English class
May 12th 2010 08:30
Hi everybody! How are you? It’s been a long since my last publication… I’ve been really busy – I’m still busy haha – but last week I had to write a text for my English class and now I wanna show you the result, then you can correct my mistakes. (Please correct me!!! ^^)
"Hey, do you want a vacuum cleaner?"
Being a door to door sales agent isn’t pleasant at all. I’ve been doing this for almost two months.
When I applied for this work, as I was new in the business, my superior hired me for a trial period, during which I had to walk around the city and get some clients. But selling vacuum cleaners is not easy, and the worst was that I had to sell at least 2000 vacuum cleaners for week. As I thought at the beginning: it was going to be really troublesome.
At that time my chief had to travel abroad for a business meeting, so he just gave me the catalogues and ordered me to begin with the work. I had no idea what to do, far from it how to get clients. Then I thought about who could be a client… what kind of person or company would buy vacuum cleaners? After searching some information in the web, I wrote a list of 50 places where I could go to sell the products.
Those vacuum cleaners were new imported products, therefore they weren’t known in the country. I wanted to benefit from that and, in view of that, I tried to explain the main characters of the products. Besides they weren’t really expensive and, depending the price or size of the products, there were some promotions that made them more advisable.
The first week I went to 12 important companies which sold electrical appliances. They all were located in the city centre, so I had to travel a lot by bus and subway. They were huge buildings of more than 10 floors of offices. At the entrance there were always two or three receptionists who sent me to commercial areas, where I could talk with some employees and get their contacts. I was really nervous and eager, but at the end of the month I could sell almost a hundred vacuum cleaners. I was really happy, but my superior didn’t feel the same. He reprimanded me a lot. But he gave me another chance. So, here I am, still trying to sell these horrible vacuum cleaners, which (to tell the truth) don’t even work.
(sorry for this, It isn't my best essay - I really didn't know what to write about :S)
"Hey, do you want a vacuum cleaner?"
Being a door to door sales agent isn’t pleasant at all. I’ve been doing this for almost two months.
When I applied for this work, as I was new in the business, my superior hired me for a trial period, during which I had to walk around the city and get some clients. But selling vacuum cleaners is not easy, and the worst was that I had to sell at least 2000 vacuum cleaners for week. As I thought at the beginning: it was going to be really troublesome.
At that time my chief had to travel abroad for a business meeting, so he just gave me the catalogues and ordered me to begin with the work. I had no idea what to do, far from it how to get clients. Then I thought about who could be a client… what kind of person or company would buy vacuum cleaners? After searching some information in the web, I wrote a list of 50 places where I could go to sell the products.
Those vacuum cleaners were new imported products, therefore they weren’t known in the country. I wanted to benefit from that and, in view of that, I tried to explain the main characters of the products. Besides they weren’t really expensive and, depending the price or size of the products, there were some promotions that made them more advisable.
The first week I went to 12 important companies which sold electrical appliances. They all were located in the city centre, so I had to travel a lot by bus and subway. They were huge buildings of more than 10 floors of offices. At the entrance there were always two or three receptionists who sent me to commercial areas, where I could talk with some employees and get their contacts. I was really nervous and eager, but at the end of the month I could sell almost a hundred vacuum cleaners. I was really happy, but my superior didn’t feel the same. He reprimanded me a lot. But he gave me another chance. So, here I am, still trying to sell these horrible vacuum cleaners, which (to tell the truth) don’t even work.
(sorry for this, It isn't my best essay - I really didn't know what to write about :S)
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But selling vacuum cleaners is not easy, and the worst was that I had to sell at least 2000 vacuum cleaners for the week.
Being a door to door sales agent (or salesman)isn’t pleasant at all.
When I applied for this job, as I was new in the business, so my superior hired me for a trial period, during which I had to walk around the city and get some clients.
But selling vacuum cleaners is not easy, and the worst part was that I had to sell at least 2000 vacuum cleaners for the week.
As I thought at the beginning: it was going to be really troublesome (or hard).
At that time my chief had to travel abroad for a business meeting, so he just gave me the catalogues and ordered me to begin with the work (or just ordered me to start).
I had no idea what to do, far from it. I had no clue how to get clients.
After searching some information on the web, I wrote a list of 50 places where I could go to sell the products.
The vacuum cleaners were a new imported products, therefore they weren’t known in the country.
I wanted to benefit from that and, in view of that, I tried to explain the main characteristics of the products. (Vacuums is one product; vacuums and brooms would be plural, two products). ......I wanted to benefit from that and, in view of that, I tried to explain the main characteristics of the product. ..Or (I wanted to benefit from that and, In view of that, I tried to explain the main characteristics of the product). To say both sounds redundant.
Besides they weren’t really expensive and, depending on the price or size of the vacuum, there were some promotions that made them more sellable.
no llora <3: thanks a lot for the corrections! Yeah, it’s a sadly story haha that’s why I tried to make it a little funny at the end… I’m glad that you like it ^^