It is rude to never answer your phone; all you have to do is pick up and say not interested instead of letting people think there is a chance. Also you never know they may be a good fit if you would just give people a chance Zones is a great VAR the reps bend over backwards for their clients and they are just trying to get more... IT IS SALES PEOPLE feel lucky that our jobs have not been outsourced over seas you could be having habibi call asking you what you for your IT products

I just receved another call, from these clowns. Here is the problem. I do pick up the phone and say hello. They hang up, What is the point of the call? Do they get paid by the phone call regardless of a sale. I cannot figure out why they bother to call. Very strange comapny. They called today at 09:23 and stayed on line 3 seconds.

Zones is awesome. I dealt with them when i worked at Sikorsky, now I work at McKesson and having both of the companies i was in being Fortune 50, they really would go out of their way for us. Especailly the one salesmen. Shipping was always fast and always very professional. They never would call and harass me.

i worked for zones.. this is the skinny that will put everything into perspective.  they model their business after cdw because some of executive staff used to work there.  they have similar but far more aggressive requirements: 3.5 hrs of talk time and 80+ dials (in other words they are expected to have logged 3.5 hrs on the phone total per day and dialed numbers 80 times a day).  they are only given a limited amount of leads (thats what you customers are to them.. leads)  to call and the telemarketers calling you already know which ones are dead from the beginning.  that is why you are called every day, because if they dont call you they can get fired for not hitting their 80 dials or 3.5 hrs of talk time.  when i was there, i heard sr. management refer to the movie boiler room on several occasions and they expected us to use it as a road map to success.  that should be a red flag right there.  truth of the matter is, zones uses the same exact distributors as cdw, insight, pcmall and others and only has 2 of their own warehouses.  what that means to you is that their prices are no better than the competition to start out with.  if they beat cdw or anyone else, its because the poor account executive who is trying to get your business so he doesn't get fired or harassed by his immature sales manager will go under water with his pricing to get your business.

none of the account executives make any kind of real money because there is so much overhead.  1. they are resellers of resellers of resellers so their margin is very very narrow as it is.  2. they get paid 7% of whatever profit margin the make, not 7% of the total price of the product, 7% of the margin.   If they sell you 500 licenses of Microsoft for 100k, they get $1k profit.  out of that 1k they get paid $70.  most account executives consider that doing well.

most of your account executives are exactly like people say on the board.  they are friendly, want to do everything for the customer, and want lasting relationships.  but the management of this company is soo [***] backwards they hold the account executive back from doing so, sometimes on purpose.

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