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For you sales pros out there, ever try it? I am going to try their free 3 day trial and wondering if any of you sales people have ever tried it and had success. I'm in educational sales but since it's slow this time of year, I'm trying to generate some revenue from the corporate side.
If not SalesGenie, are there any other online Lead databases that are pretty good?
Thanks
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we're all in sales, and the product is us.
True dat
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Expensive and not designed well for small business batch marketing. They will make your life a living if you try and get out of the required one year contract. You can try it but you better love it to death. I would probably look elsewhere.
Isn't that what genies do though? They sucker you in but then there's always some catch that s you over in the end.
Yeah, I already decided I'm not going to buy into this after the trial is over. Someone could easily just open a phone book and makes calls without having to pay. It sucks. I would have had a more productive day dropping in on school districts and dropping off some materials.
Are you self employed or otherwise?
No, I work for a company. Just was trying to bring in some corporate accounts while schools are in and out for the summer.
For a company wide deal its not so bad but yeah its kinda like opening a phone book. I use a few good programs that are quite a bit different that SG but they're industry specific to my trade so they wouldn't help you.
I don't know of anything that would help. You company doesn't have a marketing department with generated leads?
We do, but they are only geared toward schools since that is the foundation of our business. We basically have to prove to our president that we can be profitable targeting business and government offices before they commit marketing dollars towards that. Just all part of the game that sales is. I was wanting to snag some corporate leads just to generate some additional accounts.
wha choo sellin for real?
Educational Solutions, like Interactive displays (whiteboards, projectors), Learner Response Systems, software, Professional Development, Digital Media Management, etc.
Not all of it would fit outside the classrooms, but some of the other Interactive Solutions get bought by businesses and government offices.
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You'd be surprised at how much money some of these "poor" districts in Texas spend on technology.
I don't doubt it at all. Not sure if it's not misguided at times.
But I think there's great potential with bringing the technology to the schools.
My daughter's school is requiring all of them to have IPads for next year with the ideas 1) having all their textbooks digital and 2) use interactive programs in the curriculum.
And guess what. After most of the parents already sprung for the Ipads, they won't have the text books available until next year. And my guess is they don't really have any concrete interactive activities in place.
Sounds like a noble profession.
Yeah, the digital textbook initiative is taking off. It's so much cheaper for schools to buy digital media than textbooks. Plus you see a lot more of the one to one districts where they are buying new iPads for every single student, although I haven't heard too much about schools expecting the parents to pay for them. My daughter is in private school and they are talking about the iPads as well with the idea of us parents paying for them with the cost being rolled in the tuition. We'll see how that goes. But yeah, the classroom has definitely changed since you and I were in school.
I love it. I worked in Telecom for 12 years and never felt any type of fulfillment at the end of a workday like I do now.
we'll see how it goes. of course the kids are excited about it. but I'm also concerned about the lack of monitoring by parents of what their kids are doing with the device at home with regards to the internet.
Yeah...we're having to pay for them up front but I would have rather it just get rolled into the tuition and the school purchase all the same model. Now you've got some kids with Ipad2 already griping because someone else got the new Ipad.
Career fulfillment is exactly why I went on my own. I thinks its great you can do well in outbound sales. Having done sales my whole life I know how easy it can be to burn out and resent people.
That's the catch-22 right there. Being in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) learning environment can lead to internet dangers where some students wouldn't otherwise be exposed to it but at the same time, it levels the playing field in the classroom for all the students. Parents just need to be involved more and more in their students learning and learning tools.
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