kirby vacuums

[*Ace* 10+ year member]

Lol, I worked as a vacuum salesman for over a year. Half of it selling Tristars, and the other half selling the Kirby's. I was pretty successful too. Let me tell you right now, this is NOT an easy job man. Get prepared for 60-80 hours a week, and probably not much pay for the first month.

The first month is the hardest. It takes at least a month to get a groove on things and start selling consistantly depending on your skill level. The average pay for a GOOD salesman when I worked was about $2,000-$5000 a month. If your a shy person, get over it quick. This is not the job for shy people. However if you are shy, this job will do loads for your confidence if you can last.

Here are some tips: Pull lots of dirt!!! I'm serious,100-150 pads per house minimum. The more dirt they see the better your chances of selling it. Get their objections out early. Ask to buy 25 times during the demo at least. This allows you to overcome there excuses and find what their real objection is. The sooner you find their real objection the better!!! Don't be afraid to ask them to buy at the end, this is a huge mistake newbies make.

There's lots of money to be made if you put in the effort and have the skills. Some skills can be learned through experience, but it helps if your a natural salesmen. Selling vacuums door to door is said to be one of the hardest sales jobs. Good luck.

Oh yeah..... Kirby > Dyson

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

I used a Kirby to paint a house once, worked pretty good not a whole house just a wall.

I had a Co-worker that used to do house to house sales for them, Some of the stories he had were funny shit.

I never used a Dyson sp? But I hear they are pretty good too.

But hey Kirby can paint your house!

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Phantom owner here, which has never let me down. They don't make them anymore, so if it shits, I will be looking into something new, but going on 15 years now with no problems.

 

[shaneb 10+ year member]

Lol, I worked as a vacuum salesman for over a year. Half of it selling Tristars, and the other half selling the Kirby's. I was pretty successful too. Let me tell you right now, this is NOT an easy job man. Get prepared for 60-80 hours a week, and probably not much pay for the first month.
The first month is the hardest. It takes at least a month to get a groove on things and start selling consistantly depending on your skill level. The average pay for a GOOD salesman when I worked was about $2,000-$5000 a month. If your a shy person, get over it quick. This is not the job for shy people. However if you are shy, this job will do loads for your confidence if you can last.

Here are some tips: Pull lots of dirt!!! I'm serious,100-150 pads per house minimum. The more dirt they see the better your chances of selling it. Get their objections out early. Ask to buy 25 times during the demo at least. This allows you to overcome there excuses and find what their real objection is. The sooner you find their real objection the better!!! Don't be afraid to ask them to buy at the end, this is a huge mistake newbies make.

There's lots of money to be made if you put in the effort and have the skills. Some skills can be learned through experience, but it helps if your a natural salesmen. Selling vacuums door to door is said to be one of the hardest sales jobs. Good luck.

Oh yeah..... Kirby > Dyson

I appreciate your input man, I think I am going to pass on this opportunity. The main reasons being the time put into it, the commission thing, and the sales tactics...

I can work for 9 dollars a hour for 12 hours a day and make 620 a week, and have a steady paycheck and know I will pay my bills.

I just don't want to go sign an apartment lease on a job that I may or may not make enough to pay for it.

Also, I'm not a salesman, in all honesty, the training brought a lot out in me, but I will not be happy doing it at all.

Furthermore, I don't like the tactics, I think they are dishonest and a bit too pushy. I don't want to be put in a situation where I have to sacrifice my ethics to "make a sale." And they would have me do that...

I also have to find a way to take 9-12 hours of classes while doing this work for a non-gurunteed paycheck....

If kirby is the best of the best (which, at this point, I have no reason to think it isn't) why does kirby choose to use such forceful, pushy and dirty tactics to selling their product..to stay true to the tradition? It just doesn't make sense...

However, it is an amazing vacuum, if you give me a retail vacuum and a kirby vacuum, I can show you a dozen reasons why your Bissel, Dyson, Dirt Devil etc. Is no where near as good as a unit.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

I don't know why I came in here, women and their vacuum talk is annoying.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

a few of my friends di it for a while, after like 3 mths and no money they quit. Wait till you sell one, get paid, then a week later the people return it and you get a negative paycheck

 

[18inchjeepin 10+ year member]

Lol, I worked as a vacuum salesman for over a year. Half of it selling Tristars, and the other half selling the Kirby's. I was pretty successful too. Let me tell you right now, this is NOT an easy job man. Get prepared for 60-80 hours a week, and probably not much pay for the first month.
The first month is the hardest. It takes at least a month to get a groove on things and start selling consistantly depending on your skill level. The average pay for a GOOD salesman when I worked was about $2,000-$5000 a month. If your a shy person, get over it quick. This is not the job for shy people. However if you are shy, this job will do loads for your confidence if you can last.

Here are some tips: Pull lots of dirt!!! I'm serious,100-150 pads per house minimum. The more dirt they see the better your chances of selling it. Get their objections out early. Ask to buy 25 times during the demo at least. This allows you to overcome there excuses and find what their real objection is. The sooner you find their real objection the better!!! Don't be afraid to ask them to buy at the end, this is a huge mistake newbies make.

There's lots of money to be made if you put in the effort and have the skills. Some skills can be learned through experience, but it helps if your a natural salesmen. Selling vacuums door to door is said to be one of the hardest sales jobs. Good luck.

Oh yeah..... Kirby > Dyson

Sold for a yr, and have used about every vaccum made uptil 2007

long hrs

I made $1800 one week and $0 the next

Royal was invented by Kirby's bro

Kirby is king /thread

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

Hoover > all others

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

Hoover > all others

Wrong, Eureka > all. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[SicAudio 5,000+ posts]

good choice you dont want to rob ppl anyway i don't think. royal's trash a kirby all day.

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

I love it when they stop by. fvck yeah! Of course you can vacuum my stairs!

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

I love it when they stop by. fvck yeah! Of course you can vacuum my stairs!

Haha, good point.

 

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

I went in and was offered the job, they were hush hush about what the job was untill after my interview, I laughed at them and walked out of the interview the second they told me it was door to door selling. the ad in the paper said it was a customer service job.

 

[Ken448 10+ year member]

they are all disguised that way OR "Manager"

 

[m3dia_lab 10+ year member]

i tried to sell them, figured out it was not for me....

people were getting paid big though.... its good if your good at sales...