I have tried cold calling before - didn't like that at all... What would be your thoughts on a car sales man role? or would you just stick with business to business sales?
Just out of curiosity what do you do for a living?
The area I live in, in my opinion isn't great for decent jobs, the salaries are below national average. Whereas as the salaries which are being offered in the major cities such as Manchester and London are much higher, for the same jobs. - for the record I have no intention on moving to London.
I work in advertising sales (currently radio, previously press).
Cold calling is a bit of a grind, but when you are calling businesses it is infinitely better than ringing consumers who really really don't want to hear from you. It's generally a part of the job unless you find an inbound only role, so if it's not for you then sales is probably not your thing. I don't mind it because if I close a decent deal that's a couple grand extra in my pay that month. That's what makes sales a good sector: you can enter higher salary brackets faster than, for instance, if you started in IT where you'd have to grind through first line on a rubbish salary first.
Generally speaking you do have to start with a telesales role, but as long as there is no auto dialler and its b2b then they are generally an easy way to earn about £27k