Pros
Casual Dress...And you will get a lot better at selling on the phone. You will also be able to adapt there sales scripts to other jobs or careers and it will help you... This job is perfect for someone who wants a paid crash course in how to sell over the phone...as well as how to perform a great sales Presentation.
Cons
If you're reading this review then you are considering working for Life alert or have just started working for Life Alert. So read this carefully I will tell you everything you need to know. You probably first saw the job opening for life alert on Craigslist and the AD says you can make 85000 a year doing this job and that is true. BUT VERY MISLEADING. keep reading. This is how working for Life Alert works. You make two types of calls. 1. CAll ins- These are calls that come from people looking into the system. These people are warm leads because they have a chance to buy or at least intertested. If you get call ins you will be successful. The only people who make money selling life alert are the ones who get call ins. THE PROBLEM is you won't get many call ins until you have been there for a year or more. WHY??? those call ins are controlled by the manager who claims he knows how to sell life alert but never does and only worked as a sales rep for a year 18 years ago which means he's NOT A SALESMAN. So what does this mean so far. It means the only way to be successful at this job is to get on the managers good side and be one of the favorites. For example one week he actually gave me call ins that week I had 8 sales. I was number 3 in the whole company. When you get a lot of sales there supposed to keep feeding you call ins. But they didn't...WHY? Well because I missed the sales meeting where they call out the numbers. Ever since then they watched me and notice I was not one of there slaves and that I worked my odd hours. Immediately Call ins Stopped!!!! And if you're not getting any call ins...What are you doing? Well you're calling OLD LEADS these are people who were CALL INS but DID NOT BUY for whatever reason...And now you're calling them to get them to buy After they told another more experienced salesperson NO for at least a week straight. DO NOT let the management FOOL you into believing that they can close lead card sales or that anyone else closes lead card sales...ONE WEEK they put the sales numbers AND on this Sheet it stated how many sales people had from OLD LEADS...The highest number was 2 in A WEEK! and that was by the TOP Salesperson in the whole company...MEANING that if you're damn good you'll close between one or 4 old leads a week...That's 300 to 1200 a week. ASSUMING you don't get chargebacks!!!...To sum it up...If you're willing to NOT MAKE money for six months to a YEAR then this job is for you...If you Need to make money BEFORE six months...then DO NOT DO THIS JOB....Trust me I asked all the top salesman how long it took them before they started making good money...THE SOONEST I heard was SIX MONTHS...The difference is one thing CALL INS....Until you start getting call ins this job will not pay your bills it will only get you skills.