Being part of the ITL sales team is a fantastic job and there is certainly nothing boring about an average week.
Monday starts at Hamburg Airport collecting some of our International Trading Partners for technical training at our German office in Pinneberg. The training is designed to arm our Partners with the knowledge required to re-sell our products in their local markets, as well as how to service our product range through technical training from my colleagues in the customer support team. Training courses like this lead to one of the perks of a sales man – entertaining clients, so that evening we take all of the attendees into Hamburg for a nice meal!
Wednesday and after weeks of preparation I am on the autobahn on route to one of Europe’s most important vending shows in Cologne. As a member of the sales team you have to have no fear of travelling, be it by car, train or plane. Europe is fast becoming one big ‘local’ market so you cannot be afraid of travel. One of the main rules for trade shows is expect the unexpected so after struggling to find our exact stand location the booth is finally prepared and we are ready for the 3 day show which runs until 6pm on Saturday!
One thing you can rely on as a sales man is that there are no regular hours, especially during a show but it is all worth it after the first day with a record number of visitor enquiries from over 7 different countries.
Christian Czeskleba, Business Development Manager, Innovative Technology Germany 21/10/13
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