First day in tele-sales and I sold nothing!

Gosh, writersedge. I am very sorry that you have had a tough day in your job of tele-sales. It sounds like your work is quite stressful and perhaps, difficult! I admire your tenacity to keep trying. I am not that familiar with tele-marketing types of jobs. Do you have sales quotas to meet or are they flexible with that? This is a tough time in terms of the economics of our country to be calling peoples' homes and trying to sell them something. Surely your bosses are aware of that. Yes, I have had many tough days in my work life over the years and do understand there are days that one "white-knuckles it" just to get through it. One time many years ago, I even went in the restroom, closed the stall door, and screamed as loud as I could, from the frustration! Hope your work stress reduces over the next few days and that you have more success. Take care and do hang in there. PearlGrace

One of my friends is same to you.She is working as a tele-saler,too.She has been working for at least a month,but she sold nothing.Fortunately,she is still working there.Her boss said that if she coule sell one among 6 month,she would become the formal officer.She is undering stress now. Best wishes for my friend and you!~~~

Telemarketing is a crappy job. Get used to it. Most people will hang up on you. Some will even be verbally abusive. I did call center work where people called to order products. You have a higher rate of sales there, lol. But a lot of people get turned off by the upsells. And there are a lot of prank calls especially during summer break. You have to be a smooth talker to talk people into buying anything or they get suspicious. This is not a job to make big money off if you cold call people. Will they keep you if you don't sell anything? Probably not. This is a high turnover type of job. People burn out quickly. Few like it, lol. I wish you good luck!

Do you do this from home or at an actual workplace?