re: Opinion of people who are involved in Multi-level Marketing/ Direct sales

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Had a friend I grew up with contact me about doing a "presentation for a job" selling "insurance." I don't know if it was part of his sales pitch or not, but he claimed he got his parents and sister to sign up.

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I have a small insurance agency (not Primerica) and I can tell you a lot of Insurance companies are this way. Their philosophy is hire everyone that walks in the door on a 1099 contract. If they sell something great, if not they didn't cost us anything. Grow the Agency wide. I tried that at first. However, we spent so much time training people that were horrible it was not worth the time or money. The company I contract with does push heavy recruiting. Fortunately my Territory leadership would rather us recruit quality over quantity. I refuse to bring in any warm body with a pulse for B2B sales. I have about 6 quality sales people and we are doing just fine. I feel sending the wrong people in to a business sends the wrong message and makes us look cheap and unprofessional. Having said all that, my top salesman came from Primerica. Those guys are great sales people if you can get them in a quality company and system.