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Description: Write here only if you have personal experience of working as a sales manager. Why did you decide to become one? What ... more

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Newest Review: ... more compassion for those who suffer a loss of a family member or a friend! That is just a small part of my experience as a Sales Manager and I will now give what I saw as advantages and disadvantages. Advantages of being a Sales Manager - 1. Was able to be more flexible in my profession as to hours. If I needed to be off for a couple of hours, it was easily made up at the weekends or ... more

... when having to work at night due to the nature of the business. 2. Upon becoming a Sales Manager, I actually received a basic salary and over-rides on the commissions my staff earned. 3. Greater opportunities to move higher into management with proven perf...more

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Sales Manager: Sales - Six Feet Under the Ground! (1080 words)
by - written on 01/03/06 (Very useful, 147 readings)
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I have been in a variety of sales positions for well over 13 years and for the most part have enjoyed all of them. However, there is only one that I really excelled at and quickly moved into a Sales Manager position after just 9 months in my chosen industry. In the mid-1990's, while living in the USA I was looking for a job change for what I thought would be temporary due to a couple of reasons that are really not relevant to the current review. I applied at three locations all of which involved sales and this is where the differences began to quickly stack up. A couple of the options looked really interesting while the final one, I was not sure I could ... Read the complete review

Be your own sales manager - it pays! (915 words)
by - written on 17/12/03 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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Having looked for somewhere suitable to post this opinion I have decided that this one is as good as any - after all I am my own sales manager. I grant you I am also office junior and general dogsbody but that's where working for yourself gets you! As a lot of you will already know I worked for Walsall MBC for almost 30 years and had to leave three years ago due to ill health. I now live in Llandudno with my partner, Dave, and my parents, and I am full time carer to my dad who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. I needed a way to earn some income and contribute to the family budget, partly because we could always do with extra cash (who ... Read the complete review

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