was talked into purchasing a 50" TV to sell on eBay promising I could turn it around in as little as three days for a substantial profit. I had never worked with eBay before. The resourse advisor didn't even know how to set a "reserve price" for the auction. Further, I know now that one first needs to build up a rating with eBay before trying to sell big ticket items. I now have a large screen TV sitting in my master bedroom closet I can't sell without a major loss. We already have two large TV's, didn't need another one. Numerous calls to Prosper got me nothing, but more lies and excuses. Also, more high pressure sales calls telling me I could get what I'd been promised if I just laid out a few more thousand dollars. Save yourself a lot of stress and money. Don't sign up! Check the Utah BBB. Prosper has hundreds of compliants against them for false advertising, failing to meet their promises, and bogus materials. Similar companies report numerous compliants from previous Prosper customers. I followed up with a compliant to the BBB. Prosper has promised to cancel my contract and refund my money. We'll see if that happens!!! Wish I'd done my research. I could tell you lots more!!!
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