Tomorow's my first day at the new job!
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From: Madison, WI
Yes, it's a sales job.
No, I don't have to run between clients. Most of our business is done by phone, email and fax. Although I do "have" to go to some of the events we run (as if that's a bad thing) to sign up repeat business.
As for getting individuals tickets, that's not what I do. We do hospitality packages. For example the first project I'm working on is The Masters golf tournament. We rent out someone's estate right next to the course and set up three hospitailty tents in the back yard (it's a big house). A typical package includes a table in one of the tents with the client company's logo and a certain number of course badges. They get full VIP access to the course with said badges and can come and go from the course to the estate whenever they want. The tents have celebrity guests, 4-course gourmet meals, full bars, the works. Typically a company will bring anywhere from 5 to 30 of their best clients with them to events like this and it gives them a chance to have a bunch of their clients in a controlled environment.
I don't think the WWE is high up on our list of priorities.
h: But I don't do the planning anyway. Our operations department in the Chicago office does the legwork of actually getting the events set up.
I'm in training this week so I'm only there 9:30 to 3, then next week the actual work begins.
No, I don't have to run between clients. Most of our business is done by phone, email and fax. Although I do "have" to go to some of the events we run (as if that's a bad thing) to sign up repeat business.
As for getting individuals tickets, that's not what I do. We do hospitality packages. For example the first project I'm working on is The Masters golf tournament. We rent out someone's estate right next to the course and set up three hospitailty tents in the back yard (it's a big house). A typical package includes a table in one of the tents with the client company's logo and a certain number of course badges. They get full VIP access to the course with said badges and can come and go from the course to the estate whenever they want. The tents have celebrity guests, 4-course gourmet meals, full bars, the works. Typically a company will bring anywhere from 5 to 30 of their best clients with them to events like this and it gives them a chance to have a bunch of their clients in a controlled environment.
I don't think the WWE is high up on our list of priorities.
h: But I don't do the planning anyway. Our operations department in the Chicago office does the legwork of actually getting the events set up. I'm in training this week so I'm only there 9:30 to 3, then next week the actual work begins.